Emotional exhaustion

1. Bernard Ebbers showed a lot of leadership because he had a lot of followers. His reputation and charisma created trust and loyalty. Bernard’s deviant behaviors came from him being obsessed with maintaining an unsustainable growth (The Role of Leaders in Influencing Unethical Behavior in the Workplace 2005). This lead to him and his subordinates doing unethical business practices. He showed leadership by cutting operating costs and investing most of his money back into the company stock. His…

The concept of Emotional Intelligence had been around for decades. Many practitioners have implemented the concept in education, leadership, and organization. For example, Goleman (1998) explains the importance of Emotional Intelligence in leadership practice. The Emotional Intelligence is a well-developed construct in Psychology, Education, and leadership study. In terms of defining Emotional Intelligence, Pope and Singer (1990) and Salovey and Mayer (1990) introduced one of the most cited…

Implementation and Evaluation Introduction Through regular implementation and evaluation of intervention strategies, members of different groups and their team leaders can together bring about considerable change in the effectiveness of the functioning of the group and even promote a higher level of participation. The implementation of leadership interventions refers to a process where the different aspects of all potential approaches are together, put into practice so as to be able to meet…

In chapter five of Daniel Goleman's book, Emotional Intelligence, on one side of the spectrum there is self mastery and on the other is giving into our passions, he writes, "the goal is balance, not emotional suppression: every feeling has its value and significance" (1995 p.56). Naturally everyone is going to experience highs and low on the emotional roller coaster. He believes that the "art of soothing ourselves" is one of the most basic skills that a person needs to develop (1995 p. 57).…

Goleman on Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman addressed Google on his book Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. He argues about the fact that emotional intelligence is very important in life. Emotional intelligence is in fact so important that most of the best companies actually hire people on the basis of their emotional intelligence. The people with vey high IQs actually have high emotional intelligence. Daniel Goleman drew a comparison of IQ and emotional…

The emotional state is a tricky business because it’s like a complex abstract puzzle with limited pieces that can only be solved by perceptions of sight and sound. We’ve spent centuries trying to understand emotions but it can’t be accurately explained since each person experiences and feels their emotions differently than the next person. Even though emotions can’t precisely be defined, there are clues, or puzzle pieces if you will, that indicate a person’s emotional state. These puzzle pieces…

One of the biggest issues I have seen in my personal life as well as my working career is the ability to totally trust people. The definition that we looked at in class defines trust as the willingness to be vulnerable to an authority based on positive expectations about the authority’s actions and intentions. A great deal of my distrust at work stems from the total lack of communication within our group. My colleagues and I have conferred on many occasions that management continually…

Becoming a great leader thankfully is something you can grow into, although it will be hard work. We have studied how leaders need to be self aware and have emotional intelligence, building on strengths and realizing that there is no one way to lead is a great place to start. From our text Strengths Based Leadership I learned that attributes of a leader can be sorted into four categories and I will look at each of these one at a time. In this essay I will explore my top 10 desired attributes of…

Intelligence Intelligence is a very widely debated term in the exact meaning. This makes sense because it deals the inner workings of the human mind and thus has several connotations depending on how intelligent someone is perceived to be. Unlike other topics such as mathematics and science, which are more cut-and-dry, intelligence has the potential to hurt people and cause them to feel excluded. Also, people’s minds aren’t drawn in black and white. You can’t simply decipher what it means to be…

The psychological skills considered to be linked to EI and believed to be learned through sporting experience (e.g. stress control, impulse control, emotional self-awareness and empathy) not only benefit individuals in sporting situations, but also strongly benefit them in everyday life; people with high EI are better adjusted in social situations, have a better quality of friendships with reduced conflicts (Brackett & Rivers, 2004) and are generally happier in their lives (Zamanian et al.).…