Emotional Intelligence and its Impact on Public Health Leadership

This article discusses the insights gained from an emotional intelligence assessment and how they can impact the role of a public health leader. It highlights the importance of emotional intelligence in understanding, motivating, and engaging teams in the field of public health.

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Emotional Intelligence
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1. New insights gained on the basis of the results of the Emotional Intelligence assessment
I have scored 48 out of 50 in the overall emotional intelligence assessment of mine. As
per the insights that I have gained on the basis of my results of emotional intelligence
assessment, I have realized that I have several social skills that is highly favourable for my
emotional intelligence. I can communicate effectively with my peers and adults and at the
same time, I am a very cooperative individual as a team member. I have deep concern and
care for the members in my community and I believe that these social skills of mine will help
me in preparing myself for the success in the field of adulthood and transition. Furthermore, I
am highly self-motivated person and at the same time, hold intense empathy for others. I set
challenging goals and take measured and reasonable risks for achieving my goals. Also, I am
result oriented as I highly focus on the outcomes rather than the process that I use for
producing the very outcome. I am a dependable person as I am honest and I never hesitate to
admit my mistakes whenever I do so and also, confront the unethical actions of others. With
the same, I always try to stand for what I believe and can go a long way for achieving my
goals. By saying that I hold intense empathy for others I means that I always ensure that I pay
complete attention to the emotions, feelings and reactions of others. From the rating, I found
that I have achieved 9 on 9 on the subscale of empathy. This means that I recognise the
emotions of others and I am able to put myself in the shoes of others. I understand the reality
and perspective of others very effectively. Moreover, in the subscale of managing emotions
and self-regulation, I have achieved 8 on 9. I believe that self-management and self-
regulation are among the three significant areas of personal skills that one should have and
they make up the emotional intelligence of a person. Hence, I can say that I have a
remarkable ability of regulating and controlling my emotions.

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2. The way the new insights might impact my role, or future role, as a public health leader
Emotional intelligence is very important in every occupation and service. It is the innate
ability of a person that helps him in understanding others while perceiving his own emotions
along with the emotions of the other people. As a scholar-practitioner in public health
leadership, I believe that my skills in emotional intelligence will help me understand,
motivate and engage my team in my professional career. According to Mirkiv (2018), “More
than prescriptions, medicine involves communication, tolerance, flexibility, listening, hard
work and a passion for the practice.” Emotional Intelligence is very important for me as this
will help me in dealing well with the conflicts in the future and at the same time, in creating
the workable solutions to the complicated problems. Also, as claimed by Foster et al. (2015),
emotional intelligence skills “are grounded in the personal competence and upon this are
build the skills for social competence. These skills include the skills of social awareness and
relationship management. I also believe that my EI skills will significantly impact the culture
of my organisation as a whole. It is a critical building block that will lead me towards success
as it will help me in depending upon my sheer skills and intelligence for managing the
different complexities that are inherent in the contemporary healthcare. It is to mention that
healthcare as a field is cast against a background of patient and family anxiety. It is therefore,
often considered to be challenging diagnosis and treatment. Intellect is therefore highly
helpful. I think that in practice, the leaders could get the things that are done by means of
working through and with others. On one hand, “the most senior clinical leaders in the field of
healthcare might be marginally involved in the practical clinical setting, most of the
healthcare leaders coordinate or oversee the direct-care efforts of their organizations”
(Bradberry, 2015).” At all the levels, leaders set Emotional Intelligence culture in their
enterprise and this culture directly influence the relationships between patient, staff morale,
staff turnover, relationships with colleagues.

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Furthermore, Roth et al. (2018) in this context have also claimed that emotional
intelligence is a very strong tool that helps in building or bridging the gap and developing
alliances along with repairing the relationship that are damaged. The leaders in the public
health and healthcare need to realise the challenging nature of the distribution of scarce
resources in the tough times. With the same, it is also to mention that relationship can turn
into frayed one because of the existence of internal competition for those opportunities,
resources and recognition. Notwithstanding this fact, the same people or group that compete
in a particular arena often require to partner in another or at different time to survive. The
potential of mending the relationships is especially more important to the scholar-practitioner
in public health leadership in the contemporary rapidly changing world of healthcare
(Petrides, 2017). Hence, the skills of EI is that I possess would be highly benefitting me in
my future. I will be able to communicate effectively with my peers and adults and at the same
time, I can play the role of a very cooperative individual as being a team member. Also, the
social skills related to emotional intelligence of mine will help me in preparing myself for the
success in the field of adulthood and transition. With the same, the flexible nature of mine
will also help me in adjusting with my peers and my patients’ emotions, behaviour and
thoughts to a very dynamic circumstances that are unfamiliar or unpredictable. This will also
help me in building healthy and understanding relationship with my patients so that they can
trust me with their issues and I can work well in serving people, which I considered is my
duty as a health care practitioner.

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Mirkov, S. (2018). Teamwork for innovation in pharmacy practice: from traditional to
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Petrides, K. V. (2017). Intelligence, emotional. Reference Module in Neuroscience and
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Roth, C. G., Eldin, K. W., Padmanabhan, V., & Friedman, E. M. (2018). Twelve tips for the
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