Emotional Intelligence For Increased Effectivity (Two Day Workshop)

Managers are increasingly overwhelmed by the pace at which they need to perform and the pressure of achieving results can be stressful and lead to people reacting negatively to situations and one another. Cultivating emotional intelligence skills is relevant for every manager as it relates to every human interaction from team meetings to employee motivation and engagement, to customer service and has many far reaching benefits that impacts on a company’s growth and success. Increasing a managers EQ helps a manager grow their emotional and social intelligence so that they are more resistant to change, so that they respond mindfully and wisely instead of reacting unconsciously to situations. Managers with high EQ are better equipped to be successful in today’s VUCA world.

Companies are growing tomorrows leaders today by investing in EQ training to foster these critical competencies that can be learnt.

This 16 hour Emotional Intelligence For Increased Effectivity is a focused, dynamic, and highly practical workshop for managers.

Learn EQ Competencies and to:

• Know yourself better;
• Lead with greater awareness from the inside-out;
• Understand the importance of self management;
• Check in around self management competencies;
• Learn how to understand peers and colleagues better;
• Understand how can adapt to others;
• Gain skills to communicate more effectively;
• Practice these skills.

Target Audience

Every manager has areas of improvement. This programme is run within organisations who invest in managers and employees to cultivate critical competencies that can be learnt and practiced. This workshop can be run with a team or managers from different divisions.

Learning Objectives

The programme is centered on cultivating EQ skills.

Part 1 – Introduction

Introducing Emotional Intelligence.

• What is Emotional Intelligence?
• Understanding why these are key competencies and how they can assist managers in being successful from the inside out.
• Exploring Daniel Goleman’s model of Emotional Intelligence.
• Introduction to other models that use colors to gain insight into yourself and your peers.

Part 2 – Self Awareness

This module is centered on understanding and increasing Self Awareness.

• Understanding the importance of building self awareness.
• How to build self awareness.
• Introducing Mindfulness as integral to building self awareness.
• Learning my colors.
• Implementing Informal Mindfulness Practices @work for introspection, centered on principles of self awareness leading to self-correcting behaviour and increased self management.
• More Practices enabling us to monitor and observe ourselves better.

Part 3 – Self Management

Connect better with your teams and your peers.
This module is centered on Increasing Self Management Skills.

• Connecting self awareness to self management.
• Emotional Mastery.
• Inquiring into my self management competencies.
• Creating a path to improving this skillset.

Part 4 – Social Awareness

This module is centered on understanding and increasing Social Awareness.

• Understanding perception and subjectivity.
• Disengaging from limiting thoughts, beliefs and behaviours.
• Learning about my colleague’s differences through colors.
• Building Empathy.
• Being aware of the impact I have on others.

Part 5 – Relationship Management

Putting it all together.

• Concept of holism and pursuing excellence in both our personal and professional lives.
• Managing from a place of authenticity, integrity and responsibility.
• Engaging teams through mindful communication including listening with curiosity, non-judgmentally to peers and team.
• Implementing Informal Mindfulness Practices @work for connecting better and building empathy. Practices centered on principles of building social awareness, leading to self-correcting behaviour and increased relationship management.
• Defining unique goals and practices for life and work.

Workshop Benefits

Building Emotional Intelligence influences everything and everyone we interact with, and leading to increases in:

• Organization management;
• Respect and trust;
• Productivity;
• Social intelligence;
• Interpersonal Communication;
• Colleague support;
• Resolving conflict situations.