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Welcome to the Leadership Climb:
A Self Coaching Journey to Leadership Maturity
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April Leadership Maturity Theme:
Emotional Intelligence
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Leaders with Emotional Intelligence have developed a combination of self-awareness, self- management, social awareness, and relationship management that allows them to effectively identify and manage their own emotions and the emotions of others to enhance relationships and leadership effectiveness.
To explore more of our resources on Emotional Intelligence, click here.
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There are a few things you can do to get the most benefit from your self-coaching. We recommend recording your answers to assessment below in a designated "Leadership Climb Self Coaching" journal or notebook. Your review and reflection on your answers now and in the future will be key to your continued growth.
This week is about creating a plan to improve upon your Emotional Intelligence. It will be helpful to revisit your self coaching assessment that you did last week. Again, you may choose one or more of the following characteristics to investigate over the next 4 weeks.
EQ is a combination of self-awareness, emotional self-management, social awareness and relationship management. Given that each of these components is equally important, we want to take the time to investigate them thoroughly by focusing on it in both April and May. April will focus internally on self-awareness and emotional self-management, while May will focus externally on social awareness and relationship management.
If you missed Week 1 - Assessment - click here to find the questions to catch up!
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Self - Awareness &
Self-Management
Self-awareness is all about recognizing and understanding how your own emotions both affect your interactions with others and impact on others' emotional state.
Recognize and understand your emotions so you have the power to control them. This kind of self awareness makes it possible for you to manage your emotions and reactions instead of them ruling you.
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As you begin to build a plan of action for your personal Emotional Intelligence, we invite you to explore other thought leaders on different ways you can approach this:
In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.
By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:
Lead Change Group: 5 Reasons Why Emotional Intelligence Is Critical For Leaders
When asked to identify the necessary traits for leaders, most would propose answers that fall within a wide range of topics.
Charisma, purpose, determination
– these are just a few of the traits that are typically used to define a leader. However, many leaders have a single quality in common. In short, what distinguishes the best leaders from the majority is their level of emotional intelligence.
Anyone trying to come up to speed on emotional intelligence would have a pretty easy time of it since the concept is remarkably recent, and its application to business newer still. The term was coined in 1990 in a research paper by two psychology professors, John D. Mayer of UNH and Peter Salovey of Yale. Some years later, Mayer defined it in HBR this way:
From a scientific (rather than a popular) standpoint, emotional intelligence is the ability to accurately perceive your own and others’ emotions; to understand the signals that emotions send about relationships; and to manage your own and others’ emotions. It doesn’t necessarily include the qualities (like optimism, initiative, and self-confidence) that some popular definitions ascribe to it.
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Self Coaching - Creating a Plan:
As you re-read your assessment from week one, we encourage you to begin a plan of action to become more focused on your Emotional Intelligence...
Self- Awareness
- Identify one or two areas of Self-Awareness that have recently been a problem (unable to identify emotions in the moment, lacking focus/ freezing under pressure, unexpected emotional reactions, etc.)
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Think of the past few times this was an issue. What are the commonalities in the situations?
- What are some underlying reasons that this may be an issue for me?
- As I reflect on the resources provided, what are some strategies that I can use to try to develop this skill?
- Identify 3 opportunities this week that I will conciously observe the situation and try out my new strategies.
- How will I know if they have been successful or not?
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Self-Management
- Identify one or two areas of Self-Management that have recently been a problem (emotional outbursts toward others, poor decision making under pressure or in emotional situations, loosing patience, letting emotions impact productivity, avoiding difficult conversations, etc.)
- Think of the past few times this was an issue. What are the commonalities in the situations?
- What are some underlying reasons that this may be an issue for me?
- As I reflect on the resources provided, what are some strategies that I can use to try to develop this skill?
- Identify 3 opportunities this week that I will conciously observe the situation and try out my new strategies.
- How will my work or personal relationships or performance be impacted?
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MSBCOACH Leadership Maturity Model
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Depending on whether you (or your team member) are at the executive, mid-manager level, supervisory, entry, new to organization or new to role level, there are core competencies that are necessary for successful progression on the Leadership Climb.
The leadership competencies as defined in our MSBCOACH Leadership Maturity Model create the backbone of our coaching, training and the we work we do everyday.
Learn more here...
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If you find that your commitment to develop your leadership maturity is high, but your proficiency or resources lower than you'd like, our coaches can help you more carefully assess and develop your skills.
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