Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

Overview For this Performance Task Assessment, you will have an opportunity to critically reflect on professional and personal leadership experiences. You will then examine these experiences in light of relevant, documented leadership best practices and theoretical frameworks covered so that you can identify your leadership and/or followership strengths and weaknesses and develop goals for improving your leadership skills and behaviors to attain your passion and purpose. This Assessment will collate topics and subjects from DL001 and DL002 with emphasis on the Business Skill for Good of emotional intelligence. Assessment Submission Length: Approximately 810 pages Instructions To complete this Assessment, do the following: Read the Foreword (pp. iiiviii) and Introduction (pp. 110), as well as one or more of the following excerpts to review examples of other business leaders stories of passion and purpose. Coleman, J., Gulati, D., & Segovia, W. O. (2012). Passion and purpose: Stories from the best and brightest young business leaders. Harvard Business School Publishing. Interview with David Gergen: Advisor to Four Presidents, Director of Harvards Center for Political Leadership, and Senior Political Analyst for CNN, pp. 4754 Globalization: Embracing the Global Generation, pp. 5560 People: Leading in a Diverse World, pp. 99138 Sustainability: Integrating Preservation and Profits, pp. 139170 Learning: Educating Tomorrows Leaders, pp. 197202 Moving Forward, pp. 243245 Capstone Interview With Nitin Nohira: Dean of the Harvard Business School, pp. 246253 In the DL003_Assessment_Template file, complete your work on your leadership profile, using your Pre-Assessment submission as a starting point and incorporating any feedback as appropriate. Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length. Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively. Important Information on Interpreting the Assessment Rubric (click to expand) Achievement vs. Mastery of the Competency Mastery of this Competency means that 80% or more of the rows have been assessed as Exceeds Expectations and no rows have been assessed as Does Not Meet Expectations. Achievement of this Competency means that all rows are assessed at Meets Expectations or above (but lower than the 80% threshold required for Mastery). Assessment of Individual Rubric Rows In order to achieve Meets Expectations for a particular row of the rubric, you must have adequately completed all criteria in that row. This means that you have addressed all required elements to the required level of quantity and/or quality. In order to achieve Exceeds Expectations for a particular row of the rubric, you must have adequately completed all criteria in the row, and in addition, your response must reflect a depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise. Examples of this includebut are not limited tothe following: You provide additional, specific, and/or particularly relevant examples to illustrate points made. You seamlessly incorporate your original thoughts and diverse, credible, and relevant academic sources, when applicable, to express your viewpoint or develop a persuasive argument. You demonstrate a deeper understanding of the subject that draws from discipline-specific knowledge and theory and incorporates the viewpoints of a diverse set of business and management thought leaders. You draw additional connections between multiple, complex topics to support your explanations. You are able to apply your knowledge in unique, creative, and/or innovative ways. You thoroughly break down concepts into simpler parts and use your understanding of business to make connections. Your analysis is insightful and original. You design processes, products, and/or solutions that are creative, high-quality, and innovative. You consider diverse perspectives and relevant social, ethical, and business-related issues when proposing new ideas or formulating judgments. All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring. This Assessment requires submission of an 8- to 10-page leadership profile. Save this file as DL003_firstinitial_lastname (for example, DL003_J_Smith). You may submit a draft of your assignment to the Turnitin Draft Check area to check for authenticity. When you are ready to upload your completed Assessment, use the Assessment tab on the top navigation menu. Important Note: As a student taking this Competency, you agree that you may be required to submit your Assessment for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted Assessment materials will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such materials. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Usage Policy posted on the Turnitin.com site. Leadership for Good Important Note: This Assessment features one of the Business Skills for Good that you will learn more about and develop throughout your MBA program. This skill, emotional intelligence, includes the five components, as identified by Goleman (2004), as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill. If you have not already done so, please review the following video: Video: Business Skills for Good: Emotional Intelligence (1:28) video Walden University, LLC. (2021). Business skills for good: Emotional intelligence [Video]. Walden University Brightspace. Transcript: Business Skills for Good: Emotional Intelligence (PDF) In recognition of your growth as a leader, you have been given the opportunity to join a professional leadership network. As part of your membership, you must create a unique leadership profile that focuses on your passion and your purpose for leadership, as well as your goals. This is your opportunity to present your leadership reflections and perspectives to others in your network and to create connections that may lead to professional experiences in the future. To prepare for this exercise, you should first engage in reflection. Self-reflection is an important skill in business, especially for a leader or an aspiring leader. There are a number of different models of reflection that can be utilized; however, one of the more commonly used models is the 5R Framework for Reflection (Bain, et al., 2002), which focuses on five defined stages of reflection: reporting, responding, relating, reasoning, and reconstructing. Using this framework will enable you to produce a critically engaging reflection based on your experiences. Refer to the following table for more information about the framework: 5R Stages Description Guidelines Reporting A brief descriptive account of the situation/topic What happened, what the situation/topic is Responding Your emotional/personal response to the situation/topic Your observations, feelings, questions about the situation/topic Relating Personal and theoretical understandings relevant to the situation/topic Making the connections between the situation/topic and your experience, skills, knowledge, and understanding Reasoning Your explanation of the situation/topic Explaining the situation/topic in terms of the significant factors, relevant theories, and experiences Reconstruction Drawing conclusions and developing a future actionable plan Your deeper level of understanding about the situation/topic that is used to reframe or reconstruct your future practice and further develop your understanding of professional practice (application) The 5R Framework of Self-Reflection Adapted from: Bain, J. D., Ballantyne, R., Mills, C., & Lester, N. C. (2002). Reflecting on practice: Student teachers’ perspectives. Post Pressed. As you reflect upon your learning and experiences so far, consider your strengths, weaknesses, skills, and the knowledge you have gained as a leader and a followerboth in the classroom and beyond. With those thoughts in mind, construct your leadership profile with the following sections, being sure to incorporate examples of personal experiences, as well as citations for relevant academic resources from the classroom, the library, and other appropriate scholarly sources. Click each of the items below for more information on this Assessment. Part 1: Perspectives on Leadership/Leadership Values For the first part of your leadership profile, you will describe how you can/will apply positive leadership skills in pursuit of social change, be it in your professional or personal life. Be sure to incorporate the following: Emotional Intelligence Analyze the importance of the five elements of emotional intelligence in being a strong leader: self-awareness, self-regulation, social skills, empathy, and motivation. Specifically: How do these elements affect the leader-follower relationship? How do they improve a leaders ability to promote change? Developing a Diverse and Inclusive Environment Analyze the interdependency of diversity and inclusion. Examine what diversity and inclusion look like in the workplace, as well as the benefits of having/developing a diverse working environment. Summarize how you have worked/will work as a leader to promote diversity and inclusion in your work environment. The Power of Networking Based on your personal and professional experiences, examine the relationship of establishing and maintaining a professional network to your own leadership. How can a strong network benefit both a rising leader and an established leader? How can the use of networks enhance ones ability to become an agent of positive social change? Part 2: Passion and Purpose for Leadership For the second part of your leadership profile, you will share your own passion and purpose story, similar to those from Passion and Purpose: Stories From the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders. Considering your self-reflection, your personal and professional experience, and the other ideas related to leadership that you have explored in your studies so far, address the following: Create a narrative describing your passion and the purpose you see for yourself. Be sure to address the following questions as you construct your narrative: What is most important to you in life? What do you want the focus of your professional life to be? How do you plan to (or currently) incorporate social responsibility and ethical decision making into your life and work? (LO 2.2) What kind of positive difference do you want to make in the world? Analyze how obtaining your degree at Walden will better equip you to pursue your passion and fulfill your purpose. Be sure to address the following in your analysis: How do your passion and purpose align to Waldens mission of positive social change? How does Waldens mission impact your experience as you study hereincluding the knowledge and skills you will take from this program and how that knowledge and those skills will shape your future and support you to make a positive difference?