2. Emotional Intelligence: The Next Competency in Leadership Dennis Ondrejka, Ph.D., RN, COHN-S/CM Associate Professor Denver School of Nursing, Denver, CO goalquestinc@comast.net

3. Objectives  Develop understanding for what is meant by EI and why it is a critical competency for current and future leaders  Provide the participants an opportunity to practice the development of EI  Explore and examine an experiential awareness for the five EI domains

4. Subjectives  Internalize a sense of value for EI as a professional competency  Become more aware of how it works and doesn’t work in ones life  Have some awareness of why resistance presents itself related to EI

5. Attributes of EI  The presenter needs to be more upfront about his/her beliefs for the group  It is difficult to facilitate such learning because many systems are in place to keep if from occurring easily  There is risk for the instructor  Barriers will appear that are powerful and come from a person’s inner security.

6. Definitions of EI  (1998) EI is the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in us and in our relationships Goleman  (1999) EI is observed when a person demonstrates the competencies that constitute self-awareness, self- management, social awareness, and social skills at appropriate times and ways in sufficient frequency to be effective in situations. Boyatzis, Goleman, and Rhee

7. Domains of EI Past and Present 1995-1998  Knowing Your Emotions  Managing Your Emotions  Recognizing Emotions in Others  Handling Relationships  Motivating Oneself 1999 to present  Self-awareness  Self-regulation  Motivation  Empathy  Social Skills

8. Why EI is Important  Rigidity and Poor Relationship building is the key executive failure  Trained incapacity  Need Intuition to be expert  IQ accounts for 4% of real world success  Physiological issues  It accounts for highly successful leaders

9. Barriers to Integrating EI  Habits  Fear  Low Levels of self-love  Physiological barriers  Rejecting the Idea that one can calibrate emotions  Never reaching the valuing level of understand of EI  No subconscious integration

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