AAN Emotional Intelligence
Mary Rensel 
Resources for Neurologist Emotional Intelligence, Know Self for Authentic Leadership
AAN 2024
Knowing Self to Unlock the Power of Authentic Leadership
Dr. Mary Rensel
Emotional Self Awareness
Monitor your emotions throughout the work day
Recognize the impact of your emotions at work
Clarify values to gain insight, focus and connections
Core Values Matter, Find Values that Speak to YOU!
Core Values are your “line in the sand”, they describe your character.
Core Value List:
1. Read over the values below, look for the ones that “speak to you", the ones that describe your character or how you guide your decisions.
2. From the list below, choose and circle every core value that resonates with you. Do not overthink your selections. As you read through the list, simply write down the words that feel like a core value to you personally. If you think of a value you possess that is not on the list, be sure to write it down as well.
Abundance Acceptance Accountability Achievement Advancement Adventure Advocacy Ambition Appreciation Attractiveness Autonomy Balance Being the Best Benevolence Boldness Brilliance Calmness Caring Challenge Charity Cheerfulness Cleverness Community Commitment Compassion Cooperation Collaboration Consistency Contribution Creativity Credibility Curiosity
Daring Decisiveness Dedication Dependability Diversity Empathy Encouragement Enthusiasm Ethics Excellence Expressiveness Fairness Family Friendships Flexibility Freedom Fun Generosity Grace Growth Flexibility Happiness Health Honesty Humility Humor Inclusiveness Independence Individuality Innovation Inspiration Intelligence
Intuition Joy Kindness Knowledge Leadership Learning Love Loyalty Making a Difference Mindfulness Motivation Optimism Open-Mindedness Originality Passion Performance Personal Development Proactive Professionalism Quality Recognition Risk
Taking Safety Security Service Spirituality Stability Peace Perfection Playfulness Popularity Power
Preparedness Proactivity Professionalism Punctuality Recognition Relationships Reliability Resilience Resourcefulness Responsibility Responsiveness Security Self-Control Selflessness Simplicity Stability Success Teamwork Thankfulness Thoughtfulness Traditionalism Trustworthiness Understanding Uniqueness Usefulness Versatility Vision Warmth Wealth Well-Being Wisdom Zeal
3. Work in the table below; Group all similar values together from the list of values you just circled. Group them in a way that makes sense to you, personally. Create a maximum of five groupings. If you have more than five groupings, drop those least important. See the example below.
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 5 |
4. Choose one word within each grouping that best represents the label for the entire group. Again, do not overthink your labels. There are no right or wrong answers. You are defining the answer that is right for you. Circle the one word that best represents the label for the group.
5. Read over the groups and the one that you circled as the label for each group, do these values drive your days? These values should be your core values or your “lines in the sand”. These core values build your character and help you with decisions each day. It is important to know your core values.
My Personal Core Values, write down the “labels” or core values for each group in the table.
1. __________________________________
2. __________________________________
3. __________________________________
4. __________________________________
5. __________________________________
Accurate Self Assessment
Internal reality vs external behavior
Strength assessments (ie. Clifton Strengths)
Accountability team
Professional qualities that are important to YOU!
Rank in order 1-9
rank from 1 (most important) to 9 (least important) nine professional qualities (concern, compassion, competence, advocacy, confidentiality, spirit of enquiry, integrity, responsibility and commitment)
1.___________________________________________________
2.___________________________________________________
3.___________________________________________________
4.___________________________________________________
5.___________________________________________________
6. ____________________________________________________
7._________________________________________________________ 8.________________________________________________________9._______________________________________________________
Self Leadership
Build a sound sense of one’s self worth and capabilities
Manage self to create more meaning and connectedness
Envision and move toward your ideal self
Purpose Activity
What is your first name?_______
What do you do?_____________
(What is the one thing right now that you feel supremely qualified to teach other people?)
Who do you do it for?_______________
What do they want or need?________________
How do they change or transform as a result of working with you?__________
Think about how you structure your days, are your core values and professional qualities leading your decisions and how you spend your time?
Let’s put this together so your decisions and actions make more sense and are directed by what is important to YOU!
Print this page out and hang near your desk and take a pic and have it in your phone.
Refer to this table when you are asked to take on a project.
Does the project align with your values, strengths and top professional qualities for YOU?
When there is alignment, proceed.
If there are no alignments, reconsider and say NO.
Resources
Books
References:
Loehr, J., & Schwartz, T. (2001). The making of a corporate athlete. Harvard business review, 79(1), 120-129.
Shanafelt, T., Trockel, M., Rodriguez, A., & Logan, D. (2021). Wellness-centered leadership: Equipping health care leaders to cultivate physician well-being and professional fulfillment. Academic Medicine, 96(5), 641–651.
Borg, I., & Bardi, A. (2016). Should ratings of the importance of personal values be centered?. Journal of Research in Personality, 63, 95-101.
Websites:
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/impactwellbeing/professional-wellbeing.html
https://www.who.int/activities/promoting-well-being
https://hbr.org/2007/11/cognit...;
https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-practice-mindfulness-throughout-your-work-day
https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/
https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/module/2702556
Values Assessment:
https://www.mededportal.org/do...
Strengths Assessment:
Clifton Strengths, 19.00
https://store.gallup.com/c/en-us/cliftonstrengths
Books | Podcasts | YouTube |
Start with Why, Simon Sinek | Insights and Inspirations, Cleveland Clinic | Exercise |
Growth Mindset, Carol Dweck | Brave Enough | Food and Brain |
Stay Hungry & Kick Burnout in the Butt, Berglas | EntreMD | Anger to Action |
Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman | White Coat Investor | Emotions |
Design your Work Life, Burnett and Evans | The Moth | Impressions Values: |
Flaming Hot, Montanez | Neurology Podcast | Moral Injury |