2. I see emotional intelligence mostly being developed in the Self-Development Domain, though it is present in some level in all 3 domains.  This domain is where people become self-aware and start to understand who they are as a person and as a leader.  Additionally, this domain is where leaders are primarily using their experiences to grow and develop and then secondarily using their education and training to help them grow and learn from their past experiences.  Also, as it says in the reading, What Makes a Leader, emotional intelligence is split into five components, self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.  As stated before, understanding who you are plays a big role in being emotionally intelligent, as well as develop the rest of you components.  To me at least, I see motivation as mainly something innate, not really able to be taught.  False motivation can come into play in certain situations, but the way I see it that person still has innate motivational tendencies or at least cares enough about what they’re doing to want to at least appear enthusiastic.  When it comes to social skills and empathy, those can be built and improved from experience, as well as training.  Having more interaction with people and different people can improve how people communicate and interact as well as give people an idea of how other might be feeling about different situations and take that into consideration in addition to their won feelings.  Like the example in What Makes a Leader, empathy seems very unbusinesslike, but it’s not about trying to please everyone, it’s about gaining an idea of how others may feel about different things.

In terms of emotional intelligence being incorporated into Army education, I think it could work to a certain point.  Emotional intelligence, like leadership is difficult to teach.  In some cases, there is only so much that can be taught before experience will have take over as being someone’s main source of education.   That being said it is still something that should be incorporated into Army education.  If nothing less it’ll expose soldiers to this idea for those who may have never heard of it before.  Personally, I had never heard of emotional intelligence until I read the article but now I find myself thinking a lot of the time about it’s different components and how I can work on them myself.  While the definitions of what emotional intelligence is and its different components are can be easily memorized, I think at least exposing soldiers to this concept can aid in them improving their own emotional intelligence.