Learning session & some traits

Last week Tanner and I taught our learning session.  It was mostly a review chapter which made it a little difficult to come up with what we should do for our activity.  Overall though I don’t think we did too bad at all.

Chelsee had us read an article entitled “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership.”  I thought it was a very interesting article and it reminded me of some of the things I have covered in my psychology courses.

At the end of class Chelsee suggested that we pick two of the social intelligence traits that the article mentioned that we think we excel in and one that we may be lagging in.  The list of traits we had to pick from were empathy, attunement, organizational awareness, influence, developing others, inspiration, and teamwork.  I think I excel in empathy and attunement the most out of these traits.  Empathy is when you can understand how someone else feels about a situation or their motives behind their actions.  Attunement is being able to pick up on someone else’s moods and being able to appropriately respond to them.  In my opinion though, these two traits go hand in hand a majority of the time.  It’s difficult to be empathetic towards someone without being attuned to their mood.

The trait I feel I lag the most in would have to be influence.  It may just be me, but I think I can be seen more of a friend or ally rather than someone who has some type of authority.  Influence can also be hard to judge.  Someone may not show you or tell you how you have influenced them.  Not knowing if I have influenced someone makes me a little leery of this trait. I think once next semester begins I will really know for sure if I am lagging in this trait pretty quickly.

Hope everyone had a safe Veishea weekend!