EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE & mBRAINING
When leaders drive emotions positively they bring out everyone’s best. When they drive emotions negatively, leaders obtain the opposite effect. Therefore, a basic competency for any leader is knowing how to positively drive his/her emotions and behaviours to be personally and interpersonally effective.
No matter what leaders set out to do, their success depends on HOW they do it” […]Leaders’ emotional states and actions affect how the people they lead will feel and therefore perform
- DANIEL GOLEMAN -
Emotional intelligence is about:
- Self-awareness – recognising your own emotions and how they affect your thoughts and behavior, knowing your strengths and weaknesses, and having self-confidence.
- Self-management – being able to control impulsive feelings and behaviors, managing your emotions in healthy ways, taking initiative, following through on commitments, and adapting to changing circumstances.
- Social awareness – understanding the emotions, needs, and concerns of other people, picking up on emotional cues, feeling comfortable socially, and recognising the dynamics in a group or organisation.
- Relationship management – knowing how to develop and maintain good relationships, communicate clearly, inspire and influence others, work well in a team, and manage conflict.
Like any skill emotional intelligence can be developed. It requires practice and repetition.
I help leaders develop their emotional intelligence so that they can lead themselves and their teams more effectively.
As a JCA certified professional I use the following tools:
- Emotional Intelligence profile
- Emotional Intelligence profile 360
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
mBRAINING
In an ever-changing marketplace, leaders today are faced with increasingly complex challenges. Adaptability, quick decision-making, empathy, effective people management and intercultural agility are just a few skills leaders cannot succeed without. A new way of leading requires leaders to be true to themselves and use greater wisdom in their decision-making.
I support leaders access such greater wisdom by using mBIT - multiple Brain Integration Techniques. A set of tools and techniques developed on the basis of the latest neuroscience findings, for communicating with and integrating the power of our multiple brains: head, heart and gut intelligences.