Leadership Module: Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment Reflection

This assignment is a reflective journal entry based on a student's emotional intelligence self-assessment. The student analyzes the results of the assessment, which measures self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. The reflection includes the student's agreement or disagreement with the assessment results, their understanding of the strengths and weaknesses revealed, and how these insights relate to their leadership capabilities. The student identifies areas for improvement, particularly in self-management and adaptability, and outlines steps they can take to enhance their emotional intelligence. The paper also references relevant academic sources to support the analysis and conclusions drawn from the self-assessment. The reflective piece highlights the importance of emotional intelligence in personal and professional development, particularly in the context of leadership and organizational success. The student acknowledges the importance of self-awareness and the need to improve in self-management to make better decisions and adapt to changes in a dynamic business environment.

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Emotional intelligence
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Emotional intelligence mainly deals with understanding oneself to be able to understand other
people. Emotional intelligence has four fundamental aspects that help in understanding oneself and
they include; self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. The
four aspects play a critical role in ensuring that I know myself better to evaluate my strengths and
weaknesses effectively. Managers need to possess the high emotional intelligence to understand
subordinates and lead them effectively to achieve the goals of the organization (Obradovic,
Jovanovic, Petrovic, Mihic, & Mitrovic, 2013). Self-assessment is vital in emotional intelligence as it
gives results of how someone fairs according to the four critical aspects of emotional intelligence. This
reflection is written to gauge my emotional intelligence self-assessment.
I agree with the results but not to a higher extent as I feel that I should have scored more on the
self-management as I feel that I do well when it comes to self-assessment. For self-awareness which is
the core aspect of emotional intelligence, I performed well and I agree with the results. The social

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awareness aspect I expected to score highly as I have good interactive skills which enable me to fit in
different social interactions. Relationship management I scored fairly and I completely agree with the
results.
From the results of the self-assessment test, I have learned that my self-awareness is great and I
know myself better. This translates to the fact that I am self-confident and my self-esteem is high. Self-
awareness also means I know my strengths and limitations and this is helpful as I know my weaknesses
and from there I can put measures to eliminate my limitations. Being self-aware also helps to avoid
disappointment as I set targets which I know I can achieve (Obradovic, Jovanovic, Petrovic, Mihic, &
Mitrovic, 2013). From the results, my self-management aspect is below average and this means my
self-control is not good and controlling my emotions is difficult and I cannot hide my emotions when
there is a need to do so especially when making decisions. The results also suggest I am not adaptable
and I take long to adjust to new experiences and this is a bad aspect as organizations keep on evolving
and changing and I am not flexible enough to accommodate the changes. Low self-management also can
means that I am not honest and I have low integrity and that is not one of the characteristics of a good
leader in any organization (Shooshtarian, Ameli, & Amini Lari, 2013). From the test results, I am not
initiative and from the articles which I have read, poor initiative means I cannot seize opportunities
when they arise and if I cannot do so, the organization will not thrive due to not exploiting the available
opportunities which arise.
Social awareness helps me to fit effectively in different social situations as from the test results I
have above average rating. According to different authors of organization behavior, high social
awareness means I have high social skills which enable me to adjust myself to fit in different situations
and also care about the needs of others (Batool, 2013). My relationship management skills are average
meaning that I can inspire and motivate people in the organization to achieve their targets. This is
achieved by having a positive attitude, good communication, and persuasive skills to convince other
people to perform better in the organization.
The self-assessment has pointed out the areas which I need to improve on to improve my
professional practice. I should work on my self-management aspect to improve my self-control and be
able to control my emotions to make good decisions that are not influenced by emotions (Pinos,
Twigg, Parayitam, & Olson, 2013). I should also learn how to be adaptive to be flexible to changes
that occur in a dynamic business environment. I should also attend training sessions to learn how to be

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initiative and how to exploit opportunities that present themselves. Exploiting opportunities will enable
me to generate more revenue for the business and also open up new business avenues.

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References
Batool, B. F. (2013). Emotional intelligence and effective leadership. Journal of business studies
quarterly, 4(3), 84.
Obradovic, V., Jovanovic, P., Petrovic, D., Mihic, M., & Mitrovic, Z. (2013). Project managers’
emotional intelligence–a ticket to success. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 74,
274-284.
Pinos, V., Twigg, N. W., Parayitam, S., & Olson, B. J. (2013). Leadership in the 21st century:
The effect of emotional intelligence. Electronic Business, 12(1), 61-74.
Shooshtarian, Z., Ameli, F., & Amini Lari, M. (2013). The effect of labor's emotional
intelligence on their job satisfaction, job performance and commitment. Iranian Journal
of Management Studies, 6(1), 27-43.