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Part 1

Emotions & Moods

Review the following link on emotional intelligence, which addresses skills found in personal competence and social awareness. It should be evident that possessing these abilities can make one more aware of his or her own emotions and moods and the emotions and moods of those around him or her. Emotional Competence Framework reviews Personal Competence and Social Competence. Under each of these are subcategories. Emotional competence is part of emotional intelligence and is critical to an organization and individually.

• Link (website): Emotional Competence Framework

• Link (PDF): Competence Framework

Part 2

Personality & Values

Personality can have an effect an organization. Personality does not explain all behavior, but it is a starting point for understanding behavior. The five basic personalities generally recognized are:

a. Extraversion: Comfort level with relationships.

• Extroverts tend to be gregarious, assertive, and sociable.

• Introverts tend to be reserved, timid, and quiet.

b. Agreeableness: Individual's propensity to defer to others.

• High agreeableness people-cooperative, warm, and trusting.

• Low agreeableness people-cold, disagreeable, and antagonistic.

c. Conscientiousness: A measure of reliability.

• A highly conscientious person is responsible, organized, dependable, and persistent.

• Those who score low on this dimension are easily distracted, disorganized, and unreliable.

d. Emotional stability: A person's ability to withstand stress.

• People with positive emotional stability tend to be calm, self-confident, and secure.

• Those with high negative scores tend to be nervous, anxious, depressed, and insecure.

e. Openness to experience: The range of interests and fascination with novelty.

• Extremely open people are creative, curious, and artistically sensitive.

• Those at the other end of the openness category are conventional and find comfort in the familiar.

Emotions and moods and personality and values play a major part in an organization - human beings. Review the information about each of these characteristics that impact the way we lead and behave. Reflect on how you see yourself within the constraints of each competence. Provide your thoughts on how you interact with people and how you see yourself with each of the competencies.