Overview

Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the understanding of how to use and manage your own emotions in positive ways to communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, defuse conflict and relieve stress. By understanding your EQ and learning about the signs in others, you can positively transform how you think, feel, engage with, influence and inspire others. Implementing the EQ knowledge we cover in the course will help you become more effective at work, by getting the best from you and other people. You’ll be able to increase your team’s performance, improve decision making and build effective workplace relationships. This will help you reduce sources of stress and conflict at work.

What will I cover?

The course will take you through three key areas of EQ – discovering what they are and how to use them effectively in person or working remotely:
• Self-awareness – harness your EQ to improve your personal communications skills and sense of wellbeing
• Social awareness – understand why people tend to behave the way they do and how to get the best from them
• Self-management – decide how to respond before you act – controlling and redirecting undesirable behaviours.

What will I learn?

• Understanding your own emotions, moods and drivers and their effect on others.
• Identify key triggers and how to manage them
• Understand different personality traits and how these affect behaviour
• Building on personality traits to communicate more effectively with everyone around you and reduce potential conflict, whether verbally or via email
• How to relate to and persuade others more easily.

For more information or to make a booking please call 0330 0947 344

Agenda
  • Registration and Trainers Welcome
  • Session 1: What is emotional intelligence and how does management of your EQ affect your performance at work?
    • Exercise: EQ and You
    • Pros and cons of your personal EQ profile – how to avoid ‘overplaying your hand’
    • How to stop creating additional stress for yourself
    • How to capitalise on your strengths
    • Exercise: Actions you can take to make your EQ profile work for you

     

  • Break
  • Session 2: Personal Communication Styles
    • Overview
    • Exercise: Why do they do that? Understanding your own style and that of others
    • Practical communication techniques to use with each style and ways to write emails and speak up in meetings that remove resistance and allow for greater collaboration
  • Break
  • Session 3: Dealing with difficult situations
    • The common ‘trip hazards’ and how you can use knowledge of EQ and personal communication styles to create rapid and long-lasting solutions
    • Exercise: Applying this in your own workplace – making you more effective over the long term
    • Exercise: Action planning – what will take you forward?
  • Close & Summary 

    *Programme Subject to change

Speakers
Trainer Profile: Lou O’Connell MBE

A very successful 22-year career in the British Army has given Lou a wealth of positive and negative experiences that shaped her interest in mental health, emotional intelligence and resilience. Operational tours of Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo, serving as a military policewoman, and later as an army welfare worker providing social and occupational welfare support to soldiers and their families have helped to give her a first-hand understanding of how to positively assist people to work well together, putting well-being first.

Lou draws on her experiences and training to provide learning and development in the workplace. She loves facilitating the learning of others and her style has been described as a breath of fresh air, honest, straight talking, down to earth, humorous yet compassionate. Never being one to sit still, since retiring from the Army in 2018 she has been chasing her dream of becoming a Registered Mental Health Nurse. Clinical placements within the NHS and private sector have given her experience of supporting those with mental illness in a number of settings such as the community, acute mental health hospitals, forensic settings and prison.

Lou has decades of voluntary experience supporting others, mainly within the bereavement and mental health fields. This was recognised in 2015 when she was awarded an MBE in the Queens New Year’s Honours List for her work with bereaved military families, an award which simultaneously embarrasses her and validates her priorities and choices made along the way.

Pricing
  • Online Fee: £249+VAT