Being an effective leader calls for spending time honing leadership skills, utilizing and constantly improving emotional intelligence, and, most of all, recognizing that there are many realities in the organization. One’s perception — one’s reality — may not be the perception of all the other players.
In this session, attendees will test their own perception and compare it to others’, using music and visual arts, interactive discussion of how we perceive our environment, and how we apply our emotional intelligence to interact and relate to those with whom we work closely when we are leaders — from your Association staff to your Leadership Team and member volunteers to the organization’s membership as a whole.
Attendees will:
- Use listening and visualizing techniques to analyze differences in perception versus reality
- Explore the basic tenets of emotional intelligence (EI or EQ) and its effects on our interpersonal relationships, communication, and leadership skills and effectiveness
- Discuss ideal traits for leaders and different leadership styles, and the benefits of being a leadership chameleon
- Discover new ways of approaching problem-solving, using a results-oriented step-by-step routine to break down the thought process
- Get hands-on experience with real-world problem solving through group discussion of a series of REALTOR® Association case studies
RESOURCES:
Stradivarius Effect:
- Violinists Can’t Tell the Difference Between Stradivarius Violins and New Ones – Discover, January 2, 2012
- Players and Listeners Both Prefer a New Violin to a Stradivarius – The Atlantic, May 8, 2017
- Study Finds the Accidental Genius of Stradivarius Violins – The Telegraph, July 11, 2018
- The Secrets of the Violin – Part III: The Stradivarius Effect – Medici.tv (documentary)
- The Look of Music – Harvard Gazette, August 19, 2013
- People Favor Naturals Over Strivers — Even Though They Say Otherwise – Harvard Business Review, May 19, 2016
Dunning-Kruger Effect:
- Why Bad Leaders Think They Are Good Leaders – Business Insider, August 19, 2017
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect Helps Explain Why People Resist Hearing Constructive Criticism – Forbes, February 22, 2017
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect Shows Why Some People Think They’re Great Even When Their Work is Terrible – Forbes, January 24, 2017
Other Resources:
- Drunk People are Better at Creative Problem-Solving – Harvard Business Review, May-June 2018 issue
Downloads:
- Problem Solving with Emotional Intelligence (worksheet)