Week 4 LDR 531 DQ 4

Class—the following are excerpts from the Harvard Business School eLearning Alert Newsletter email I received several months ago for a book titled Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence—– “The key to successful leadership is in understanding your emotional impact on others. However, emotional leadership is not simply about putting on a game face every day, but about being aware of your effect on those around you–and adjusting your style accordingly. Many leaders suffer from “CEO disease”–a condition in which people do not tell a leader the whole truth about how his or her mood and actions appear to the organization. Therefore leaders must be proactive in getting accurate feedback about their emotional style. Leaders who embark upon a self-discovery process should learn how their emotional style drives the moods and behaviors of people around them. With this information, leaders can become more emotionally aware and attuned to their impact on their organizations.” Thoughts? Have you ever confronted your boss about their mood–has an employee ever confronted you about your mood when you’ve been in a supervisory role? How did it go