Emotional Intelligence: New Season, New Trainings

Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence – My Online Course

Want to learn the basics of emotional intelligence? Or master the EI-based competencies that distinguish star performers?

My flagship online course—now available in Spanish as well as English—teaches you in minutes a day the keys to emotional intelligence: self-awareness, self-management, empathy and social skills, and the workplace competencies for high performance based on these. The courses begin September 16.?

Coaches can get up to 40 CEUs from ICF, Human Resources professionals get up to 41.5 PDCs from SHRM. When you complete the course, you will get a digital badge showing your knowledge of emotional intelligence.

Josee, a business owner, calls the EI course the “best gift” she ever gave herself. She sees a shift in all her relationships, from her family to her management team, in how she communicates, engages and connects.?

Register here.

Onward..

An In-Person Experience?

I’ll be doing a rare personal presentation on September 28 and 29, in a weekend workshop with my wife Tara Bennett-Goleman.?Come Join us if you’re in the New York City area–at the Aligned Center in Irvington, about a 30-minute train ride from Manhattan. Details are here.

We’ll be focusing on everyday emotions like anger and anxiety, as well as the emotional habits that can connect us or keep us at a distance from ourselves and others. When such habits activate we react to symbolic threats as though they were real—e.g., the fear of abandonment triggers exaggerated fearfulness and thoughts of losing someone.

Even if they may not make rational sense, these patterns have an emotional reality; understanding them can yield insights in our own and others’ vulnerabilities and help us respond with empathy, understanding, and caring.

Reparative interventions from ancient wisdom traditions and modern psychology can allow for insight and connection rather than confusion and reactivity.

Regenerative qualities, including insight, equanimity and a warm and caring heart, can lead us to an inner calm and wiser perspective, even as we sense the signals of these emotional habits.

We can embrace underlying unsettling feelings with care, kindness, and a non-judgmental awareness that can help to free our minds and hearts.

We will be joined by RJ Sadowski and his horse in a two-hour demonstration on the importance of psychological safety— a ‘joined up’, authentic and attuned connection— in relationships of all kinds.

Join us.

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The Optimal Leader

Back when I wrote the book Emotional Intelligence, there were barely any research studies for the power of EI in leadership. Now, more than 25 years later, there are hundreds.

Here are some highlights. To learn more see my article in the current Leader to Leader.

Research finds that benefits of emotionally intelligent leadership include:

• Higher employee performance?
• Greater job satisfaction and lower turnover
• Better engagement
• Great morale and better moods
• “Good citizenship” – going beyond job requirements to help co-workers
• Increased profit and growth

Along these lines, combining the results of dozens of studies into a single analysis reveals that the higher a leader’s emotional intelligence, the better their workers perform.

Among 65,000 entrepreneurs, the higher their EI the better their financial success—and EI was twice as important as IQ. And higher EI in a leader predicts employee wellbeing.

That wellbeing means people are more often in an optimal state, where they are not only highly productive and engaged, but are also committed to their job, creative—making small wins toward a larger goal—feel good and have a positive outlook, and feel supported by those they work with as well as giving them their support.

These signs of the optimal state came from a Harvard Business School analysis of workday journals kept by hundreds of men and women. You may notice they mirror the findings by companies themselves of the impact of high EI leaders.

I co-wrote that Leader to Leader article with Cary Cherniss. He and I have been co-directors of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. Cary recently retired as a professor in the Graduate School of Professional and Applied Psychology at Rutgers University. Our LTL article summarizes key findings from our recent book, Optimal.

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The Positive Leadership Podcast

Listen to my most recent interview with the Positive Leadership Podcast where I discuss my new book Optimal: How to Sustain Excellence Every Day. This episode is packed with practical tools and techniques to help you develop your EI and improve your performance.