Leadership: Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence Report

This report delves into the critical role of self-awareness and emotional intelligence in effective leadership. It emphasizes the importance of understanding one's own emotions and how they influence others, particularly within a nursing leadership context. The report highlights that self-awareness is fundamental to leadership, enabling better decision-making, stress management, and motivation, ultimately leading to improved team effectiveness. It explores the benefits of self-reflection, identifying individual strengths and weaknesses, and provides references that support the concepts of emotional intelligence and its impact on leadership performance. The report underscores the need for leaders to cultivate self-awareness to enhance their ability to manage and motivate their teams effectively.

Assignment 4th
Behaviors with strong self-awareness within the context of leading and
managing groups
An effective leader can be flexible, or empathetic, but must possess an understanding of multiple
leadership skills. But, the leadership skills which is most desired from a leader is the ability to
understand from the emotional intelligence perspective (Nicola S.Schutte John M.Malouff Lena
E.Hall Donald J.Haggerty Joan T.Cooper Charles J.Golden Liane Dornheim, 1998). Self-
awareness being the element of emotional intelligence creates the ability within the individual
concerned for understanding the feelings along with the emotions and also as to how the
emotions might be influencing and affecting other who are around that particular individual.
Being a leader in nursing, requires self- awareness since, it helps to make the individual aware
and also understand the self- attitude which will cause to influence the team whom the nurse
leader is leading (Keri A.Pekaar Arnold B.Bakker Dimitrivan der Linden Marise Ph.Born, 2018).
Thus, it can be understood that, self- awareness creates the effectiveness in leadership and is only
focussed on the proper exercise of leadership and thus becomes a way for exploring the
individual personalities, with the value systems, along with the beliefs, and the natural
inclinations or the tendencies towards any particular things or happening. Every human being is
original and have various way to react to things or learn or accumulate information in a certain
way (Jordan, P. J., & Ashkanasy, N. M., 2006). So, the time if spent on self- reflection then it
will only help in gaining a better insight and will also help the individual to identify the
persistent gaps if any within the management skills so that the skills can be promoted towards the
achieving development of skills. Self- awareness is that skill which helps in identifying the
situations to make it most effective by assisting the decision- making through intuition and
thereby the stress gets managed and furthermore causes motivation not only to the individual self
but also for other (John J. Sosik and Lara E. Megerian, 1999). Thus, the art of self- awareness
helps in exploiting the individual strength so that one can ideally deal and also cope with the
weaknesses if any persists at all.
References
John J. Sosik and Lara E. Megerian. (1999). Understanding Leader Emotional Intelligence and
Performance: The Role of Self-Other Agreement on Transformational Leadership
Perceptions. Group & Organization Management , 367-390.
Jordan, P. J., & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2006). Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Self-Awareness,
and Team Effectiveness. . In F. S. V. U. Druskat, Linking emotional intelligence and
performance at work: Current research evidence with individuals and groups (pp. 145-
163). Mahwah, NJ. US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
Keri A.Pekaar Arnold B.Bakker Dimitrivan der Linden Marise Ph.Born. (2018). Self- and other-
focused emotional intelligence: Development and validation of the Rotterdam Emotional
Intelligence Scale (REIS). Personality and Individual Differences, 222-233.

Nicola S.Schutte John M.Malouff Lena E.Hall Donald J.Haggerty Joan T.Cooper Charles
J.Golden Liane Dornheim. (1998). Development and validation of a measure of
emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 167-177.