Self-Awareness: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
About
Self-awareness is at the heart of emotional intelligence. It means a person has a strong realization of their personality, including their strengths and weaknesses, their emotions, beliefs, and motivations. We all have weaknesses we are aware of, and blind spots which represent opportunities for growth of which we are unaware. When we’re unaware of an aspect of our behavior that is problematic for others, it may impede our ability to lead effectively. In this course, we will use a variety of techniques to enhance our self-awareness while gaining insights from fellow participants to help make a positive change to behaviors we wish to see transformed.
This 3-hour course includes 90 minutes of live online instruction and 90 minutes of self-directed learning.
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Who should attend?
- Corporate and enterprise leaders looking to strengthen their emotional intelligence
- Managers who want to build psychologically safe work environments
- Executives seeking to enhance team performance and engagement
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What You’ll Learn
Self-awareness and emotional intelligence in leadership require introspection. But we won’t be sitting around thinking our way to higher consciousness. In this course, we’ll dive into action-packed exercises that help uncover who we are and how we operate. With help from fellow participants, we’ll discover techniques to enhance self-awareness and transform our behaviors. From the Johari Window to the Feedforward system, the tools of personal awareness are waiting for you to explore them.
Self-awareness is a key aspect of emotionally intelligent leadership that every Dale Carnegie trainer embodies. You’ll learn not only from this leadership training but also from your leader’s personal emotional intelligence and leadership style.
Why You Want To Learn It
Three core negative emotions drive disengagement: feeling Irritation, disinterest, and discomfort. Workers can't be critiqued into performing better, and being insulted by the immediate manager ensures an emotional disconnect and disengagement. A good leader makes people feel valued and confident; a poor leader irritates people and makes them feel uncomfortable.
Analysis shows that feeling valued, confident, inspired, enthused, and empowered are the key emotions that lead to engagement. While being “valued” is the gateway to achievement, only 46% of employees report feeling valued.
Leaders need to inspire and engage with their teams to drive business results. This requires leading with empathy and emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence training creates confident leaders - they know the direction they need to lead their team, and they take them toward it. Self-aware leaders understand how they come across to others and can supply what each person needs to work best.
Learn more about the importance of leading with emotional intelligence >
How It Will Help You
Many leaders think keeping employees is the same as having them engaged. They often see employees mainly for what they contribute to the company's success, which is an older style of leadership. Research shows that when leaders focus too much on being in charge and just getting results, they actually don't do as well. Humble leadership usually keeps them longer and gets better work from them, which helps the business succeed. Employees at high-trust companies, where leaders trust them and give them more control over their work, report: 74% less stress, 50% higher productivity, 76% more engagement, 40% less burnout, and 106% more energy at work
Focusing inward results in transformation for leaders. Growing as a leader means that we are gaining trust, inspiring others, building psychologically safe spaces, and driving our teams to success. As self-aware leaders, we have the power to look at situations from a new perspective, focusing outward instead of inward. When we see what others see, we can lead with empathy and emotional intelligence.
Competencies
- Leadership: Drives business results by aligning the vision, mission, and values to enhance business value. Draws upon the unique talents and abilities of others to achieve desired results.
- Interpersonal Skills: Consistently builds strong, long-term relationships both inside and outside the organization.
- Results-oriented: Passionate about accomplishments and dedicated to achieving goals and solving problems.
- Vision: Future-oriented. Applies imagination and wisdom to develop a compelling picture of what could and should be in terms of ultimate success.
How Leadership Coaching Helps Us Be More Self-Aware
Leaders have worked hard to get where they are, but they don’t often have the luxury of figuring out the job as they go along. Whereas trial and error learning as an employee is somewhat expected, trial and error in a leadership position can lead to soured company culture, disengaged employees, and a higher turnover rate. Read More >
Becoming More Self-Aware in the Workplace
There are many situations at work where it is beneficial to be self-aware. A self-aware person generally has a higher self-esteem since they actively work to make themselves into someone they can be proud of. High self-esteem at work can make it easier to speak up and be creative with your ideas. Read More >
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
When we talk about intelligence, we often think in terms of knowledge, memory, and creativity. After all, our intelligence has been measured over the years in various academic and work settings, all to do with what we remember, what we know, and our ability to express it. But there’s another aspect of intelligence out there that is equally important—emotional intelligence. And when it comes to emotional intelligence in the workplace, we as leaders would do well to understand this critical aspect of performance. Read More >
The Dale Carnegie® methodology is time-tested with thousands of testimonials attesting that it works. From the very start, on an individual level, you will set stretch goals and with the support of the social learning environment, the ‘in-the-moment’ coaching by the highly trained facilitator(s), the accountability to commitments, progress will be visible to yourself and others. In the Dale Carnegie® methodology, we focus on building strengths to overpower our weaknesses. We believe that everyone has inherent greatness, and it simply needs to be identified and nurtured.
