Introduction
In Exceptional Leadership, authors Carson F. Dye and Andrew N. Garman identifies four cornerstones models which consist of 16 competencies or skills that makes an outstanding healthcare leaders. The four cornerstones are: 1) well-cultivated self-awareness 2) compelling vision 3) real way with people 4) masterful style of execution. Well-cultivated self-awareness includes living by conviction and emotional intelligence. Compelling vision consists of being visionary, communicating vision, earning trust, and loyalty. Having a real way with people means listening like you mean it, giving feedback, mentoring others, developing teams, generating informal power, and energizing staff. A masterful execution includes having consensus, making…show more content… The points made how emotional intelligence impacts each of the Exceptional leadership model are summarized below.
Summary
The drive for growth requires effective leadership and emotional intelligence plays an important role, as emotional intelligence can be learned and harnessed. Effective leaders pay attention to emotional intelligence and engage others to achieve desired results. Emotional intelligence impact each of the four cornerstones of Exceptional Leadership model as an effective leader is supposed to possess five characteristics of emotional intelligence, which are: self-awareness, self-management, motivation, empathy, and social awareness.
Self-awareness is the ability to know what is happening internally and those t around you and knowing your strengths and weakness. As a leader it is important to focus on the facts by recognizing your strengths and weakness, you are able to understand and listen to others viewpoints. To become more self-aware, there needs to be clarity of intention, the use of feedback, and impact of our intentions of others. When a leader loses focus he loses the ability to control the
