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Emotional Intelligence

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College Student Leadership Development Participation And Emotional Intelligence, Nicole Renae Portell Brown Dec 2015

College Student Leadership Development Participation And Emotional Intelligence, Nicole Renae Portell Brown

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Leadership development has been identified as a key college outcome (Komives, Dugan, Owen, Slack, & Wagner, 2011). Emotional intelligence as a leadership development framework has shown promise in many applications (Petrides, 2011). Able to be augmented through purposeful training and practice, high levels of emotional intelligence have been linked to job performance, healthy relationships, and emotional well-being (Joseph, Jin, Newman, & O’Boyle, 2014). This study focused on changes in emotional intelligence as a metric for personal and professional development through a state university’s leadership program. Students’ self-reported change in global and factor emotional intelligence were measured utilizing the Trait Emotional …


Two Case Studies Of The Contribution Of Emotional Intelligence, Communication Style, Job Competency, Vision, And Ethics To Constituent Buy-In For Leaders, David M. Schall Nov 2015

Two Case Studies Of The Contribution Of Emotional Intelligence, Communication Style, Job Competency, Vision, And Ethics To Constituent Buy-In For Leaders, David M. Schall

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the similarities and dissimilarities of leadership traits that create leader buy-in for an educational leader and a football coach; specifically, emotional intelligence, communication style, job competency, vision, and ethics, between an educational leader and a sports coach. The rationale of this study was to create recent literature that provided insight for leaders in multiple areas on how to transfer leadership skills to establish common goals and missions within their organizations. Data was collected using a survey completed by 154 volunteer participants, along with interviews of 12 volunteer participants. A focus group of …