Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

“Emotional intelligence (EI) involves the ability to carry
out accurate reasoning about emotions and the ability to
use emotions and emotional knowledge to enhance
thought.”

Mayer, Roberts, & Barsade, 2008, p. 507

How are the concepts of a “sustainable future”
and the “core learning capabilities” utilized?

Sustainable Future

What is Sustainable Development?
“integrated strategies to help societies integrate people, planet and profits
on their development, rather than focusing upon short-term profits”

Lozano, Lozano, Mulder, Huisingh, and Waas, 2013, p. 3

Core Learning Capabilities

★ Seeing systems
★ Collaborating across boundaries
★ Creating and recognizing desired futures
★ Understand one’s role in driving systemic change toward a sustainable

world

Seeing Systems Seeing

Downloading

Collaborating Across Borders

★ Avoid Blindspots
★ Develop Positive Responses
★ Sense and Read Emotion

Creating and Recognizing Desired Futures

Presensing

Understand One’s Role in Driving Systemic
Change Toward a Sustainable World

★ Self-reflection
★ Other Focused
★ Presensing

What leadership capabilities will be necessary?

Self-awareness

A leaders ability to reflect on:

● What he or she is doing well as a leader
● What he or she needs to improve on
● What the team, business or organization is good at
● What the team, business or organization needs to improve on

Accountability

Taking responsibility for:
● Mistakes
● Accomplishments
A leader blames self for mistakes and does not blame others or the environment.

Ability to motivate and develop great people

Leaders are responsible for:

● Hiring the right people to work with the company, business or
organization

● Share vision of company, business or organization
● Make team feel valued and respected
● Encourage and support staff ideas

How does going down the “U” enhance the
capabilities?

Emotional intelligence

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How does going down the “U” enhance the
capabilities?

Accountability - leaders are charged with modeling deep listening

-Often- allow downloading and encourage surface level
agreements- leading to absencing

-Can blame others- model that keeps others from connecting to the
system.

How does going down the “U” enhance the
capabilities?

Ability to motivate and develop great people- co inspiring- using the
blank canvas (page 40- 41, 72-73)

Intertwine with deep listening levels on the U- leaders use high
levels of emotional intelligence and open heart listening to inspire
groups/ people

As you go up the “U” how does current reality
play in to the prototype of your story and how
can new informal spaces finally connect to our
current schools?

Going up the “U” to prototyping

-Integrating three types of intelligence (p. 205-206)
-the intelligence of the head, of the heart and of the hand
-connection to the source or inspirational spark of the future
-holding space for emerging future possibilities

Prototyping

-Establishing three types of connection and communication (p.213)
-Upward connection-to the intention or inspiration
-Horizontal connection- listening to feedback
-Downward or Local connection-engaging in and learning from local
fast-cycle protoypes

Connecting Leadership in schools

-Nurture and reinforce behaviors that are desired
-Setting direction
-Creating alignment
-Gaining commitment

Hernez-Broome, G., & Hughes, R. L. (2004) Leadership development: Past, present, future. HR. Human Resource Planning, 27(1) 24-32

As a leader of emotional intelligence

-Demonstrate yourself as contributing, cooperative and constructive
member of a group

-Ongoing self-reflection

-Get honest feedback from others

-Participating in local leadership development

Center for Creative Leadership. (2003). Leadership Skills
& Emotional Intelligence. Greensboro, NC. Retrieved from
Drexel Blackboard Learn.

What type of evidence of how new learning
systems will spread and becomes sustainable
will be used?

Technology Learning Systems
❏ Mixed Reality(MR)
❏ Augmented Reality(AR)
❏ Virtual Reality(VR)
❏ Artificial Intelligence(AI)

What type of evidence of how new learning
systems will spread and becomes sustainable
will be used?

References

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Center for Creative Leadership. (2003). Leadership Skills & Emotional Intelligence. Greensboro, NC. Retrieved from Drexel Blackboard Learn.

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Lozano, R., Lozano, F. J., Mulder, K., Huisingh, D., & Waas, T. (2013). Advancing higher education for sustainable development: International insights and
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