• How do you define "great" leadership? What are the skills, traits, behaviors, or competencies that you associate with great leadership? Think about a leader who has had the most positive impact on your life. For example, this can include a supervisor, manager, teacher, or coach. You can use a fictitious name. What is it that made them successful? Identify 3-5 skills, traits, behaviors, or competencies that made them successful. For example, what technical expertise, cognitive intelligence (IQ), emotional intelligence or social intelligence did they demonstrate? What specific behaviors did they display? How did these skills, traits, behaviors, and competencies relate to their effectiveness as a leader? Provide specific examples from the leader that you have identified.
• Review the skills, traits, behaviors, or competencies that impacted you and caused you to identify the individual as a great leader. Do any of these skills, traits, behaviors, or competencies relate to what you have learned about emotional and social intelligence? How? Do you hope to learn or develop any of the skills, traits, behaviors, or competencies identified to support your leadership success? How will these skills, traits, behaviors, or competencies help you to be a successful leader? Provide examples.