Leading Myself - Personal Power
Semester 2 - Day 1
Self-knowledge
Emotional Intelligence
This AMU course is offered in collaboration with Edutasia and has been developed and designed by Asnæs & Vangstrup.
AMU 45362 purpose:
Acquire new knowledge and are motivated for further development and education, both professionally and personally, in order to match changing needs in the workplace and the labor market as a whole.
Set clear wishes and goals in relation to one's own qualifications and education in order to match the needs within one's own professional field.
Handle performance appraisals, including establishing contact with and being understood by other people and tackling situations where the participant encounters resistance, including understanding the psychological mechanisms that respectively promote and inhibit accurate communication.
Preparation for Semester 2 - Day 1
Please study Semester 2 - Day 1 webpage
The webpage also includes buddy group excersises for when you meet with your buddy group. These excercises are therefor not part of your preparation for the semester.
What, why, how?
What is self-knowledge?
To continously lead ourselves in a authentic direction, we need to consistently work on understanding ourselves and the patterns we are disposed to. Self-knowledge includes both our behavioral traits and an awareness of our thoughts and feelings—and how they can sometimes hinder our self-development.
Therefore, semester 2 - day 1 will include:
Understanding the theory behind emotional intelligence and how it supports us in our relationship with others and ourselves
Understanding how thoughts, feelings, and behavior are interconnected
Why is it relevant?
Understanding how to navigate between your thoughts, feelings, and behavior is key to knowing yourself. It provides the best foundation for contributing positively to relationships and for personal development.
How do I practise it?
We will use the 180-degree survey to understand whether there are areas where your self-perception is different from your expression. We will challenge ourselves by practicing taking a meta-perspective on your selfs to understand when and how we think, feel, and behave in certain situations.
Emotional Intelligence
In short, Emotional intelligence is about our ability to understand and manage both our own and other people's emotions.
Daniel Goleman is the founder of Emotionel Intelligence.
Daniel Goleman: Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman, the inventor of the concept of emotional intelligence, explains what you can do to work with this intelligence and how it can be used in the workplace.
Employees in a company observe your reactions daily, and these emotions become part of their consciousness.
Watch the video to learn more.
Daniel Goleman identifies 5 different competences in Emotional intelligence:
Self-awareness:The ability to understand your own feelings and moods. This also includes knowing your values, goals, and competencies, as well as knowing who you are.
Self-regulation: The ability to manage your emotions so that you can use them to your advantage rather than letting them become an adversary.
Motivation:The ability to set ambitious goals and focus on achieving them, even when adversity arises.
Empathy: The ability to understand the feelings and needs of others, often described as “putting yourself in someone else’s shoes.”
Social skills: A set of skills that help you relate to others effectively. This includes skills such as leadership, persuasion, and social intuition.
When our emotions “take over” our cognitive behavoir, we become Amygdala hijacked. Watch this video to understand the concept
Watch the video to understanding how EI adds value to work environment
Buddy group exercise:
Analyse the feedback from your 180-degree survey in the perspective of emotional intelligence.
Identify if there are gaps where your feelings might me hijacked and therefore interfere with your response/reaction towards colleague.
Identify if there is feedback that leaves you frustrated/irritated and reflect on how you can “navigate and controle” these feeling.
Become aware of when you tend to become hijacked and prepare how you wish to react.
The Cognitive Diamant
The cognitive diamant adds body / fysical sensations to the traingle.
All feelings are stored in our body and therefore our body reacts to certain situtations in certain ways.
By becoming aware of how you fysically react to, for example conflicts, eye contact or loud noices, you can start navigating more appropiate to certain situations.
The Cognitive Triangle
The Cognitive Triangle (also known as the Cognitive-Behavioral Triangle) is a foundational concept in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It illustrates the interconnected relationship between our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
The core idea is that these three components do not exist in isolation; instead, they constantly influence one another in a continuous loop.
Buddy group exercise:
Identity feelings & finish the sentence:
When I need my managers help at work, I feel………
When I feel insure about my job, I usually…….
When I feel stressed in my job, I tend to.......
When I am irritated with a collegue, I usually…
Till next time:
14th October, 9 - 11 am, online
Meet with buddy group to discuss:
•Share a situation where you felt hijacked
•Discuss how the cognitive Diamant could help you navigate in a similar situation in the future
•Prepare a 5 min presentation on your discussion
