Leadership: Emotional Intelligence, Stress, and Team Dynamics Report

This report delves into various facets of leadership, beginning with an exploration of emotional intelligence (EI) and personal strengths, such as motivation and self-awareness. It identifies key EI strengths in effective leaders, including motivation, relationship management, and inspiring others. The report then examines personal and work-related stressors, offering strategies for mitigation through public transport, setting priorities, and social engagement. It addresses emotional triggers and past reactions, proposing constructive emotional responses for adaptive and flexible leadership styles. The report also outlines methods for addressing employee performance issues, including open communication, conflict resolution, and fostering a positive work environment. It concludes by discussing the impact of emotional stress on employee performance and the importance of creating discussion forums to encourage open communication. References to support the claims are provided at the end of the report.

Running head: LEADERSHIP
Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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1.
My emotional strengths are enthusiastic, self awareness as well as motivated. The
strength that I choose is motivation as this helps in being motivated with small rewards and
recognitions that is received from the workplace and this can have huge positive effect on the
work that is performed by me as well.
It is important for the leaders as the motivational factor will help them in motivating
the employees and this will have positive impact on the efficiency and productivity of the
organization as well.
2.
Five EI strengths about the best leader that I have met are as follows:
Proper motivation as this helps in gaining positive results for the long term success
and this will help in gaining competitive advantage as well
Proper management of relationship is essential in nature as this helped me in
maintaining proper relationship with others (Harris 2015)
Inspiring is another strength that helps in inspiring others as to perform better in the
different kinds of task (Doh, Jonathan and Narda 2014)
Proper understanding is essential in nature as this will help in understanding the
nature of human beings and judge accordingly (Johnston, Mark and Greg 2016)
Proper expression of different emotions is essential as this will help in expressing the
different thoughts easily (Klenke 2016)
My team leader worked in a private organization and she was very vibrant in nature as
well. She used to motivate me a lot in performing the activities that I felt is tough in
nature. She always helped me and appreciated me in the tasks performed by me.

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3.
Five stressors in personal life
Commitments towards study
Health issues of family member
Expectations of family
Stability in financial factors
Risks in driving car
Five stressors in work life
Being late to office
Long hours of work
Meeting deadlines of clients
Damage of reputation
Maintaining proper staff relationship (Donate, Mario and Jesús 2015)
4.
Five stressors in personal life
Commitments towards study *R
Health issues of family member
Expectations of family
Stability in financial factors *C
Risks in driving car *E
Five stressors in work life
Being late to office *E

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Long hours of work
Meeting deadlines of clients
Damage of reputation *R
Maintaining proper staff relationship *C
5.
The stressor in my personal life can be eliminated by travelling in public transport and
this can reduce the stress. In my work life, the risk of relationship with clients can be reduced
by setting priorities and understand the importance of different meetings as well. I have to
participate in different activities in the office as this will help in bonding socially.
6.
a.
Three emotional triggers:
Conversations in relationship
Compliance as to please individuals
Disappointment from peers as well as mentors
b.
In the past, there were various relationship memories and emotions and I used to get
very emotional and sensitive in such cases. I had no clue about what to answer in such
situations and I used to be quiet as well. This is the way I used to react in the past when such
situations raised.
c.

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I used to value my relationships previously but such long term relationships came to
sudden end without any kind of warning as well. Therefore, there is re surfacing of the
memories and events that has been taken place previously that I valued the most.
d.
The constructive emotional response can be drawn from past experiences that was
challenging in nature. Proper initiative had to be taken, had to be more organized in nature as
this will help in increasing the accepted responsibility as this will hold me accountable in the
errors that has been committed by me.
7.
I can exhibit adaptive as well as flexibility in the leadership style with the help of
incorporating different changes in order to receive a desired outcome. I have to organize
different meetings of the team members as this will help me in conducting a proper
discussion on the methods of performance as well as proper incorporation of the new
protocols as well as procedures around the different weaknesses as well as strengths. This
particular change in the style of the leadership will be the most desired as well as effective
approach for the whole team as well as for the individual team members.
8.
a.
I will directly ask that particular employee about the incident that has been faced by
him/her wherein I have observed that the other member of the team was aggressive in nature
and I will check the feeling that has made the employee upset. I will assure the employee that
he/she can discuss anything and about any kind of matter with me that makes them feel upset

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or troubled. I will properly set a meeting and discuss about the incidents properly as this will
help in providing a clear vision on the incident that has taken place.
b.
The effect would have negative impact on the particular employee as the employee
will lose faith and trust over the leader and they will never talk with the leader in the future as
well. There will be compromising attitude in the confidence of the employees and this will
place the employee in the previous position as well with more stress as they will feel the
leader is exploitative as well as unscrupulous in nature as well (Renko et al. 2015).
9.
a.
When an employee is not able to perform the duties effectively, the employees can be
more stressed as well as anxious in nature and there will be negative role in the role. It can
cause issues in other emotional as well as metal stress for the employee. The emotional stress
can cause anger and frustration and this can have huge impact on the climate of the workforce
(Paustian et al. 2014). There can be impact on the relationship if the behavior of the employee
is not acceptable by the other members in the team. This kind of issues in the workplace can
become a new norm in workplace and this will impact the productivity as well as efficiency
of the workplace. The mental condition of the employee can cause heavy workload as this
can increase the errors as well as deficit in the decision making process and the performance
will be impacted.
b.
I have different strengths that is I am visual learner and the workplace can get proper
benefit as the presentation skills will help in making others understand the different subjects.

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The consistency as well as expertise is assured and this will help in driving good results as
well.
The second strength is whenever I feel tired, I take a small break and release my stress
by listening to songs and this will encourage performance and effectiveness. This is essential
in the workplace as monotonous work can be boring and hence small break can be essential
in making the work effective in nature.
Lastly, proper forums has to be created for discussion as this will help the workplace
in providing importance to all the views and this will help me in encouraging the
communication of the members effectively as well (Birasnav 2014).

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