I am confident in the results that I received from taking the self assessment that I possess
the emotional intelligence to be a successful leader. My self assessment results ranked me
moderate in self awareness, and high in self management, empathy, and social skills. All
four of these traits are very important to becoming an effective leader. The 2 personality
traits that will assist me becoming a more inclusive leader from the big five OCEAN
traits are conscientiousness and agreeableness. When it comes to conscientiousness I am
very self disciplined, dependable, hardworking and goal driven. When it comes to
agreeableness I am very trustworthy, helpful and easy to get along with. These two
personality traits are very portable and have proven to be very successful when working
with clients as a real estate agent. All of the effective leaders I have had in my life as
coaches, mentors and bosses have all had a balanced blend of intelligence and emotional
intelligence. Both of these factors allowed them to become confident leaders in their field
of leadership and were well liked and admired by everyone they worked with. They all
had the heart of a teacher and wanted to see me grow and achieve my goals. I think I
have the emotional intelligence to be a good leader. The assessment results show that I
have the ability to monitor the actions of myself and others effectively and use that
information as a guide to how I will act and respond to situations as they arise. Even
when I am faced with stressful or tense situations, I remain calm and gather facts before
acting. I am easily approachable and find that I work well with others from all
backgrounds.It is hard to pick just one of the OCEAN Traits, Intelligence components or
Emotional components. To be an effective leader you have to balance them all depending
on the situation. If I had to pick one, I think Neuroticism is important. Remaining calm
in a situation will make you approachable. If you lose your temper and fly off the handle,
it would damage working relationships. Again it isn't any more important than another, it
just depends on the situation. Interpersonal and Intrapersonal skills, trustworthiness and
other Emotional Intelligence components are just as important. If someone doesn't trust
you, then they will never buy off on your leadership.Reflecting back to the leadership of
a software integration project I was on, leadership was one-sided and the team was all
over the place. The project lead couldn't clearly convey what he wanted and was more
focused on getting something done on time rather than listening to the issues. Often times
when a new problem arose, he would show signs of irritation, play the blame game.
Additionally, one team member witnessed him talking about her in a negative manner to
another member of the team. He really didn't care how it got done, just that it was done
on time so he could meet his goal at his upcoming review. Several things could have
made him a better leader. Being sympathetic to the team, trustworthy, perception of his
actions and that of others, problem-solving skills and in general leadership skills that
would foster a positive outcome.Portable and Non-portable skills are important both are
just as important to possess. knowing what it takes to do the work (experience, and have
technical skills to get the work done is just as important. After taking the self assessment,
I am confident I can be a successful leader. I received high scores in self-awareness, self
management, empathy and social skills. Being able to understand your own emotions as
well as other peoples and how to communicate with each individuals based on their needs
is half the battle. I was always taught that leadership is 70% people and 30% process. As
time went by I realized how true that was. The hard part of being a leader isn’t
developing processes, it’s learning how to effectively communicate with your team. If one
can conquer that, then trust and relationships are built. People will want to work with you
to achieve the goals.
To be an inclusive leader you have to be self aware an open. With that being said, I
would say for me the most important big five ocean personality trait that would assist me
in being a more inclusive leader would be openness. You have to be open to other
peoples viewpoints and ideas in order to have a team that can effectively solve issues or
determine best practices.
When I think back about some of my past ineffective leaders, I don’t think it was just
one trait that caused them to be ineffective. Luckily I have worked under some great
leaders.
Based on my self-assessment I have the emotional intelligence to be a good leader. I rated
high on all the emotional intelligence sub-components for (self-awareness, self-
management, social awareness/empathy, and relationship management/social skills). I have
had the privilege to become a leader early in life to be able to learn from my mistake
and be mentored along the way to make me a successful leader.I think my personality
trait from the Big Five OCEAN personality traits would be empathy. I try to take the
time to understand others’ emotions and understand how to place myself in other people
shoes. I have the understanding diversity and can identify that people come from all sorts
of different backgrounds. I take pride in developing others and ensuring that no is left
behind that assist me in being a better inclusive leader.A common attribute that causes
leaders to be ineffective communication and not willing to be open to their employees.
This makes a leader ineffective because communication key to be successful with
completing task and being able to listen, share ideas, train other, and being a team player.
You will be considered unapproachable from your superiors, peer, and subordinates. I
think skills associated with being a inclusive leader should be portable and leaders should
be able take all the skills they have learned and adapt and continue to grow and share
this knowledge to make their team stronger.
My long-time mentor and friend has been working on my emotional intelligence. I am a
great leader, mentor and coach, a good supervisor but lack the empathy needed to perfect
mentoring and leadership. My VP once said "the place could be on fire and I'd never
know because you're always so calm and your face never shows emotion". Much to a
fault that worked for me and against me. Emotional intelligence is the ability to tap into
stress relief, and to overcome and diffuse challenges. In stressful modes I take over and
do it all on my own, I neglect the team and go solo and tend to harbor feelings. But I
am working on this, I'm getting better.Among the Big Five Ocean personality traits
openness would be my primary trait that makes me the more inclusive leader. I have
always appreciated having a diversity of people around the table. We can't all think, or
be the same. The diverse perspectives, opinions and cognitive backgrounds of a group is
more powerful! Ineffective leaders are one-sided and siloed, they don't 'play well' in a
team aspect. I had a supervisor like this and learned several hard lessons from her. Based
on my self assessment i do possess enough emotional intelligence to be a good leader.
Emotional intelligence insinuates to the knack to recognize and achieve one’s own
feelings, as well as the sentiments of others. Emotional intelligence is usually said to
incorporate a few skills: namely emotional awareness, or the ability to identify and name
one’s own emotions; the ability to harness those emotions and apply them to tasks like
thinking and problem solving; and the ability to manage emotions, which includes both
regulating one’s own emotions when necessary and helping others to do the same. The
emotionally intelligent are highly conscious of their own emotional states, even negative
ones from frustration or sadness to something more subtle. They are able to identify and
understand what they are feeling and being able to help manage that emotion. Because of
this, the emotionally intelligent have high self-confidence and are realistic about
themselves. A person high in emotional intelligence is not impulsive or hasty with their
actions. They think before they do. This translates into steady emotion regulation, or the
ability to reduce how intense an emotion feels. Taking anger or anxiety down a notch is
called down-regulation. The emotionally intelligent can shift gears and lighten mood, both
internally and externally. Based on my self-assessment I have emotional intelligence to be
a good leader. I believe that my emotion does not get in the way when it comes to my
profession. I even get impress on how at my previous job I had patience and how I acted
in professional way when we had an issue with patients. I think my personality trait from
the Big Five OCEAN personality traits would be conscientiousness, I like to plan things
and like to be very organized. I can also say that I can be a little perfectionist when it
comes to my job and like to ask questions when I am not sure about something before
making a decision. An attribute I consider ineffective leader would be lack of
communication and lack pf empathy. A skill for being inclusive leader in my opinion
would be share knowledge with employees and be open to new ideas from employees.
Communication will always be the key for a good leader and also a good listener who
can also learn from others. Based on the results from my self-assessment I believe that I
do have the emotional intelligence to be a successful leader. My results shows that I am
high in 3 out of the 4. I believe that I have what it takes to be a successful leader because
I have a high level of emotional intelligence giving me the ability to understand how
emotions can affect people. I am very aware of my own feelings too. The Big five
OCEAN personality trait that I think will assist me in being a more inclusive leader
would be Agreeableness. I chose that one because I have a lot of compassion and I am
one to put aside my interest for others. Anyone that knows me will agree that I am very
helpful, kind, considerate and generous and the list goes on but these are the traits that
would make me a great leader. A common attribute that all ineffective leaders that I have
came across possess selfishness and are quick to blame others rather than taking
accountability. Skills are very portable when being an inclusive leader in my opinion.
