This is a series of courses that are specifically designed for aspiring leaders. Aspiring leaders in organizations are in a unique position to learn leadership skills precisely because they do not have the formal authority to tell people what to do. This means that they must rely on a different set of skills to influence buy-in, increase acceptance, and lead others into collaborative partnerships.
This series is built on the foundation of Emotional Intelligence. Breakthroughs in Emotional Intelligence research show us why our moods and actions have enormous impact on those we seek to influence. In fact, Emotionally Intelligent leadership allows us to inspire, arouse passion and enthusiasm, and keep people motivated and committed. Every member of an organization has the potential to be a great leader, not because of positional power, but because of the interpersonal effectiveness that comes from developing emotional competence. For this reason, we will provide participants with a foundation of Emotional Intelligence, and then explore how this relates to the various leadership challenges that participants in an emerging leadership program will face.
Participants in this program will receive a Certificate of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership once they have completed all twelve online modules.
The live online curriculum includes the following twelve, 90-minute modules:
1. Emotional Intelligence Overview
This first session is designed to provide participants with a foundational understanding of emotional intelligence and how it links to leadership.
Learning Objectives
• Explore the 4-domain model of Emotional Intelligence
• Understand how Emotional Intelligence relates to leadership effectiveness
• Distinguish between dissonant and resonant leadership
• Learn the four styles of leadership that create resonance in relationships
2. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Self-Awareness
This session provides participants with self-awareness tools to assess areas of strength as well as developmental goals. Participants will discover leadership strengths and set goals for how they will develop themselves throughout the 12-module series.
Learning Objectives
• Learn the emotional competencies that support the four different styles of resonant leadership
• Discuss leadership strengths and emotional competencies that are already well developed
• Identify and discuss which leadership styles and emotional competencies participants want to develop during the program.
3. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Self-Management
Leadership begins with modeling the way. It is difficult to create an emotionally positive climate for others if you cannot even manage your own emotions. This session builds on self-awareness with applications for effective self-management.
Learning Objectives
• Discuss how emotions impact behavior, performance, and interpersonal effectiveness
• Learn cognitive strategies to manage disruptive emotions that threaten leadership success
• Learn behavioral strategies to manage disruptive emotions that threaten leadership success
4. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Social-Awareness and Engagement
The indispensable emotional competency that supports all effective leadership is empathy. This session transitions from understanding yourself and modeling the way to understanding others and knowing how to create an environment that meets the key emotional needs of others and therefore encourages engagement.
Learning Objectives
• Discover why empathy is the foundational emotional competence of all influence and leadership
• Learn how to identify core emotional needs in others such as autonomy, significance, mastery and relationship
• Learn how to create a motivating emotional climate
5. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Influence and Leadership
In this session participants will learn principles and strategies that allow them to influence others without authority.
Learning Objectives
• Explore and discuss the factors that create influence
• Learn influencing strategies and principles
• Learn how to lead without authority
6. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Collaboration and Teamwork
In this session participants will explore best processes, effective communication practices, tools and strategies that enable them to influence collaboration, engage team members, manage differences, and collectively achieve results.
Learning Objectives
• Learn how to build trust as a foundation for effective teamwork
• Develop your ability to facilitate productive conflict and lead others into collaborative agreements
• Learn how to balance advocacy with inquiry to empower team members
7. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Leading Change
It is usually easier to introduce change than it is to lead others through change. This session will provide participants with the understanding and tools needed to help people navigate the uncharted territories of change with courage and resilience.
Learning Objectives
• Delineate the difference between change and transition
• Gain empathy and insight into what people need as they go through the process of transition
• Learn tools for meeting these needs and helping others to successfully navigate the transitional journey
8. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Accountability
This session is designed to help participants create teams that practice collective accountability for achieving key organizational results in spite of difficult circumstances and challenging obstacles.
Learning Objectives
• Develop a positive approach to creating collective accountability among team members
• Learn how to handle difficult accountability conversations with a positive proactive attitude
• Discover why the key to maintaining accountability is to clearly define goals, expectations and results, and to align daily work objectives with those results
• Learn the four key steps to managing accountability
9. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Coaching
This session engages participants in an exploration of their role as performance coaches. Marilee Adam's book: Change Your Questions, Change Your Life provides the framework for participants to develop a customized set of coaching strategies that they can employ to create a culture of coaching and feedback.
Learning Objectives
• Create a learning environment in the workplace balancing advocacy with inquiry
• Ask powerful questions to uncover new facts and options
• Explore skills for effective performance coaching
10. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Different, Diverse and Sometimes Difficult People
We all know that diversity can be a tremendous source of collective creativity and insight, but research also shows that our diversity also has the potential to disrupt group functioning. In this session, we will answer the question: how can we leverage diversity in ways that lead to positive outcomes and more effective group performance?
Learning Objectives
• Explore four different personality, workstyle differences, and six difficult personas within these personality types
• Discuss and apply strategies for working effectively with all types of people
• Increase your options for understanding and managing relationships with others
11. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Managing Conflict
Conflict has been described as a dangerous opportunity. When people resolve conflicts quickly and respectfully with a positive attitude, they become better working partners and increase their productivity. This session is designed to engage participants in an exploration of the tools and strategies that enable us to overcome the obstacles and focus on the opportunities of conflict.
Learning Objectives
• Respect constructive conflict as a necessary component of effective teamwork
• Understand one’s own strategy in resolving conflict and the dynamic that this strategy creates when working with other people
• Learn strategies for managing difficult conversations
12. Emotional Intelligence: Focus on Extending Your Influence
All participants in this series have established themselves as domain experts in some specific part of the organization and they are probably being challenged to build connections, nurture relationships, and extend their value to the organization and to the people they serve. This session is intended to help participants plan forward to how they will build their networks, manage their careers and continue to extend their influence throughout the organization.
Learning Objectives
• Connect to individual strengths, passions and the unique value that these strengths bring to the organization
• Understand the current scope of your professional network
• Evaluate your network and develop a strategy for further building and improving your network in order to extend your value
• Develop a format for more effectively communicating how your talents, skills, knowledge, and experience can add value to others in the organization |