Are you an emotionally strong leader?

Many see the words "emotional" and "strong" as contradictory terms that do not belong together when describing leaders who can transform their own lives, the lives of their colleagues, and the future of their business for the better.

After all, how can anything to do with feelings be the key to unlocking personal and collective success?

Well, it’s essential to learn how to be in the driver’s seat of your feelings and understand how to lead with a strong mind and a kind heart while using a set of clear, simple, and tested skills and strategies. Doing so will allow you to connect more authentically and communicate more effectively with your coworkers and teams. This kind of connection and communication will create an environment of trust and belonging that will spur engagement, spike curiosity, and engender fraternity among team members. That is what leading with emotional intelligence (EI) looks like, and this series teaches you how to enhance your EI skills and become the emotionally strong leader you always envisioned you could be.

Working in tandem with the book The Emotionally Strong Leader, An Inside-Out Journey to Transformational Leadership*, we will cover the six-step self-coaching model to enhance your emotional intelligence. Coaching yourself through the model will help you uncover your barriers to growth and change, set goals for yourself, and tap into your motivation, giving you the tools and drive to manage the hurdles life throws at you. As life changes and your emotions evolve, this framework will continue to serve you as a powerful tool you can continually call upon throughout the seasons of your life.

*The book is not included in the course materials.  Participants are required to purchase their own copy.  

THE SELF-COACHING MODEL

Our model is a personal, step-by-step process where you first identify the specific emotional skills that impact your life and career. All of us have distinct strengths and areas for growth at different points in our life and for all kinds of different situations. 

In each of the classes, our framework will provide you with a structure that will allow you to explore whatever your emotional challenges are at this moment thoroughly and from many angles.

This six-step self-coaching model—adapted from emotional intelligence courses Stern developed for major universities and corporations across North America—and is backed by decades of field experience and top science on emotions and behaviour. Stern's engaging, results-based approach has been synthesized here for the first time in a user-focused, self-coaching model that will motivate and inspire professionals to apply the power of emotional intelligence to their own leadership and organizations.

FORMAT

This program will allow you to gain a deeper understanding of how your emotions impact your workplace behaviours and those of your peers and put your learned emotional insights into action through discussions, activities, case studies, workplace examples, and personalized action plans.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Fully online, on-demand learning program 
• Pre- and post-work to complement each module 
• Interactive learning modules and resources along the way

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Discover the systemic problems with ignoring emotions in the workplace. 
• Learn why emotions matter and reduce the fear of tending to them at work. 
• Identify the emotional skills and mental strategies to be stronger than your feelings. 
• Gain a deeper awareness of your emotional makeup and how that helps and hurts your leadership effectiveness.