Assignment: Professional Leadership Journal–Emotional Intelligence

This week’s self-assessment, located in your text, is a brief individual leadership assessment entitled, “Emotional Intelligence.” As mentioned in Week 5 of this course, understanding one’s emotional intelligence may increase a leader’s effectiveness in interacting with others to achieve organizational goals.

For this Professional Leadership Journal, take a few minutes to work through the instrument. As a scholar-practitioner in public health leadership, what may the test reveal about your Emotional Intelligence in terms of leadership?

The Assignment (2–3 paragraphs):

• Explain new insights gained based on your results of the Emotional Intelligence assessment
• Explain how these new insights might impact your role, or future role, as a public health leader

By Day 7

Submit your Assignment.

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

Required Readings

Nahavandi, A. (2014).
The art and science of leadership (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

• Chapter 3, “The Foundations of Modern Leadership”
• Chapter 10, “Developing Leaders”
• Self-Assessment 4-2: Emotional Intelligence (p. 133)