So, what is EI?
I suggest that EI is the ability to effectively manage ourselves and our ablity to effectively manage our relationships with others.
In taking a closer look at the self management aspects of EI, the 3i Leader must:
- be self-aware, reading their own emotions and recognising their impact upon others
- keep disruptive emotions and impulses under control
- have the drive to improve performance to meet inner standards of excellence
- display honesty, intergrity and trustwrothiness
- accurately assess their own strengths and weaknesses
- possess a healthy self-confidence and a sound sense of their own self-worth and capablities
- demonstrate flexibility, adapt to changing situations and overcome obstacles
- be ready to act and seize opportunities
- be optimistic and see the positives in events
- possess empathy, be able to sense others' emotions, understand the perspectives of others and take an active interest in the concerns of others.
- possess an ability to recognise and meet the needs of others through a willingness to serve
- proactively invest in peoples development through guidance, mentoring, coaching and feedback
- possess the ability to read groups and organisations, understand the politics and the informal factors influential in key decison making
- be tactful but assertive in order to influence and persuade for the benefit of others and the wider good
- healthily cultivate and maintain a network of realtionships
- guide, motivate and inspire through communicating a compelling vision
- judge events and situations and know when it's time to lead in a new direction
- foster cooperation, collaboration and building the ''team''
- resolve disagreement and damaging conflict in a timely manner
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