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The Leader's Edge - May 2016
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Emotional Intelligence Part II: Moving from the self to the social
While understanding yourself and how you react to certain situations and emotions is an extremely important facet of Emotional Intelligence (EQ), understanding others and building and managing healthy relationships should not be forgotten when seeking to enhance your EQ. 'No man is an island unto himself."... you must develop your awareness and management skills of both your inner self and your social self.
Many of us are planting our gardens time of year and just as you would learn the needs and preferences of the vegetables you are going to plant and then continue to tend, so must you learn the needs and emotional context of the people around you and cultivate your relationships with them. We live in a world where social collision is a minute to minute event and realizing what lies beneath the emotional, political, verbal and non-verbal cues of your colleagues can help foster the cultivation of healthy relationships. Social awareness and relationship management create the external front of emotional intelligence and support your overall effectiveness as a leader.
It is important to note, however, that the self examination and management that you practiced in April is far from over. In fact, we encourage you to continually reevaluate your understanding of what makes you tick emotionally and consider how those emotions impact your actions. Remember, you are constantly evolving, so committing to continual self examination will not only allow you to adapt to change but cope with it with healthy and productive emotional habits.
If you missed it, or would like to visit last months newsletter and self coaching on Emotional Intelligence: Part I
click here.
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May Leadership Maturity Theme: Emotional Intelligence
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Not familiar with our Leadership Maturity Model? Well, it's at the core of everything we do. Depending on whether you or your team member is entry level, new to your organization, or a senior level executive, there are core competencies that are necessary for successful progression on the Leadership Climb. These leadership competencies, defined by our team of seasoned leaders and coaches in the MSBCOACH Leadership Maturity Model, help to create the backbone of the way we coach and train the leaders we work with everyday.
Learn more here...
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Emotional Intelligence
The fourth competency that we are going to explore is in the Ground
level. This means it is a foundational competency needed by everyone on their Leadership Climb. We believe that Emotional Intelligence encompasses skills that support and enable the development of the rest of the leadership competencies and leaders will continue to developing these skills throughout their leadership journey.
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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.
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Emotional Intelligence Whitepaper Highlight:
Trust in leadership is on the decline. What is most concerning is that trust is the basis for all positive human interaction, either in the workplace or in our personal lives. Without trust collaboration and communication deteriorates, employees are less likely to bring innovative solutions or thoughts to the table, and productivity declines. All of this eventually leads to employees who are not engaged and a workplace that becomes toxic to be in.
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Emotional Intelligence Blog Highlight:
When you think of doing a stakeholder analysis, doesn’t it seem a little mid-20th century? When you look at it, after all is said and done, isn’t it really just names? Scrawled black and white names hanging there on the page in front of you with no depth whatsoever. However, there something much, much more going on behind each and every name on that page. Every one of those colleagues, every one of those team members, has an emotional makeup that pushes them to make all sorts of decisions, both logical and illogical. Those humans, every individual named on that page, are flesh, blood, and bones so why not take that fact into consideration the next time you perform a stakeholder analysis?
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To explore more of our resources on Emotional Intelligence, click
here.
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Upcoming Webinar Event:
Become a Champion of Change
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Date: June 8, 2016 Time: 10:30 AM EST Cost: Free
Most of us like the idea of being the champion of something that interests us or championing a cause that we are passionate about. We will endure the hard work and set-backs because we believe in what we are doing. I'm willing to bet that your organization is looking for some champions!
How would you like to be the Change Champion in your organization? Why, you ask? Change, especially organizational change, requires more than management or even leadership at times. Change will be most effective and lasting if there are people who believe in it and are passionate about it. Change needs someone who will champion it and nurture its development.
If you want more effective change, become a Change Champion! In this webinar we will: • Define the role of the Change Champion • Create effective communication strategies • Identify the early adopters, hiders, resistors and lagers • Discuss ways to engage and onboard others into the change
Register Now
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