Saint Vincent's Health Australia

Assignment 1
Introduction
I interviewed Mr X. He is a Group Product Evaluator at Saint Vincent’s Health Australia. He works within the group procurement team to provide a clinical perspective, expertise, experiences input to the procurement team.
Methodology
It was a wonderful experience to interview Mr X. He works as a Group product evaluator at Saint Vincent’s Health Australia. He works within a group procurement team and his role is very challenging. The role is so critical because Mr X has to provide critique and personal opinion on many new ideas of his and his employees. Mr X’s role also involves writing out policies, for instance, policy for any products evaluation. The organisation is privately owned. I went to Mr X’s office to
* Remaining in touch with the happenings around the organisation. * Anticipating in advance that something could happen in certain areas of the organisation in future.
However, these are very common points but Mr X told me that often leaders have the tendency to forget basic principles on which a human builds relations and keeps them uniform.
Mr X told me that he often uses his emotional intelligence (Mr X knows what EI is because he is one of my colleagues and studies this course as well) to involve people in any new project and that he uses EI in regards to approaching his staff and keeping them involved. EI (Emotional Intelligence) is something that the leaders use to deal with their staff and try to discover how successful they are in their working life (Goleman, Boyzatis & McKee 2005). Mr X said that it gives you a chance to consider the concerns of staff which could hinder their performance at work. Likewise, Goleman, Boyzatis & McKee (2005) noted that EI has many other elements to it and these effect how one uses EI in that the leader must be able to contain their emotions and should be able to read others emotions as well. A leader should also know how far leader’s emotions could affect his staff. Therefore, Emotional intelligence is a wise commodity to have but only then when its possessor knows how to control and use
However, the context, how to involve people, how to work with people etc are some very important points to keep in mind for every leader. Likewise, it could also be concluded that a person could be using many leadership styles at one job without even knowing about it. However, I am surprised that the literatures that I looked at in regards to this assignment, not many refer to intelligence and its relationship to the leadership skills. Intelligence is such a vital part of anyone’s carrier because in any organisation you may go for any kind of job, the first thing that they will prefer to have a look at is your certificates and your percentage in the required fields. Likewise, there should be more study and research in regards to the context of the situation and I think if research could be done in regards to the leaders in different countries, this would give a great insight to the leadership skills and how they get moulded with time and place like what we learned from the case study at the end of module 3 in