Post by Stacey Fraser on Mar 2, 2021 14:38:44 GMT
Lesson 1
Shut up and Listen!
When I first graduated from college and started my career, I worked for a man who loved the sound of his own voice. He constantly interrupted people, seemingly, to hear his own voice. To make matters worse, half the time he was not even talking about what everyone else in the room was speaking of. Maybe if he were listening more, he would have also realized that people did not respect him and outwardly disrespected him, therefore, were not really following him. This made it very difficult for a young impressionable person to understand what a real job should entail, what a real supervisor should be doing to guide, lead, and teach.
Later in my career, I was fortunate enough to have a supervisor who was very confident in herself and her role to understand that there are many times someone else needs to speak and be heard. Even if a task or discussion was at hand, this supervisor was able to infer when something might be going on and when we/I needed to vent, ask questions, or discuss something for some reason. Always feeling as if I had a voice and the ability to use it when needed went a very long way towards trust, leadership, and respect.
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to listen to and understand others (both what is being spoken and what is not) while listening to your own inner voices and understanding all that is going on. It is the being able to regulate yourself, your emotions and being able to relate to others and guide them all at the same time.
Emotional intelligence is critical to being able to understand the nuances going on, to guide and lead in a way that is effective and understood without personal emotions or biases being mixed in. It is important for effective communication, as it allows for communication to flow both ways in a productive manner lending itself to mutual understanding whether it is agreed upon or not.
An influential communicator I admire would be Margaret Thatcher. She resonates with me as a great leader and communicator simply because she dedicated a lot of time and effort into learning these skills, these were not innate skills to her. She had to take voice lessons and public speaking classes to improve her tone and overall speaking abilities, and this helped with her being a more effective leader. She was even known as the “Iron Lady” later in her life, obviously after working hard to improve skills that she thought were lacking.
I admire her drive, determination, and way of leading. More importantly, I admire her ability to see where she needed improvements and her willingness to take part in the learning needed to improve. This Leadership Academy, for me, is to improve upon and grow in areas I might be lacking in, most obviously my own lack of confidence in my public speaking abilities!
Shut up and Listen!
When I first graduated from college and started my career, I worked for a man who loved the sound of his own voice. He constantly interrupted people, seemingly, to hear his own voice. To make matters worse, half the time he was not even talking about what everyone else in the room was speaking of. Maybe if he were listening more, he would have also realized that people did not respect him and outwardly disrespected him, therefore, were not really following him. This made it very difficult for a young impressionable person to understand what a real job should entail, what a real supervisor should be doing to guide, lead, and teach.
Later in my career, I was fortunate enough to have a supervisor who was very confident in herself and her role to understand that there are many times someone else needs to speak and be heard. Even if a task or discussion was at hand, this supervisor was able to infer when something might be going on and when we/I needed to vent, ask questions, or discuss something for some reason. Always feeling as if I had a voice and the ability to use it when needed went a very long way towards trust, leadership, and respect.
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to listen to and understand others (both what is being spoken and what is not) while listening to your own inner voices and understanding all that is going on. It is the being able to regulate yourself, your emotions and being able to relate to others and guide them all at the same time.
Emotional intelligence is critical to being able to understand the nuances going on, to guide and lead in a way that is effective and understood without personal emotions or biases being mixed in. It is important for effective communication, as it allows for communication to flow both ways in a productive manner lending itself to mutual understanding whether it is agreed upon or not.
An influential communicator I admire would be Margaret Thatcher. She resonates with me as a great leader and communicator simply because she dedicated a lot of time and effort into learning these skills, these were not innate skills to her. She had to take voice lessons and public speaking classes to improve her tone and overall speaking abilities, and this helped with her being a more effective leader. She was even known as the “Iron Lady” later in her life, obviously after working hard to improve skills that she thought were lacking.
I admire her drive, determination, and way of leading. More importantly, I admire her ability to see where she needed improvements and her willingness to take part in the learning needed to improve. This Leadership Academy, for me, is to improve upon and grow in areas I might be lacking in, most obviously my own lack of confidence in my public speaking abilities!