Theme #1: The Leader Needs Personal Skills to Become a Good 21st Century Leader Personality and Emotional Intelligence
Understanding your own personality and emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) allows the leader to better understand others. The knowledge obtained through self-awareness provides valuable information about the personalities of others and how they relate to one another. Self-awareness heightens the leader’s ability to create followers and keep the flow of work moving easily. This also makes the job of social alignment in the structure and culture of the organization easier to perform. In other words, people are happier.