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Personality, Skills, Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Given that our introduction looked at the entire field of leadership from 30,000 feet, let's dive into theories, concepts, and assessments to put the importance of interpersonal skills and their development into perspective. This session we will explore personality traits, individual differences and skills for individuals to assess our own skills and motivations as leaders, role models, as well as ensuring fair and equitable workplaces. Gary Yukl describes four levels of conceptualization for exploring leadership theories and levels of leader influence. Ultimately, these four levels represent four different relationship types, or processes, where we see leadership implemented and developed. Therefore, leadership relationship levels can be viewed as (1) intra-individual or internal; (2) one-on-one relationships; (3) a group or team set of interactional dynamics; and (4) an organizational relationship-focused process. This section primarily focuses on the first level of "relationship with ourselves," or the "intra," and our important abilities to bring our interpersonal skills to leadership situations—requiring the internal processes of self-evaluation, formal self-assessment, and continued self-reflection through seeking, valuing, and accepting personal feedback. We will also explore the possibility of shifting from inadvertently resisting change given traits that might lead to self-defeating behaviors and ineffective interpersonal engagements, to fully informed interactions that benefit all participants. Through the process of looking at ourselves and the impacts of our tendencies, worldviews, emotional reactions, natural strengths, and weaknesses, this section offers methods to help you toward the end goal of becoming an effective leader. While we will first focus on knowing the most important person in your life, you, these relationship levels require the leader to focus and balance varying levels of follower needs and perspectives. These levels require different interpersonal skills and have serious implications on leader effectiveness in the above four areas. Finally, the intra-individual, or internal area, is viewed as the critical level for the leader to consistently investigate, using openness to inquiry, through their leadership career.

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This section details the aspects of leadership skills, namely personality traits and skills to develop our leadership abilities. Gary Yukl describes four levels of conceptualization for exploring leadership theories and the level of leader influence. This section primarily discusses on the first level of leadership “relationship with ourselves” or the “intra” and our important abilities to bring our interpersonal skills to leadership situations.

Empathy, management and leadership

Leaders are evaluated based on their behavioral abilities and how others perceive their support, rationale and motivation. There are two main factors that drive the motivation and behavior of leaders namely, traits and skills.

1. Traits- Traits are motivating factors which is hard to change and are viewed as automatic and beneath awareness. One should do a self assessment of the traits and identify how they would benefit us.
2. Skills- Leadership skills need to be acquired to manage teams effectively. Some of them are:
   1. The Big 5- This is a self-assessment of our weaknesses and strengths.
   2. Openness- High openness indicates a high level of creative energy, curiosity and insights. This also indicates a high level of flexibility and willingness to think.
   3. Conscientiousness- This skill indicates high level of thoughtfulness, commitments, good organizational skills and orientation to detail.
   4. Extraversion- Extravert leaders are comfortable to work with new people and in new situations
   5. Agreeableness- This skill helps a leader to assess the situation and choose the appropriate behavior acceptable to all.
   6. Neuroticism/emotional stability- Successful leaders are cool under pressure and do not escalate emotional situations that involve receiving critical feedback.
   7. Emotional intelligence- is your ability to not only understand and regulate your emotions but also emotions of those in your social environment.

Conclusion- Effective leaders are perceived to have excellent social skills and high extraversion. Developing skills in the area of conscientiousness, interpersonal skills, organizing and scheduling your time is critical for an effective leader.