Emotional and Cultural Intelligence

Emotional and
cultural Intelligence

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Explanation of the ways self awareness as well as continuous self development help in
fulfilling role as successful leader or manager in future..............................................................1
Two separate critical incidents to reflect on findings and implications from self analysis toolkit
......................................................................................................................................................3
Summarising major strengths and weakness as well as comments on patterns of behaviours
which have emerged from self analysis.......................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Hughes (2016) defines cultural as well as emotional intelligence as major terms that are
widely used in business as well as management programmes. Cultural intelligence is defined to
the ability for recognising addition to adapting towards cultural differences in programs related
to business and management. Similarly, emotional intelligence refers to potentiality to
understand, utilise together with managing own emotions positively for relieving stress,
overcoming challenges, communicating effectively, defusing conflicts, etc to attain career or
personal objectives.
The project demonstrates about critical understanding and ways self awareness as well as
continuous development help to fulfil role as successful leader or manager in future. Further, it
includes two critical incidents for reflecting on findings and implications from two toolkit related
to self analysis. At last, it summarises major strengths and weaknesses addition to comments on
behaviour patterns which have emerged from self analysis.
MAIN BODY
Explanation of the ways self awareness as well as continuous self development help in fulfilling
role as successful leader or manager in future
According to Gallo (2020), self awareness is defined as awareness about own personality
and individuality. It is among key elements in emotional intelligence which helps in
identification and management of emotions and influencing others' emotions. It is a cognitive
process that includes integration of information from external reality as well as personal
experience. As a leader, self awareness helps me in distinguishing subjective along with
emotional awareness about self knowledge through which a path is created to meet roles as
successful leader in coming period. It also assist in exploring gaps and issues in skills to lead
matters properly. Furthermore, to assess existing situation of a person or leader, self awareness
comprises competence to ascertain their future state as well as setting realistic objectives for
future. Through adequate self awareness, a leader work with more willingness and participate in
multiple activities when they have knowledge regarding requirements of such type of
development. It is well said that self aware leaders constantly looking to improve and recognise
strengths, hidden biases and limitations so that all of their roles are effectively implemented to
gain success to meet roles in future. For a leader, there is no room to understand others as well as
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