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Emotional Intelligence Workshops

An Introduction to Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers

2 Days / 14 PDUs

No more boring training sessions! This highly interactive workshop provides the framework, tools, and confidence you need to apply emotional intelligence to your projects.

  • We'll start with your personal assessment of emotional intelligence to give you insights into your unique emotional strengths and weaknesses.
  • You will learn an emotional intelligence framework and the specific emotional competencies necessary for success as a project manager.
  • You will create a personal development plan to grow in your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses.
  • Exercises and role-playing based on real project experiences will help you develop specific emotional competencies and improve your effectiveness as a project manager.

How You Will Benefit:

  • Learn to apply emotional intelligence to the project environment
  • Use emotions as a source of information and self-awareness
  • Understand strengths and weaknesses relative to emotional intelligence
  • Anticipate and avoid emotional breakdowns
  • Learn to listen with empathy
  • Build effective relationships with project stakeholders
  • Be a More Successful Project Manager

Who Should Attend:

  • Project leaders, project managers, team leaders, program managers, and department managers.

Workshop Fees:

  • Regular Price - (see below)
  • PMI Members receive a discount of $100
  • Register early and take an additional discount of $100

2008 Schedule:

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November 6 & 7, 2008 Schaumburg, IL Register $800 Oct 17, 2008

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Overview of Course Topics


Introduction to Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers

  • What is emotional intelligence?
  • Why emotional intelligence is important to project managers
  • An emotional intelligence framework for project managers
  • Your personal emotional intelligence assessment

Self-Awareness

  • Basic feelings and families of emotions
  • Emotions provide information
  • How to feel your feelings
  • Assessing your strengths and weaknesses
  • Techniques to Improve self-awareness

Self-Management

  • Emotional self-control
  • Understanding the causes of emotional breakdowns
  • Common emotional breakdowns in the project environment
  • Understand how emotional triggers and stinking thinking can inhibit project managers
  • Techniques to improve self-management

Social Awareness

  • Empathy and empathetic listening
  • Seeing others clearly, including the project team
  • Techniques to improve social awareness

Relationship Management

  • Importance of relationships to project managers
  • Techniques to identify, analyze, and managing project stakeholder relationships
  • Techniques to deal with stakeholder relationship breakdowns
  • How to tell the truth responsibly

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