LEADERSHIP & THE BRAIN DESIGN

No creature can fly with just one wing. Gifted leadership occurs where heart & head, feeling & thought meet. These are two kings that allow a leader to soar.

All leaders need enough intellect to group the specifics of the task & challenges at hand. However intellect alone will not make a leader, leaders execute a vision by persuading and by creating resonance. Artful use of humor typifies effective leadership, not a comedian sense of timing or huge comic repertoire.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DOMAIN &

ASSOCIATED COMPETENCIES

Personal competence- capabilities determines how we manage ourselves.

SELF AWARENESS

Emotional Self Awareness: -Reading one’s own emotions & recognizing their impact using gut sense to guide decisions.

Accurate Self-Assessments:- Knowing one’s strength & limits.

Self-Confidence:- A sound sense of one’s self worth & capabilities.

SELF MANAGEMENT

Emotional Self-Control:- Keeping disruptive emotions & impulses under control.

Transparency: - Displaying honesty & integrity, trust worthless.

Adaptability: - Flexibility in overcoming obstacles.

Achievement: - Drive to improve for excellence.

Initiative: - Readiness to act, seize initiative/opportunities.

Optimism: - Seeing upside in events.

Social Competence:- Capabilities determine how we manage relationships.

SOCIAL AWARENESS

Empathy: - Sensing other emotions understanding their perspective and taking active interest in their concerns.

Organizational Awareness: - Reading the currents, decision networks and politics at the organizational level.

Service: - Recognizing and meeting followers, clients or customers needs.

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Inspirational leadership:- Guiding and motivating with a compelling visions.

Influence: - wielding a range of tactics for persuasion.

Developing others: - Bolstering others abilities through feed back and guidance.

Change catalyst: - Initiating, managing and leading in a new direction.

Conflict management: - Resolving disagreements.

Building Bonds: - Cultivating & maintaining a web of relationships.

Teamwork & collaboration: - Cooperation and team building.

MY GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Think about different arenas of your life that are important such as family relationships work spirituality, physical health.

What are your core values in each of your areas?

 List out five or six principles that guide you in your work & life & think whether they are values that you truly live by or simply talk about.

 Now try writing a page or two about what you would like to do with the rest of your life. List all the things you want to do or experience before you die.

I am a capitalist in my mind but a socialist in my heart.