Emotional Intelligence Workplace

Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Leading a team requires one to have the capability to be in tune with oneself and his emotions in addition to possessing sound situational attentiveness. The act of being aware, comprehending and giving appropriate responses to feelings, overcoming stress, and understanding how the words, actions, and inactions of a leader affect others is referred to as emotional intelligence (EI) (Spano-Szekely et al., 2016). EI is a critical aspect of effective leadership. Having a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of how the brain works as well as how the emotional responses system operates are crucial factors to be considered when placing members to teams in an organization (Beckham, & Riedford, 2017).

Self-awareness refers to the ability of an individual to understand his feelings and how the emotions, actions, and inactions can affect colleagues and followers. For nurse leaders, it also entails understanding the personal strengths and weaknesses (Roussel et al., 2016). Such an understanding of one’s level of self-awareness is fundamental in empowering leaders to make different choices. Such actions allow the managers to reach, together with the followers, a place of not responding in the same way as before. Leaders with high levels of self-awareness behave with humility, are creative, resilient, have intentionality and fuel compassion (Sharma, & Jiwan, 2015). Such leaders may also possess a high degree of self-confidence which enables them to complete managerial

Recognizing my patients’ emotional distress and other non-verbal cues during conversations helps me establish non-spritual treatments that will attend to their souls. In offering culturally sensitive care, I use my Christian faith when handling Christian patients to provide spiritual support. Through such acts as reading verses and leading the client in prayer, the emotional state can be calmed which ultimately contribute to the wellbeing of the patient. I believe that upholding integrity and being compassionate, trustworthy with excellent communication skills; I am making the right steps in my professional journey towards nurse leadership.

Emotional Intelligence Plan I acknowledge that achieving emotional intelligence is a continuous process and each experience only helps to make us better. As such, I have developed a plan that will guide me in my ongoing pursuit of strengthening my EI.

To improve compassion:

• I will seek to trust my colleagues to help me accomplish some tasks as it is not possible to fix everything on my own

• Will strengthen my spiritual beliefs and read the Bible and pray more

• Balance my life by giving sufficient time to my family and exercising

• I shall remind myself of the responsibility of being a healer (Sharma, & Jiwan, 2015).

To improve and strengthen my emotional self-control and integrity, I shall:

• Keep