The purpose of this discussion is to learn about barriers to leadership and how self-awareness of one’s own emotional intelligence can help us learn skills to overcome those barriers.
Effective leaders must know themselves, excel at critical tasks, demonstrate emotional intelligence and display strong character traits. In your required readings, you learned that leaders often sabotage their own levels of personal and professional success due to emotionally unintelligent behavior and self-imposed barriers to leadership.
The six self-imposed barriers to leadership outlined in Chapter 2 of the text are listed below:
Overemphasizing personal goals as opposed to what is best for the organization
Being overly distracted by own self-image
Turning the competition into enemies
Believing that a leader must lead alone
Being too patient in various circumstances and not taking initiative when needed
Overcoming self-doubt
Directions:
Prior to posting your initial question in Packback, complete the Emotional Intelligence Inventory provided in your textbook at the end of Chapter 2, Appendix 2. D, and reflect on your specific results. (You do not need to submit a copy of the actual questionnaire or your results).
Consider what you have learned from your emotional intelligence inventory results and apply it to at least two self-imposed barriers to leadership (see list above and cited in Chapter 2) you have encountered or are most likely to encounter in your professional work. How will you use your emotional intelligence to overcome these barriers?
When responding to classmates, discuss how their barriers are different or similar to your own barriers.
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