Leading with Emotional Intelligence - NEFLIN (7/19/18)

Leaders who have more insight into people, and specifically more insight into why people do what they do, are usually the most effective leaders. To gain insight into others, one needs to understand oneself first. Part of that understanding comes from one’s understanding of their emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence doesn’t mean being soft – it means being intelligent about one’s emotions – a different way of being smart. Emotional intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge from your emotions and the emotions of others in order to be more successful, especially as a leader.

Moreover, emotional intelligence is being recognized as the critical factor in the career success of leaders. It compliments cognitive intelligence (IQ) and helps leaders manage their lives better, make better decisions, and relate better with others. People have different abilities when dealing with emotions just like they have different abilities in language, logic, mathematics, and music. However, from a leadership perspective, one’s emotions should never get in the way of leading.

Participants will be able:

To define emotional intelligence
To describe the benefits of being emotionally intelligent
To describe the core components of emotional intelligence, and relate those components to scenarios at work
To identify the best practices of being emotional intelligent in the workplace
To explain what the research says about emotional intelligence, specific to the workplace
To assess their own personal emotional intelligence
To apply emotional intelligence to work related situations
To describe how to teach emotional intelligence to employees
To describe characteristics of how to influence and persuade employees at work

Trainer: Michael Clark, MRC Consulting

null Michael Clark has an extensive background in the areas of management and supervisory development, quality improvement efforts, facilitation of strategic planning sessions and executive retreats, and one-on-one executive coaching. He worked as aTraining and Performance Improvement Director for various State of Florida government agencies for many years and has been the Owner/President of MRC Consulting for fifteen years. He has designed numerous training programs (including online) using the Instructional Systems Design Methodology, and has delivered over 2000 seminars, workshops, and presentations covering a diverse set of topics, with a focus towards developing leadership skills for managers and supervisors.

Mr. Clark has earned a B. S. degree in Experimental Psychology, a M.Ed., and has completed the course work for a Ph.D. in Educational Administration with an emphasis in Instructional Systems Design Methodology at Florida State University.

Cost: NEFLIN classes are free of charge for Florida library staff. Registration is required for all classes and NEFLIN members get priority.

Registration for this workshop is FULL. To get on the waitlist, please email 1) your name, 2) your library name and 3) the name and date of this class to register@neflin.org. You will be contacted if a seat becomes available.