Emotional Intelligence For Leaders

The Emotional Intelligence for Leaders course will enable you to assess and build your own emotional intelligence and leadership skills. You will learn techniques to better manage behaviours that hold you back from optimal performance.

Attendees will develop strategies to build and maintain better, more productive relationships. The course will explore effective communication and influencing techniques that can be deployed instantly in the workplace.

Developing ‘Emotional Intelligence’ skills and competencies is especially important for professionals in a leadership and management position. Leaders with a strong mixture of emotional awareness, self-management, and social skills navigate professional relationships more effectively. This skill set is a crucial component of leading highly engaged, motivated and successful teams.

Emotional Intelligence combined with technical competence enables individuals, teams and organisations to perform optimally on a consistent basis. When you are intelligent about your emotions, you’re aware that the hardest work is managing the emotions that get in the way of your best performance.

This course is thought-provoking, inspiring and explores ideas that can be applied in the real world. The course will motivate and challenge you to become a better leader.

Through attendance delegates will be able to:

• Understand and define emotional intelligence, it’s core elements and why it’s important
• Apply the concept of emotional intelligence to a positive effect in a professional environment
• Develop your own emotional awareness and self confidence
• Understand the difference between IQ and emotional intelligence and its value
• Build more effective and productive professional relationships
• Relate more effectively to colleagues
• Develop effective communication techniques and be able to communicate in an emotionally intelligent way
• Demonstrate empathy in a wide range of situations
• Understand how emotions affect behaviour and performance and techniques to manage emotions