Emotional Intelligence Leadership Skills Coaching

Following is a list of emotional intelligence skills that will be developed during the coaching sessions:

• Establish a base of insight using the a self-assessment of: knowledge, skills and abilities
• Apply skills to:
1. Read other people to identify emotions
2. Use emotions to create an environment where others take action
3. Predict emotional responses and neutralize them before they become the focal point
4. Use emotions to express passion and commitment
• Identify "automatic" self-talk messages that produce that first emotional response
• Use assertive communications skills when others are being irrational
• Use adult responses when someone is behaving as a parent or a child
• Help others act and respond in an emotionally intelligent way
  

Application

• Leadership. Of the three areas of competency; cognitive skills, expertise, and emotional intelligence, being emotionally intelligent is deemed to account for 80-90% of what differentiates effective leaders.
  
• Diversity. Being emotionally intelligent takes diversity past the tolerance stage to one of enhanced creativity: using all of your human capital.
  
• Persuading and Influencing. Anyone attempting to convince, argue, negotiate, or lead a team uses emotional intelligence. The degree by which they are emotionally intelligent will be a deciding factor in performance.