Demystifying Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Leadership Impact
Demystifying Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Leadership Impact
Emotional intelligence among nurse leaders is essential to sustaining healthy work environments where faculty, staff, and learners can all make optimal contributions by fully expressing their emotional selves. This module provides a pragmatic immersion into the concept of emotional intelligence and how to leverage this capacity to strengthen interpersonal relationships, build productive teams, and diffuse conflict. Discover how to sharpen leadership skills by learning how to understand and regulate emotional response, strengthen self-awareness, and promote personal growth.
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Describe the impact of emotional intelligence on leadership effectiveness.
- Identify ways to enhance one’s awareness of emotional intelligence.
- Apply the emotional intelligence blueprint as an academic nursing leader.
Author: Joan Vitello, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAHA, FAAN
Experts Interviewed:
- David Caruso, PhD
- Estelle Codier, PhD
Leadership Development Modules
Sharpen your leadership skills using this on-demand series designed exclusively for nursing deans, faculty, and graduate students. Modules will enrich your understanding of key principles and practices needed for leaders to succeed in the academic arena. AACN has developed this series in conjunction with seasoned experts who offer guidance and practical strategies on how to navigate real-world challenges and amplify your effectiveness. Content is designed to stimulate fresh thinking and provide solutions to some of your most pressing challenges. This resource was developed for nursing professionals at all levels, including those aspiring to leadership roles.
Author: Joan Vitello, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAHA, FAAN
Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Nursing, UMASS Medical School
Dr. Joan Vitello is Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Nursing at UMASS Medical School. Dr. Vitello maintains a 39-year history of nursing leadership in the clinical arena serving as a Chief Nursing Officer at three community hospitals, a critical care CNS, a nursing director, and nurse manager. Dr. Vitello has extensive experience as a clinical researcher and, for ten years, as a co-editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. Dr. Vitello is a global scholar, presenting papers on topics ranging from leadership, emotional intelligence, and organizational change to cardiovascular, emergency and nursing issues. Joan served as the 25th President of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). During her tenure (1994/95) AACN had approximately 78,000 members.
Dr. Vitello received her associate degree from Massasoit Community College, her BSN from the University of Massachusetts and was awarded her MSN from the University of Alabama in Birmingham in Cardiovascular/Critical Care. She received her M.A. in Organizational Development and her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems from The Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California.
Dr. Vitello received numerous awards and recognitions in healthcare including:
- The 2009 Living Legend in Massachusetts Nursing by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses.
- The Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Nursing
- One of three women to earn the Woman Making a Difference by the Malden Zonta International Organization
- Distinguished Scholar at Regis College
- One of 60 Visionary Leaders out of 10,000 alumni at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
Expert: David Caruso, PhD
David is a psychologist, research affiliate at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Senior Advisor to the Dean of Yale College and the co-founder of Emotional Intelligence (EI) Skills Group. David is the co-author of the Mayer, Salovey, Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). He and colleague Peter Salovey wrote the book, The Emotionally Intelligent Manager. He is a co-author (with Lisa Rees) of The Leader’s Guide to Solving Challenges with Emotional Intelligence, co-author (with Lisa Rees and David Adams) of The Educator’s Practical Guide to Emotional Intelligence and co-author of The Anchors of Emotional Intelligence school-based EI training program (Brackett, Caruso & Stern). David has published over 50 articles - peer reviewed journal articles, reviews and chapters - on the topics of emotional intelligence and leadership. David conducts emotional intelligence training and he has trained thousands of professionals around the world from Brazil to Ireland to China to Russia. He has spoken at Lockheed Martin, World Economic Forum, Google, Procore, Sberbank, Yale School of Medicine, MD Anderson, US Coast Guard Academy and USCIS. David was a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development pre-doctoral fellow and received a Ph.D. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. He was then awarded a National Institute of Mental Health fellowship and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in Developmental Psychology at Yale University working with Robert Sternberg and Edward Zigler. After completing his post-doctoral fellowship David was a research affiliate in the Department of Psychology at Yale. He next held positions in market research, strategic planning, and product management for a Fortune 200 company, a mid-sized market research organization and a HR consulting firm. In these roles he led numerous product development teams, developed and implemented marketing plans and introduced new products in the United States and Europe with P&L responsibility. As a VP of Assessment and independent consultant he has provided management assessment services to hundreds of executives in a variety of industries.
Expert: Estelle Codier, PhD, MSN, RN
Dr. Codier is one of the early innovators in the field of nursing emotional intelligence, and has presented her research in this field both nationally and internationally. Her research provided the first evidence that measured emotional intelligence correlates with performance and retention in clinical staff nurses. Further research explored the role of emotional intelligence in nurse managers (funded by AONE in 2009-10) and in clinical oncology unit practice. An ongoing multisite study explores the emotional intelligence of nursing students. In 2007, Dr. Codier was in Who’s Who of Health Sciences Academia. In 2008, she was nominated for the University of Hawaii Excellence in Teaching Award. She was also nominated and recommended for the Francis Davis Teaching Award from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 2010, Dr. Codier was accepted as a fellow in the Consortium for Emotional Intelligence, a world consortium of 60 top researchers in the field of Emotional Intelligence research. Dr. Codier was once again nominated for the University of Hawaii Excellence in Teaching award for 2012. Dr. Codier has an additional interest in the use of Multi User Virtual Environments (MUVE) and avatars in nursing education, for which she received pilot seed grant funds from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and subsequent funding to expand on her pilot research from the NLN.
Pricing and Continuing Education
$75.00
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. The entire module and assessment must be completed to earn contact hours. This module is approved 1.5 Nursing Continuing Professional Development Hours.