Emotional intelligence

Just as we have two sides of the brain, left and right, so we have two main intelligences, emotional and rational. The more we grow as leaders, the more our emotional intelligence is decisive for our success in life and work.

• Understanding the nature of emotions.

• Developing love, compassion and intelligence.

• Connecting with people.

• Building strong relationships.

• Creating a life based on the highest values.

“70% of success in life depends on emotional intelligence”

– Daniel Goleman, author of the bestseller “Emotional Intelligence”

Emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to:

1. understand, manage, express your emotions;

2. understand, manage, express the emotions of others.

In a word, emotional intelligence is experiencing emotions: your own and those of others. It is a decisive quality for everyone in the world. Whatever we do in life, we deal with people. If you are a businessman, you deal with people. If you run a business, you deal with people. If you are a professional, you deal with people. If you are a teacher, you obviously have to deal with people. Knowing how to deal with people is the key to business, teaching, selling and any human activity.

People are creatures of emotion, not of logic.

People, including us, do not make decisions based on pure rationality, they make decisions based on emotions, likes and dislikes, pleasure and pain, good or bad memories.

People are moved by emotions: love, joy, justice, enthusiasm, but also disgust, anxiety, fear, anger.

Emotional intelligence gives leaders the ability to understand people’s emotions and to create harmonious relationships.

Every teacher knows that the way to students’ minds is through their hearts. He knows that it is very difficult to connect to their minds if you do not connect to their emotions. He knows that when he hears a colleague say, “I’ve tried to explain it to them 100 times and they don’t listen”… the colleague has not used much of his emotional intelligence.

Every salesperson knows that potential customers often buy based on emotions rather than logic. He knows that when they do not buy, they have not been emotionally impressed.

Every entrepreneur knows that motivated people are more productive, more creative and more useful to the business. He knows that when people are not productive and creative, 70 per cent of the time there is a problem with their emotions: their motivation, their relationship with colleagues, their connection to the mission or values of the company, the joy and pleasure they experience at work.

Emotional intelligence is talking to emotions.

Emotional intelligence is speaking to the emotions, not just to rationality.

Knowing how to talk to emotions is a key character of great leaders, who are able to speak to the deepest needs, impulses, desires of human nature and thus move people to action.

If you are a parent, you will have to speak to the emotions of your children. If you are a manager, you will have to speak to the emotions of your employees. If you are a doctor, you will have to talk to the emotions of your patients.

In any case, talking to emotions, talking with your heart and belly and not just your mind, will enable you as a leader to unlock the incredible potential that resides in each person and bring out the best in others.

Emotional intelligence is connection to your highest values.

Our purest emotions manifest our highest values: love, compassion, kindness, peace, joy, justice, balance, respect, solidarity.

When we connect with our highest values, our emotions follow.

The Emotional Intelligence course designs a pathway to connect with our highest values, so that we can understand them more deeply and live them within ourselves, emotionally and physically, and outside ourselves, in our behaviour and relationships with others.

Emotional intelligence is balance between the hemispheres of the brain.

When we balance rational intelligence and emotional intelligence, we physically balance our brain. The Emotional Intelligence course is full of practices, exercises, and role-plays that allow you to expand your emotional intelligence and balance and connect the hemispheres of your brain more closely.

Duration

The complete ‘Emotional Intelligence’ course is a 12-day programme, spread over a period of 4 months, of 4 long weekends of 3 days each. To meet specific needs, it can also be run in a shorter 3-day version. Other versions are also possible.