Spirituality, Emotional Intelligence, And Self Efficacy

Is a leader born or made?
McCall says “executive leaders are both, born and made but mostly made, based on a significant amount of research showing that executives do learn, grow, and change overtime”. It can, therefore, be concluded that leadership, including transformational leadership, is the product of developmental experiences in the leader’s life, from childhood up to the present.Spirituality
Ritscher says that “Spirituality is the awareness that there is something more to life than just our narrow, ego-oriented view of it”. This understanding is empowering because it takes lifebeyond superficiality. If only physical, mental, and emotional energies are encouraged in the workplace, opportunities for vitality and new energy may be totally lost by individuals andorganizations. Ignoring the spiritual is denying the very personality of the organization.
A leader who understands these distinctly personal components of an organization can encourage the development of trustand vision to “cultivate optimal change, creativity, common cause, and optimal actualization of opportunity” says Spitzer.

Emotional intelligence
Harrison says that it involves the ability tomanage one’s emotions, to empathize with other people, and to cope with emotional relationships.
“An emotionally intelligent organization’s culture emphasizes relationship building, empathy and socialresponsibility, attributes that enhance trust, commitment and connection between a new hire and the organization” (Book, 2000).

Goleman four components of emotional intelligence:
1.Self-awareness: means having a deep understanding of one’s emotions, strengths, weaknesses, needs, and drives”

2. Self-regulation: also referred to as “managing emotions.” Handling feelings so they areappropriate is an ability that actually builds on self-awareness. A self-regulating individual can shake off anxiety, gloom, or irritability and effectively deal with negative consequences or failures....