13. On Emotional Intelligence & Servant-Leadership

03/25/21 • 27 min

This episode is a solo episode, exploring the connection of Emotional Intelligence and Servant-Leadership.
In this episode, we break down some popular misconceptions of emotional intelligence, move towards deeper understandings of the term, and explore how fostering greater emotional intelligence might allow us to more greatly fulfill the Best Test of Servant-Leadership.
Robert Greenleaf’s Best Test of Servant-Leadership asks: “Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit, or at least not be further deprived?”
I hope you leave today’s episode with some additional characteristics of what servant-leadership might look like, and how those characteristics might be actualized out in the world and developed through fostering greater emotional intelligence.
Further Reading:

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
The EQ Edge by Steven Stein and Howard Book
Leadership Reckoning by Thomas Kolditz, Libby Gill, and Ryan Brown
Practicing Servant Leadership, edited by Larry Spears and Michele Lawrence
"What Makes A Leader?" by Daniel Goleman
"Leadership That Gets Results" by Daniel Goleman
"The Boss Factor" by Terra Allas and Bill Schaninger
"What Matters More For Entrepreneurship Success?" by Jared Allen, Regan Stevenson, Ernest O'Boyle, Scott Seibert
Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
The EQ Edge by Steven Stein and Howard Book
Leadership Reckoning by Thomas Kolditz, Libby Gill, and Ryan Brown
Practicing Servant Leadership, edited by Larry Spears and Michele Lawrence
"What Makes A Leader?" by Daniel Goleman
"Leadership That Gets Results" by Daniel Goleman
"The Boss Factor" by Terra Allas and Bill Schaninger
"What Matters More For Entrepreneurship Success?" by Jared Allen, Regan Stevenson, Ernest O'Boyle, Scott Seibert
Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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12. Shan Ray Ferch, Ph.D. - Professor of Leadership & Forgiveness Studies, Gonzaga University

This episode is a conversation with Shann Ray Ferch. I found this to be a conversation filled with kindness and healing. Dr. Ferch explores balancing love and power in healthy ways, countering inappropriate ambition and power drive, and more healthy ways of relating to and being with one another in basketball, and in our families and communities.
Dr. Shann Ferch is a Professor of Leadership & Forgiveness Studies with the internationally renowned PhD program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. Dr. Ferch has served as a visiting scholar in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, is the editor of the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Ferch is also an award-winning author of poetry, prose, and leadership and political theory. His works include Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity: Servant-Leadership as a Way of Life, American Copper, and American Masculine. Dr. Ferch played college basketball at Montana State University and Pepperdine University, and professional basketball in the German Bundesliga, one of Europe’s top professional leagues.
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Further Reading:

Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
All About Love by Bell Hooks
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf
The Servant Leader by James Autry
"The Greatest Work of Art is to Love Someone" - Shann Ferch's TED Talk

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14. Josh Prock - Eastern New Mexico

This episode is a conversation with Josh Prock. I found this to be a conversation filled with courage, that shows up as open and honest communication. Coach Prock explores his journey of opening up to feedback from others as a way of moving towards greater service to others. Along the way, he highlights the power of mutual trust and feedback, and listening first as a pathway to serving first.
Josh Prock is the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Eastern New Mexico University. Coach Prock enters his 8th season as head coach of the Greyhounds. His tenure at Eastern New Mexico features 3 NCAA tournament appearances in the last 4 seasons of competition, including the first tournament berth in school history, a Lone Star Conference championship, and Conference Coach of the Year honors in the 2016-17 season. Prior to Eastern New Mexico, Coach Prock also served as the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Howard Payne University, compiling a 108-31 record over his five seasons as head coach of the Yellow Jackets.
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