Kim Woods

Assignment: Professional Leadership Journal: Emotional Intelligence

This week’s self-assessment, located in your text (Chapter 4, p. 133) (attached PDF), is a brief individual leadership assessment entitled “Emotional Intelligence.” Understanding one’s emotional intelligence may increase a leader’s effectiveness in interacting with others to achieve organizational goals.

For this Professional Leadership Journal, take a few minutes to work through the instrument. As a scholar-practitioner in health care administration, what may the test reveal about your emotional intelligence in terms of leadership?

The Assignment (3 paragraphs):

· Explain new insights gained based on your results of the Emotional Intelligence assessment.

· Explain how these new insights might impact your current or future role as a health care administration leader.