Self leadership- Part -2- Emotional Intelligence
My key learning from the Self Leadership Class on 5 Oct
2012-
In the first part of
Self Leadership, we learnt that it is very important for to be a good leader,
one should be able to lead their body, with their 5 senses.
The second part of Self Leadership deals with Emotional
Intelligence. Emotional intelligence is acquired. It is largely based on
upbringing and early education. It is as a result of nurturing and not nature.
The best part of EI is that it can be improved at each level. It has also been
proven that EI is 100 times more important than Intellectual Intelligence.
An important aspect
of EI is deep listening. There was a very interesting exercise that was done in
class that tested our listening skills and ego. At the end of the exercise, we realized
that apart from listening skills, our patience was also put to test. We also
learnt the importance of the art of summarizing a big dialogue. We also learnt
that understanding occurs due to conscious listening and that you can become a
fantastic problem solver if you listen carefully.
There was a second
exercise done in the next session, where we had to talk about someone who had
been very close and had inspired us. It was a very well structured group which
had a facilitator, time keeper, team leader, observer and spokesperson. The
discussion went on very well as they were people who were there to keep the
discussion in control. At the end of this exercise, I realized what it took for
each person to consider someone as his/her as a role model.
The next session, we
had another exercise that asked us to describe the most joyful moment after
joining SOIL. We worked in teams of two
and each of us had beautiful experiences to share. We were also taught the
difference between “Pleasure with excitement” and “Pleasure with joy”. The
former causes addiction and the latter does not.
We finally had a session where I would probably say had
increased the bonding between HRLP and the MLP batch. Each of us shared a very
tragic experience that happened in our lives and got to know that each others’
problems were probably bigger than ours. Most of us broke down while narrating
those incidents and each of consoled each other and this increases the bonding
between both the cohorts.
I am extremely happy that this session
happened and brought both the cohorts together. Overall, the day was an enjoyable
one with a huge amount of learning too. I am grateful to Anil Sir, who took his
time off to teach us.
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