Chapter I: Leader
Welcome to week 1 of the Leadership English course! Have you ever wondered what skills and personality traits make a good leader? This week’s focus is on the concept of emotional intelligence, which scientists most closely associate with leadership success. The three parts of this course – Activate, Build, and Extend – will slowly build up your expertise from easy to more advanced topics. In Activate part you will learn about emotions and how to recognize and control them, Build part will focus on self-awareness and how to develop it. Extend part will show how to use it to give and receive negative feedback.
This week, you will:
- learn about how emotional intelligence helps leadership;
- practice self-awareness;
- practice to control your emotions at work;
- practice giving and receiving negative feedback
- practice reading, listening, speaking, and writing.