Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students

Student Workbook

Marcy Levy Shankman, Scott J. Allen, Paige Haber-Curran

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781118821879
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Student Life

The workbook that helps students connect emotional intelligence with leadership skills

The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Student Workbook contains hands-on activities and case studies to help students foster the 19 capacities of emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL) presented in the main text Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for Students. Research from around the world has demonstrated that there is a relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership. For the substantially revised second edition, the authors have completely rewritten all modules and activities according to their data-based model. These activities bring theory into practice, targeting specific learning outcomes that will help students become better leaders.

The workbook can be used in conjunction with the Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory which helps students to assess their leadership behaviors. The companion Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Facilitation and Activity Guide is aligned with the workbook to serve as a road map for educators.

• Contains 23 all new modules consisting of activities and case studies that further the understanding and relevancy of the emotionally intelligent leadership model
• Reflects 19 emotionally intelligent leadership capacities derived from new research research that provides evidence of construct validity
• Can be used as a self-guided experience for developing capacities of EIL
• Includes tips for improving each leadership capacity, suggestions for further reading, and films to watch

The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students suite of resources offers an immersive and transformative educational experience, fostering growth and promoting intense self-reflection. Students will be empowered to develop into the effective leaders of the future.

Chapter 1
Introduction to Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Activities

1. 1.1 EIL Snapshot

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Defined

Emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL) promotes an intentional focus on three facets: consciousness of self, consciousness of others, and consciousness of context. Across the three EIL facets are nineteen capacities that equip individuals with the knowledge, skills, perspectives, and attitudes to achieve desired leadership outcomes.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Emotionally intelligent leadership is integrative in nature (Boyer, [1990]). In other words, we have combined what we believe is the best thinking on emotional intelligence and leadership into one model. For a more academic and theoretical introduction to the model, see Allen, Shankman, and Miguel ([2012]). In the development of EIL we have drawn upon three sources: our own experiences, the experiences of students with whom we have worked, and the literature and scholarship on emotional intelligence and leadership.

In the midst of all this, however, we emphasize the great value your own experiences and perspectives hold. You need to determine your own styles and approaches to leadership. We note throughout the book that intentionality around your own development is central to enhancing EIL. In other words, just as with any other skill or ability, you have to want to develop it. Effective leadership takes commitment and awareness. Effective leadership requires changing behavior. Effective leadership takes deliberate practice.

EIL synthesizes two major bodies of research and theory: emotional intelligence and leadership. In 1990, Peter Salovey and John Mayer published a paper in which they coined the term emotional intelligence (EI) and defined it as “the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions to use the information to guide one's thinking and actions” (p...