Flex Your EQ Muscles

I love helping my clients enhance their EQ. Tomorrow I have the opportunity to speak to and work with 100+ leaders who will gather with their peers in an experiential learning session to safely practice emotional intelligence (EQ). The ultimate purpose is for each member to increase their understanding of EQ, what it is and how emotions define leaders and the experience they create for others and the bottom line results they seek from others.

One of the highlights of the session will be to demonstrate what emotional intelligence IS NOT in order to make the point of what EQ IS. We will identify EQ facets and use exercises to demonstrate the importance of words and phrases such as assertiveness, empathy, emotional expressiveness, independence, flexibility, stress tolerance, emotional self-awareness, social responsibility, self-regard, self-actualization, impulse control, interpersonal relationships, problem-solving, reality testing, and optimism.

In addition we’ll flex those psychological muscles through entertaining and educational low ROPES (problem solving) exercises as well as watching soundbites from TedTalks and YouTube videos that help visualize what EQ IS and IS NOT. Our attention will be focused on relevant exercises where team or interpersonal tensions may safely and confidentially surface and through effective facilitation, those stressors can go a long way to being clarified and better understood and, ultimately resolved.

Can you really enhance your EQ? YES!

The Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) is the first scientifically validated and most widely used emotional intelligence assessment based on more than 20 years of research and examines an individual’s social and emotional strengths and weaknesses. I’m certified to administer the EQ-i and there is rich scholarly evidence concerning the ROI of enhanced EQ. Companies such as American Express, Center for Creative Leadership, L’Oreal and the United States Air Force have all evaluated key emotional intelligence characteristics that define high-performing leaders and their results have demonstrated that ROI significantly increases in direct proportion to enhanced EQ performance.

So what happens tomorrow?

Participants will receive valuable data to help them assess their EQ, identify the gaps between what they’re doing and where they want to be more emotionally intelligent and create a plan of action to enhance specific behaviors. The best part is that all these leader participants are all from the same company and they have the unique opportunity to reinforce new behaviors with one another and immediately see the benefits of enhanced EQ.

Working in peer groups on leadership development is an EQ win-win! Are you up for flexing your EQ muscles?

Contact me at 405-701-2999 to schedule your next EQ leadership development event.