Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

then you need to listen and frankly, once you’ve done that a few times you realize that it strengthens

the whlikely to buy into where you think they need to go in ole group because they’ll be much more

the beginning if they know that you’ll also admit later on that it wasn’t right and will go ahead and

change direction.

Strengthener

A9 Researcher: so goingabout the other SES members who you wanted to back to when you were talking
emulate, them being a mentor to you about them, what were those behaviors ...– what was it

(^) A9: they were perceived as good leaders, all of them
were strategic thinkers, they ... thepeople, you know? They were fun to be around. y were good
And I would say there was a certain amount of humility and humbleness about them.
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A9: And actually now that I think abowere all tall, too. I don’t know if they all won the ut it, they
Distinguished rank award, I know one of them did. I don’t know about the others.
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Fun Humility (^)
Humbleness
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R1 Yeah, I’ve been really fortunate to hook up with a lot of people. (Name) had been in government a
really long time and took me under his wing. He’d tell me when I was just not handling change very
well or tell me if it appsomething right. I had very good mentors, even if I eared I was handling
didn’t like what they said sometimes. I was very fortunate every step of the way. But I opened
myself up to that experience, too (laughter). I made a lot of mistakes and I learned – I failed a lot
that that’s just part of it time, you have to deal failure.– you can’t be right all the
Fortunate
Mentor
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receptiveLearned from
mistakes
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MENTORING
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