Emotional Intelligence is the strongest driver of leadership and personal excellence.
Leaders with high levels of emotional intelligence earn $29K more in salary than those with low levels of emotional intelligence
Every point increase in EQ (emotional quotient) equates to over one and half thousand dollars in annual salary.
As a leader you are responsible for generating trust, building authentic relationships and effective teams. It is vital that you lead by example and inspire excellence in others.
Emotional Intelligence is the strongest driver of leadership and personal excellence.
Leaders with high levels of emotional intelligence earn $29K more in salary than those with low levels of emotional intelligence
Every point increase in EQ (emotional quotient) equates to over one and half thousand dollars in annual salary.
As a leader you are responsible for generating trust, building authentic relationships and effective teams. It is vital that you lead by example and inspire excellence in others.
This course will help you to develop and apply your emotional intelligence skills as a leader. You will learn more about your mode and style of leadership to grow other people, enhance their performance and personal satisfaction.
People often talk about positive and negative emotions. This is not that helpful as emotions cannot really be labelled in that way. The course also covers the myths around positive and negative emotions and why this terminology is not appropriate when working to understand emotions and emotional intelligence in the workplace as a leader.
By completing this course, you will be able to
Discover ways of working with emotional intelligence that lead to better outcomes with the people that you are responsible for
Appraise your social skills and your emotional intelligence
Recognise behavioral preferences and how to work with others with different preferences
Examine your mode and style of leadership and what you need to do to get the most out of difficult situations
Investigate ways that you are utilising and balancing your energy for maximum efficiency
Determine the best ways to manage and work with energy by utilising sources of energy to support energy dimensions
Determine how people would benefit from a coaching approach in changing circumstances
Recognise the importance of conflict and how you can work with it to build relationships
Identify ways to work with expressed emotions in empathetic and meaningful ways
Greater self-awareness will strengthen your leadership capabilities so that you can identify your emotional strengths and areas for development.
Within this leadership course, you will discover how the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) can be used in leadership. You will gain a different perspective of yourself as a leader in relation to your MBTI Personality Type. Personality preferences are investigated, discussed, and correlated with various leadership situations involving people. Additional, specific study methodologies and assessment techniques are shared so that you can build upon this, if you are interested in taking this further.
The course, also, covers emotional intelligence coaching and how to manage and resolve situations where conflict arises.
This course is a standalone course for anyone interested in understanding how work to more effectively with others as a leader. It compliments other courses that explore emotional intelligence in more depth.
You'll receive all the information that you need and will be coached using loads of practical hints that you can use straight away.
The course is for you if you want to develop as a leader to improve the way that you interact with other people, the way that you make decisions and the way that you manage performance.
The course contains some challenging quizzes around real-life workplace leadership scenarios that will make you think. There are a series of interactive exercises that involve some activity with other people and some reflection.
The course material makes up a one to two day workshop so is equivalent to 8 -12 hour's training. It forms part of our advanced emotional intelligence course approved by the Institute of Leadership and Management.
PLEASE NOTE - This course is NOT for you if you are not prepared to work through the practical activities that make up a fundamental part of the course. Your leadership cannot be developed just by watching the video lectures. It requires you to do some reflective thinking, to get some feedback and to discuss your development with others. The practical activities have been carefully designed to help you to do this. I'm afraid that you won't get the best from the course unless you are prepared to do this.
The course is being continually refined and updated to ensure it remains current and relevant. Feedback is always welcome. Please watch the preview lecture on Giving and Receiving Feedback in Leadership.
The course contains a series of Lightbulb Moments resource cards, which have been created to provide you with handy reminders of key points around topics covered within the course.
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Latest update - March 2025
This brief introductory lecture gives an overview of the course on the Emotionally Intelligent Leader.
This video is critical to watch as it provides valuable insights to help you get the most from this course on the Udemy platform. It also helps address any potential criticisms and negative reactions through the application of emotional intelligence.
Before we start the course, here is a practical activity that encourages you to think about why you are taking the course and what you want to get from it.
This lecture looks at what makes not only an effective leader BUT, also, what makes a great leader.
A core leadership capability is giving and receiving feedback - especially as an emotionally intelligent leader. Thus lecture looks at these skills in more detail.
How you speak as a leader can influence how your emotional intelligence is perceived. This video gives some insights into how you may inadvertently be speaking in less emotionally intelligent ways with the language that you use and your use of TLAs - Three Letter Abbreviations.
Here are some simple phrases that you can use as an emotionally intelligent leader to create highly engaged, empowered teams who will follow you anywhere and will achieve great results.
Self-awareness is a fundamental part of emotional intelligence and good leadership. This lesson looks at self-awareness as a leadership capability - its advantages and disadvantages.
This videos explores the complex relationship between receiving feedback and developing self-awareness.
This lesson covers some perspectives around leadership, particularly looking at awareness of self, others and the context.
VUCA is an acronym often used to describe the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. In this lecture we investigate VUCA and how you may often be leading people in situations that are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.
This lecture looks at the capacity of individuals and organisations to work with and manage VUCA.
This lecture investigates the principles of ethical leadership and how these can influence you as an emotionally intelligent leader.
There is a lot of interest in Artificial Intelligence currently. The most important skills needed in the skills-based economy are those that artificial intelligence cannot replicate. These are skills that involve many aspects of emotional intelligence and one of the most critical is leadership.
This lecture looks at what you will learn within the Emotional Intelligent Leader course.
This video gives you an understanding the learning outcomes covered in this module on emotional intelligence.
An overview of emotional intelligence giving you a definition and the meaning of emotional intelligence.
This lesson looks at the academic work that helped to develop the construct that is emotional and social intelligence and explains why they are important components of leadership.
You maybe confused about the terms EI and EQ and how the two seem to be readily interchanged. This lesson helps to give a distinction between the two.
Some frequently asked questions (with appropriate answers) about emotional intelligence.
Attitude cannot be easily measured so, strictly speaking, it is not a part of EQ - Emotional Quotient. However, attitude can be considered within emotional intelligence as it is linked to how emotional intelligence is applied.
You maybe confused about the terms emotions and feelings and how the two seem to be readily interchanged. This lesson helps to give a distinction between the two.
A broad look at emotions and why they are important to consider in leadership.
This lecture explores some of the limitations of artificial intelligence systems where emotional intelligence is concerned so that GenAI technologies (such as ChatGPT / Gemini, etc.) can be used effectively and responsibly.
This lecture explores artificial intelligence and human intelligence with particular reference to human understanding through context.
The video explores how integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Emotional Intelligence (EI) can enhance business leadership. It provides actionable strategies for leaders to leverage AI's analytical power while engaging people through empathy, collaboration, and adaptability through EI. This synergy aims to create more effective and human-centered leadership approaches.
Some examples of when you experience emotions at work and why emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence (IQ) in leadership.
People often talk about positive and negative emotions. This is not that helpful as emotions cannot really be labelled in that way. This lesson looks at why labelling emotions as positive or negative can be unhelpful.
This lecture looks at how to work with the emotional climate by assessing the level of emotional engagement and the level of emotional management.
This lecture will help you to understand how the emotional climate at work impacts upon teams and teamworking so that you are able to determine the best ways to work with it.
Running virtual meetings as a leader is now more common place. This lesson gives a useful tip around how to run virtual meetings using emotional intelligence.
How you handle your emotions depends upon a number of factors. People fall into three distinctive styles for attending to and dealing with their emotions. This lecture covers handling emotions by looking at the three distinctive styles.
An overview of some of the advantages and some of the disadvantages when working with emotional intelligence.
Here are five questions that you should ask yourself in every challenging situation. These will help you to develop your emotional intelligence.
Energy management is essential for leadership development and the achievement of a fulfilled, successful life. Combine with emotional intelligence, energy management plays a key role in the human side of leadership.
Human beings can be considered to be open systems as we take in energy from outside us and transform it to achieve a result. This lecture explores this idea and considers six elements that can block the flow of energy.
Understanding energy requires the balance of the four dimensions of energy - physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. This lecture investigates each of the four dimensions.
Energy moves in natural cycles. This lecture looks at how you can work with energy cycles more effectively.
There is an interplay between energy quality and quantity. All energy states need to be considered and effectively managed to ensure that energy is managed well.
This lecture covers the steps that assist in the quest for effective energy management.
Energy output shouldn't exceed energy input, but all too often this is what happens. This lecture investigates ways to ensure that energy can be adequately renewed to prevent depletion and burn-out.
Implementing positive energy rituals is the key to full engagement and sustained high performance. This lecture includes a positive ritual known as the grounding technique, which is a short ritual to feel more centred and focused.
This lecture explores the sources of energy to be found in breathing, nutrition, and hydration, and the positive changes leaders can make to increase their energy levels and general sense of wellness.
This lecture explores the sources of energy to be found in sleep, exercise, and stress, and the positive changes leaders can make to increase their energy levels and general sense of wellness.
This lecture explores the sources of energy to be found in focus and concentration, and critical thinking, and the positive changes leaders can make to increase their energy levels and general sense of wellness.
This lecture reviews the module on understanding energy and introduces the practical activity.
This practical activity will help you to identify those areas of your energy that you are managing well and those areas that could do with some improvement.
Self-awareness is vital to becoming an emotionally intelligent leader. This section helps you to develop more self-awareness looking at the behavioural preferences identified by Carl Jung, and later modified by Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs.
This lecture looks at the objectives of this part of the course.
This questionnaire is based on a personality framework that will help you explore your preferences for taking in information and making decisions. The framework also looks at where you prefer to focus your attention and how you prefer to live your life.
There are no right and wrong answers and all possible outcomes on the questionnaire are equally valid.
The questionnaire will take you about 25 minutes to complete; however, there is no time limit so you will be able to take as much time as you need.
Please try to answer the questions according to your natural preference. Think of yourself in a situation where there are no external pressures to act or feel in a particular way. Get yourself into a frame of mind in which you are able to make a free choice between the response options.
This lesson looks at personality and behaviour. It looks at how an understanding of personality type will help you as a leader work with some of the challenges that you face in the workplace.
A look at the behavioural preferences identified by Carl Jung that were further researched and developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs.
This booklet enables you to determine where you like to focus your attention (E or I), the way you like to look at things (S or N), the way you go about deciding things (T or F), and how you deal with the outer world (J or P).
To get the best from this course, you will need this booklet as you work through the next four lectures. The lectures will give you the chance to determine how clear you are on each of the preferences that we are looking at.
This booklet is not interactive. You will need to print the booklet and work with it manually as you watch the next four videos.
Use the booklet to mark your clarity (how clear you are) on each preference scale so that you can build up an understanding of your personality type.
Full instructions and a short description of each of the 16 personality types are given within the booklet.
This lecture will help you to determine what energises you and how you get your energy.
This lecture will help you to determine how you take in information from the outside world.
This lecture will help you to determine how you process information.
This lecture will help you to determine how you orientate yourself in the world.
Review your results using the booklet "Determining your Personality Type". From this, you should be able to work out your Self-Assessed Type.
Revisit the summary of all the 16 Behavioural Types within the booklet. Read the synopsis associated with your Self-Assessed Type.
Assessing your Type and some hints and tips when working with Type.
An overview on this part of the course on behavioural preferences.
By completing this module appropriately, you will have developed your emotional intelligence through gaining some self-awareness around your Behavioural Preferences. It will have given you some insights into other's preferences and how they use them. This will help you when you are interacting and communicating with other people.
This quiz will test your knowledge and understanding of behavioural preferences.
Each Personality Type has a unique way of leading that is all their own. Some Types are given more opportunities to lead than others, and other Types lead in the background by making suggestions and subtly manoeuvring situations to their rightful course.
Any Personality Type can be an effective leader. Every Type is going to do it a little bit differently. This booklet looks at the leadership style of each of the 16 Types and looks at possible struggles that each Type may have.
This lecture introduces the idea of coaching as a way to support the development of leadership and emotional intelligence and reviews the objectives of this part of the course.
Coaching is important in the workplace. This lecture covers why coaching is necessary and when to coach.
Sports coaching and professional coaching are often considered to be the same. They are similar in many ways but there are differences. This video investigates these differences.
What are the fundamental skills that you need to be a good coach? This lecture covers the core skills that are needed by leaders who use coaching effectively.
This video investigates what hinders people's inability to listen and the detrimental impact of poor listening skills can have on effective communication.
The GROW Model is a well known coaching process that has become widely recognised as very effective help someone achieve their goals through coaching.
This short video investigates some questions that you can consider asking through your coaching when you identify that your coachee is experiencing a basic emotion.
Journalling is the practice of writing in a diary or journal about the thoughts, feelings and physical sensations that come up in connection with life events. It is a useful tool to use as a coach or leader or if your are being coached.
This video explores some of the points that you need to work with if you are being coached as a leader.
This lecture reviews this section on coaching as a part of good leadership and introduces the practical activity that will support your development as a coaching leader.
This practical activity is designed to give you some insights around how you coach somebody around their decision making.
Leadership is a HUGE topic in management development. Every organisation is looking for leaders. This section explores how leadership differs from management and looks at leadership modes and styles.
What is leadership? It's the same as management, isn't it?
This lecture looks at three distinctive modes of leadership.
Daniel Goleman defined six styles of leadership. This lecture looks at the six styles.
What is the Commanding Style of leadership? When and where should it be used?
What is the Pacesetting Style of leadership? When and where should it be used?
What is the Democratic Style of leadership? When and where should it be used?
What is the Affiliative Style of leadership? When and where should it be used?
What is the Visionary Style of leadership? When and where should it be used?
What is the Coaching Style of leadership? When and where should it be used?
This lecture reviews this section on leadership modes and styles and introduces the practical activity.
Complete this questionnaire to determine your mode of leadership. Use the accompanying information to find out more about your results.
This quiz will test your knowledge of the information provided within the course so far.
This quiz is designed to make you think about the best leadership style to use in a different range of circumstances to support your learning.
You are presented with a situation and you should decide which style is most likely to give you the best outcome.
Leadership is an art not a science. The leadership scenarios can have more than one answer that would give good results. The answers within the quiz indicate the best style to use.
Conflict is an important part of human interaction. Emotions will occur that need managing and supporting. How you work with conflict and how you manage conflict go towards determining how successful you are as a leader.
This lecture looks at the objectives in the section of the course.
This lecture looks at the sources, the costs and the benefits of conflict.
This lecture looks at the importance of trust in working with conflict. It covers the factors that you need to consider as a leader that will impact upon the conflict and its resolution.
This lecture investigates Robert Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions which considers trust as an emotion within the wheel which provides some very interesting insights.
Trust can be represented by an equation. It consists of four interrelated factors - three combine to increase trust whilst one can diminish trust.
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