Spectacular Leadership Strategies

This day-long leadership intensive provides the information critical to building true leadership skills, including:

  • Effective approaches to manage conflict
  • Effective decision-making skills that acknowledge that emotions color every decision
  • Managerial issues which provide the tools to manage emotions and recognize the emotions of team members
  • Self management techniques to help weather the stressful aspects of your job

The sessions are engaging and interactive while providing practical steps for improving leadership skills. Each participant will have a personal action plan to implement and a partner to maintain accountability. After 21 days, you receive a personal session with the instructor to discuss your success!

About Emotional IntelligenceWe have all come to believe that intelligence, or IQ, is an important factor in our success. Amazingly, recent research suggests just the opposite – that intelligence, as measured by one’s IQ, has little to do with success in business.  Rather, it is the Emotional Intelligence, or EQ, that accounts for up to 85% of a businessperson’s career success.  Think about some of the most successful people you know – they may not have an Ivy League degree, but most likely, they are adept at understanding their own feelings and reading the moods of other people around them.  The good news is that, unlike IQ, you can improve your EQ with conscious effort!

The leader’s emotional intelligence sets the tone for the rest of the work group. Through recent research, we know that a positive working environment enhances a team’s ability to perform. The leader’s ability to manage their own emotions and recognize the emotions of team members is an important ingredient in the overall effectiveness, productivity and efficiency of the team.

Spectacular Leadership Strategies provides an introduction to the leadership skills that can turn a poorly performing team or department into one that provides bottom-line benefits to the organization. The Spectacular Leadership Strategies training addresses several major issues that plague workgroups and create chaos for even the most effective leaders. These include poor customer satisfaction, low employee morale and stress in the support center. Additionally, this class addresses the issue of low performing teams and low productivity. After attending this class, you’ll understand why emotional intelligence is a foundation for a highly productive team, and you’ll learn practical skills that help you lead and manage a high performance workforce.

This day-long workshop will not only introduce concepts of emotional intelligence, but will also provide participants with practical steps to improve their leadership skills and foster more productive teams. In addition, participants will receive exercises to complete individually, with a partner or with a team, over a period of 30 days.The training sessions are interactive, fun and engaging. Brio Leadership licenses excerpts from Hollywood movies to demonstrate the effects of positive and negative emotional intelligence skills. Viewing movie clips allows participants to analyze concepts presented, discuss the actor’s responses to emotional triggers, and internalize the lessons learned. This is a powerful learning device in the classroom.This seminar includes a self-assessment of each participant’s EQ rating. Brio Leadership uses TalentSmart’s The Emotional Intelligence Appraisal, which is composed of twenty-eight questions presented in an online format. The online appraisal includes e-learning modules, the ability to enter action plans and track progress toward goals. Each participant will receive an emailed link to the assessment two weeks prior to the seminar. All participants must complete the appraisal and bring a printed copy of their summary reports to the seminar.For more information on Spectacular Leadership Strategies, please call Brio Leadership at 817-577-7030 or complete an information request form by clicking here.

The training includes the following modules:

Unit One: Emotional Intelligence ConceptsWhat is emotional intelligence, and why is it so important? A leader must be aware that her emotional maturity affects the group’s mood, which in turn affect’s the group’s productivity. Our current understanding of brain physiology provides fascinating insights into our emotional make-up. It explains why we react quickly to emotional stimulus and how our physical reactions are closely tied to our emotions. In this introduction, we discover why the emotional intelligence of the leader is so important to business success. We also discuss and experience the workings of our brains through discussion and exercises.

Unit Two: First, Know ThyselfHoward Gardner of Harvard University first posited the concept of multiple intelligences. Each human being has different strengths and weaknesses, making each person unique. In order to understand how our emotions work, we need to first understand ourselves. In this module, we discover how the body’s reactions provide clues to the emotions we are feeling. In addition, we learn ways to become more aware of emotions as they happen. We review the results of the EQ assessment that participants completed prior to the seminar.Unit Three: Self- Management Once identified, our emotions need to be managed – they cannot rule us if we want to be emotionally intelligent. In this unit, we examine several aspects of self-management, including:· Restraint and resilience· The power of a positive attitude· Tolerating negative emotions and how to handle themMost self-management techniques are a variation of the “count to ten before speaking” theme. We explore together the best ways to deal immediately with a stressor or emotional trigger, and discover the best ways to deal with the second wave of reaction that sets in over time. Included in this unit is a stress management assessment that helps participants identify the major areas of their work and personal life that might be out of balance.Unit Four: Social AwarenessOnly after some success in identifying and managing our own emotions are we able to move into the area of awareness of other people’s emotions. We examine the open loop aspect of our brains that allows us to share and magnify emotions and moods. The mood of the participant’s workplace is examined in order for the leaders in the seminar to become more aware of how they affect it. We discuss and experience the benefits of using effective listening and empathy to become a more effective leader.Unit Five: Relationship SuccessLeading with emotional intelligence does not mean that the leader should never convey anger. We view and discuss movie scenes in which a leader uses anger effectively to focus team members on goals. Because our informal relationships within the workplace contribute to our effectiveness as leaders, we map our working relationships to identify where new connections might be helpful. We close the seminar with a teamwork exercise that leaves everyone with positive emotions!

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