Calendar

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify, manage and purposefully express our own emotions as well understand and respond appropriately to the emotions of others. This is a crucial capacity to develop for project managers as it plays such a critical role in motivating team members, problem solving, resolving conflicts and in building relationships.

• Emotional stigma and our tendencies to suppress emotions  
• Mental health and the internal challenges we are faced with
• The technological influence on emotional intelligence
• Recognizing and managing emotions in ourselves
• Opportunities for influencing emotional responses in others
• Non-verbal cues and reading people
• The emotion-cognition correlation (EQ & IQ)
• Stress, risk factors and coping/reduction mechanisms
• Transparency and integrity in the ways we communicate
• Cultural, locational, personality and generational considerations
• Our brain’s limbic and neocortex thinking systems
• Optimism and controlling our focus
• Fears and internal roadblocks that inhibit individuals and teams