Politician, College Professor, and Coach

1. Rank order from your perspective and explain why for a politician, college professor, and coach, the importance of analytical intelligence, practical intelligence, creative intelligence, and emotional intelligence. Which of the intelligences do you believe are most important and why for each position?

      A politician should display the ability to be emotional, analytical, creative, and practical in intelligence. They need to display emotional intelligence first because they need to put their constituents’ feelings before their own. They need to know what is important to the people that they serve. A politician needs analytical ability because they are elected to represent the people by creating effective policies and exercise voting power. A politician needs creative intelligence by being a strong leader that can promote creativeness among their aides to produce policies and programs that are effective. Lastly they need practical intelligence to adapt situations to meet their own needs by keeping their constituents satisfied so they can become reelected.

     A professor should display creative, analytical, emotional, and practical intelligence. They need to be creative and design classes that are interesting to their student body. They need analytical intelligence to be able to solve problems and correctly think through questions effectively. They need emotional intelligence to be insightful into their own feelings towards subjects of discussion and recognize the needs of their students. They need practical intelligence to ensure that their students learn and are successful in their course.

     A coach should display creative, analytical, emotional, and practical intelligence. They need creative intelligence to design effective conditioning and practice to prepare the athletes for competition. They need analytical intelligence's to be able to apply strategies and change those strategies quickly under pressure. They need emotional intelligence their love of the sport and how to entice others to feel the same. They need to recognize their feelings toward member of their team. They need practical intelligence to ensure success of their team and popularity as a coach.    

2. Think of the most effective and most ineffective leaders you have ever worked with. What attributes did the most effective leader possess and what attributes did the most ineffective leader possess?

  
I think the most effective leaders use the spiral of experience model. The Spiral of Experience Model has three different processes: action, observation, and reflection. Action is achieving goals and fulfilling obligations. Observation occurs spontaneously and effortlessly. A perceptual set can influence any of the senses. A perpetual set is a bias to perceive one thing and not another. This includes feelings, needs, prior experience, and expectations. For example if a leader does not like a certain person because of a particular reason that leader may discount important advice offered by the disliked person. The leader can lose the opportunity to improve a situation and therefore do a better job. Reflection is the interpretation of a person’s observations. Attributions are important to reflection. An attribution is the explanations that develop behaviors. Reflection can provide a leader with the tools to see things differently.  Personal growth can occur naturally but a good leader takes part in skill building to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses. The last part for an effective leader is looking for feedback. Evaluation is always assessing the present situation with the goal for improvement. The most ineffective leader lacks these skills and many times possesses lack of organization, limited planning skills, and lack charisma.

3. Can better leaders more accurately perceive and leverage emotions? How could you determine if this is so?

Yes better leaders can more accurately perceive and leverage emotions.  Better leaders tend to possess different levels of intelligence.  They possess higher levels of intelligence, are analytical, good problem solvers and profit from experience. To improve as a leader researchers have indicated that personality also plays a large role.  Some support that each person has a bright personality, as well as a dark personality. A good leader exams their dark personality and strives to identify what triggers it and they work to control it.  A good leader is able to blend intelligence with personality, align their thoughts and feelings and then take action that is congruent.