Emotionally intelligent leadership

How good are you at motivating and managing yourself and the people around you to higher performance and greater purpose?

Being able to manage your emotional state is one of the greatest contributors to personal excellence. Harnessing and developing your emotional intelligence is the critical differentiator of success in identifying leadership potential and qualities such as decisiveness, empowering others and leading through change. Emotionally intelligent leaders are:

• Better and more inspiring leaders
• Better negotiators and more successful in influencing others
• Better at resolving workplace conflict and leading effective teams.

What will delegates learn?

This powerful introduction will raise awareness and understanding of the merit of accessing and developing your emotional intelligence, and how it can add genuine value to relationships, goal achievement and business success.

• Understand the key concepts
• Broaden your awareness of the role of emotional intelligence at work
• Discover more about your own emotional intelligence
• Establish ways of enhancing your personal effectiveness with emotional intelligence including through communication and influencing skills
• Explore the practical application of emotional intelligence at work
• Create your own unique action plan, enabling you to transfer emotional intelligence tools and techniques to the workplace, helping you to become a more effective leader.

People who will benefit from attending this course are:

• Chief executives
• Board chairs and members
• Senior and middle managers
• Team and project leaders.

Our trainers

Georgia Parker

Georgia is a highly experienced, qualified and successful trainer, coach and facilitator with an extensive background in the social housing sector. She specialises in organisational, team and personal development, through training programmes, team building and one-to-one interventions from board level to frontline supervisors. She trains emotional intelligence and inspiring leadership programmes to a wide range of organisations, including several in the Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for. As a Master NLP Practitioner and coach, Georgia brings a practical approach to the topic, helping participants understand themselves better and therefore lead more effectively.

Michael Guest

Michael has significant experience of leadership in both the public and independent sectors. As a holder of three chief officer positions, he practised emotionally intelligent leadership, including in organisational cultures where this was not the norm. As a consultant and trainer he has been responsible for advising and supporting a range of boards of housing associations and ALMOs and their executive teams, and elected members of local authorities, to successfully develop their leadership skills and capacity. Michael has coached chairs of boards and senior managers and is a registered mentor for senior housing professionals.

HQN has a track record of helping organisations achieve real and lasting performance improvements. If you are interested in accessing this training package please contact us by emailing training@hqnetwork.co.uk