Emotional Intelligence
During the ten-week term, my group and I have to create a proposal on what service could be implemented to make the Lundquist College of Business better. During this process I was evaluated on my strengths and weaknesses on two occasions. This allowed me to determine my strengths and weaknesses within the context of Emotional Intelligence. My strengths included self-awareness and self-management and my weaknesses were indicated with social awareness. As seen in the below pictures, these are my feedback reports for both the midterm evaluation and the final evaluation.
On the final evaluation (as seen below), I was credited with the ability to “defend my beliefs well,” which showed my ability to demonstrate self-confidence in my thoughts and actions. This strength demonstrated my effort in backing up my ideas with what I thought was correct to show strength behind my arguments. Another strength that was evident in the both the midterm and final evaluations was my ability to “being on time to meetings.” This demonstrates my strength in self-management and being a trusted member by my group.
As for my weakness, I realize I need to improve on social awareness as seen evident in the final evaluations. As one of my teammates said, “be careful of your comments.” I need to do a better job of being less critical because it can degrade someone who has put a lot of effort into his or her work. I know I am not perfect and will continue to try and be more respectful of the work that other group members produce.
I would engage in self-reflection every week through a blog post. This consisted of a blog post on social awareness and also my reflection on my group self-evaluation. These blog posts allowed me to reflect on what I was doing well and what I needed to improve on moving forward. This idea of self-reflection will continue to move forward for the rest of my educational career and even when I get employed. The only times I asked others for feedback was during the mid-term and final evaluations. I could have asked for group members input more often, but failed to do so.
As for accepting feedback, I take it humbly or as constructive criticism. This allows me to see the strengths that other members see in me, as well as what others view as my weaknesses. By taking the negative feedback constructively, it allows me to build on my weaknesses instead of feeling sorry for myself. In this class I have learned to fail and it is how you respond to negative feedback that ultimately determines your success. This was true when I received negative feedback on my first memo draft. Although I got a P on the first draft, I took the negative feedback and made necessary improvements that ultimately improved my score to a 30 out of 40 on the Writing Memo #1. This was final memo. This also reflected my ability to remain self-confident in my ability, which is discussed as one of the ideas in Emotional Intelligence.
During the course, I was able to learn and improve on self-awareness and self-management. Although I view these as my strengths I will have to continue to improve on these ideas if I want to perfect them. As for my weakness in social awareness, I need to continue to work on my ability to empathize and understand others in every situation. Moving forward, I will continue to listen and accept other member’s ideas without shutting them down.