Appendix C: Transcript Excerpts with Corresponding Data Coding and Analysis.........
Interview question: In what ways has your emotional intelligence changed over the course of your career?^
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A2 (3 second pause) I would say the biggest influence Coding^
has just been experience along the way. I guess I take the (redacted) concept of basic citizen and turn
them into a (they’re just growing and expanding redacted), they’re not adding anything; what’s already
inside the recruit. I would say ... I have broadened my perspective. It’s helped me see the whole
greater, the whole enchilada if you will, or the bigger part of the enchilada which has two-fold
affect: one is appreciating the big picture, aquite personally pointing to my increasing smallnd then -
ness. The bigger the picture gets, the more I understand my relative spot in the whole thing.
That’s diminishing value or capability, but I can see how it connects to other parts of it. And that’s what
helped me, I think, along the way role I play. And I would say that in the professional – recognizing the
line I’m in, financial management, I can look to program managers who develop (device), who
produce something that the (in, day-out, I receive paper, I push paper. And so redacted) needs. Day-
my ... my appreciation of the value of what I do, what I contribute is – it’s far more ethereal, I guess.
It’s less tangible. And so maybe part of that is striving to understand the role I play is, I’ve had to
... find some sort of common value between those things which are tangible and which is mine, which
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