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Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional intelligence serves an important role in leadership. Emotional intelligence is a concept that many people may not know exist when thinking about how qualified a person may be for a job. In this paper, there are three main objectives; to define and point out the differences between emotional intelligence and traditional intelligence, identifying why emotional intelligence can be learned, and identifying the relationships between emotional intelligence and leadership/motivation. I will finish with an examination of my encounters with managers exhibiting low and high levels of emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence can differ from traditional conceptions of intelligence in several ways. Traditional intelligence is typically …show more content…

In this essay, the author

  • Explains that emotional intelligence serves an important role in leadership. it's a concept that many people may not know exists when thinking about how qualified someone may be for jobs.
  • Explains that emotional intelligence differs from traditional conceptions of intelligence in several ways. traditional intelligence has an iq number that is fixed and cannot grow.
  • Explains that they believe that emotional intelligence can be learned, and that their work experience in health care is why they are at the levels now.
  • Explains the relationship between emotional intelligence and motivation. motivation is thought of as the initiation, intensity, and persistence of humans.
  • Explains that they have encountered managers that exhibit high and low levels of emotional intelligence.
  • Opines that the job experience was completely opposite of what they have just described. they felt more motivated and wanted to learn more. this manager really got to know them, which made them trust their leadership.
  • Explains that emotional intelligence outweighs traditional iq numbers to determine how qualified a person is.

The emotional intelligence test I took was composed of four different categories; self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, and relationship management. Each of these categories are scored out of 10 points. I scored the following in each category: self-awareness 7, self-management 9, social-awareness 7, and relationship management 8. I do believe there is a value in focusing on working to increase one’s emotional intelligence. I was not surprised that my scores were high, and I feel that my work experience in health care is why they are at the levels they are now. I think that as I continue through my career, I will continue to increase my understanding of self-awareness and …show more content…

I will start with discussing the impacts of the manager that exhibited the low levels of emotional intelligence first. In terms of the overall job, there would be some days that I would not want to be there. While there were some degrees of encouragement, there was just as much discouragement because the manager never made the effort to help out. If they did try to help out, it would cause more frustration because they didn’t know the entire workflow. This manager didn’t have the best communication style, and there would be times that I felt like I couldn’t approach them. Furthermore, there would be times that it felt like the manager was handing out tasks just because they didn’t feel like doing them or didn’t know how to do them. With this manager, you could tell that the overall behavior of the employees was sort of on edge and

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