Leading With Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
1. Setting the Stage: Understanding EQ in Yourself and Workplace
Emotional Intelligence is not just about managing emotions: it involves engaging a distinct combination of emotional, personal and interpersonal skills and competencies that are essential to your leadership and management success. This module anchors the concept of EQ with a detailed assessment of your EQ strengths and opportunities for growth.
Learning Topics Include:
- Defining the 15 key EQ capabilities of outstanding leaders
- Conducting a scientifically-based emotional intelligence self assessment
- Understanding how you sabotage your own best efforts at personal change
Conducting Your EQ Self Assessment:
- A highlight of this program is applying the premiere EQ assessment tool to identify your personal leadership strengths and development areas.
2. Self Awareness and Self-Management Competencies
How well we understand ourselves is the basis of successful self management. This module teaches emotional self awareness, so you can choose effective leadership behaviours to benefit yourself, individuals you work with and the organization as a whole.
Learning Topics Include:
- Developing advanced awareness of your EQ strengths and growth edges
- Evaluating specific applications of EQ to success in your career – and where to best focus your energy
- Engaging leadership and management
3. Putting the Power of EQ into Coaching, Collaboration and Positive Influence
This module teaches you to apply EQ through three critical leadership competencies: coaching; creating powerful collaborative teams; and positively influencing others.
Learning Topics Include:
- Developing a non-anxious leadership presence
- Addressing toxic behaviours in the workplace
- Strategically managing the moods of groups and teams
- Integrating the 15 key EQ skills and competencies into your existing performance assessment framework
4. Strategic Leadership – Applying EQ to Address Your Workplace Challenges
An organization that collectively exhibits effective EQ builds capacity for sustainable organizational change and performance. This module explores how to apply your EQ to address your unique needs and challenges.
Learning Topics Include:
- Critical thinking skills
- Influencing even when you do not have authority
- Supporting the effectiveness and success of your change initiatives
- Responding to the intense emotions that accompany transition and change
5. Moving Forward – Setting Clear Action Plans for Ongoing EQ Engagement
Your EQ learning and development does not end when the program is over. This module provides you with an opportunity to set clear intentions and action plans for moving forward.
Learning Topics Include:
- Integrating your new ways of thinking and acting to enhance your leadership effectiveness back at the office
- Building on your strengths and identifying strategic areas for development
- Clarifying your vision of success and developing a customized development action plan
- Understanding how and why you may sabotage your ongoing development