Announcing Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Courses

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Announcing Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Courses

More than technical experience, IQ, or even postgraduate degrees, emotional intelligence (EI) has become one of the most sought after skill sets in today’s job market. It’s what distinguishes top performers and outstanding leaders.

?I recently saw an article in the Harvard Business Review analyzing 5,000 postings for managerial and executive positions. Over the last two decades, they found, job descriptions mention “soft skills” far more than “hard skills” – and this trend gains strength as time goes on. Leaders need to be good with people.

?And emotional intelligence — self-awareness, managing yourself, empathy and social effectiveness — covers all the major soft skills. Even as tech advances, the HBR article says, these emotional intelligence skills will make the differene between companies that thrive and those that disappear.

?The good news: EI is entirely learnable.

You can learn, strengthen, and apply your EI skills to get the results you want — for your current role or your next job.

That’s why I’m pleased to announce the launch of Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Courses, a series of facilitated online sessions that will guide you through your personal journey to enhancing your emotional intelligence.

?These courses — which will launch on my partner Key Step Media’s new learning platform — will enable you to cultivate the 12 emotional intelligence competencies in my EI model, which are essential for developing your best self, becoming an outstanding leader, and building high-performance teams.

?Enrollment is officially open and spots are limited.

The first cohort starts September 19. The two upcoming courses, Foundational Skills and Relational Skills of EI, are each six weeks long.

?As part of an engaged cohort and led by a trained facilitator, you can join a community of peers and experts while learning the science behind each core competency, why they matter, and how to apply them to positively differentiate yourself, build deeper relationships, and pave a path toward fundamental transformation.

?The EI skills included in the Foundational Skills Course include: Emotional Self-Awareness, Focus, Emotional Self-Control, Positive Outlook, Adaptability, and Empathy.

The EI skills included in the Relational Skills Course include: Conflict Management, Teamwork, Inspirational Leadership, Coach and Mentor, Influence, and Organizational Awareness.

Whether you’re an Emotional Intelligence Coach or Consultant, Business Leader, People Manager, HR professional, or someone interested in growing your EI, completing these courses are for you.

And to show you have completed them, you will earn a certified digital EI achievement badge for your resume.

The key skills include:

• Develop one of the most in-demand and highly valued job skills
• Master the underlying abilities that make stellar leaders
• Make better decisions to boost business outcomes
• Achieve greater self-awareness, self-worth, and values alignment
• Build positive relationships and meaningful connections
• Improve overall well-being with less stress, enhanced empathy, and effective conflict resolution

?Although developing EI happens one person at a time — it starts with you and me — our growth can be felt by all of the people in our life.

Our friends, family, and colleagues all benefit when we embody emotional intelligence.

Special early bird offer

• Use promo code GOLEMAN100 to save $100 on the 12-week, two-course bundle: Foundational Skills + Relational Skills.
• Or use promo code GOLEMAN50 to save $50 on the six-week Foundational Skills course.

Ready to jumpstart your emotional intelligence journey? Learn more here.

Onward...

AN EI RETROSPECTIVE

To support the launch of the Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Courses, I wanted to provide a series of previously published resources: articles and podcasts looking at the basics of EI and its implications for individual and collective wellbeing.

Episodes from the podcast, First Person Plural: Emotional Intelligence and Beyond

• Intro To Emotional Intelligence: here, I review the basics of emotional intelligence by sharing my model, which breaks down EI into four domains and twelve competencies.?
• Building Emotionally Intelligent Teams: here, I speak with Dr. Vanessa Druskat, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Management at the University of New Hampshire, on the elements of Emotional Intelligence which foster top-performing teams.
• The 4ALL Workplace: here, my cohost Elizabeth Solomon sits down with EVP and Chief Diversity Officer, Tony Bond, and Head of Data Science and Innovation, Marcus Erb from the Great Place to Work Institute—the consultancy and research institute behind Fortune’s 100 Best Places to Work List— to shed light on the connection between emotional intelligence, diversity, equity, belonging, inclusion and companies that are more innovative, creative, and are more likely to thrive during economic recessions.

Articles from the Archives

• What Makes a Leader?: My groundbreaking and often cited HBR article from 2004.
• What Many People (Still) Get Wrong About Emotional Intelligence: Many people assume that having emotional intelligence means being“nice.”?But this perception obscures some fundamental benefits to developing one’s EI.

Previous Interviews

• The Armchair Expert with Dax Sheppard: Dax and I sit down to discuss EI, focus, mindfulness and how our brains are wired to communicate.
• M and M Show: Listen to me, Martin & Marshall talk about emotional and social intelligence in a post corona world.