Emotional Intelligence Mastery:

Emotional Intelligence is made up of 4 main components. Understanding, recognizing, and making personal connections to these components is the first step in developing emotional intelligence mastery.

Mastering emotional intelligence comes with significant benefits. Understanding, recognizing, and connecting to the positive impacts of emotional intelligence provides a powerful motivator and incentive to develop EI.

The absence of emotional intelligence comes with significant disadvantages. Understanding, recognizing, and avoiding the negative impacts from the absence of emotional intelligence provides a path to more effective leadership and stronger relationships.

Mastering emotional intelligence requires that we know and grow our current level of EI skills. Understanding our baseline levels, and creating specific intentions and goals for our development, allow us to strive for and monitor progress, putting us on the path toward mastery.

Self-awareness is the foundation of emotional intelligence. In this session you’ll explore the role of self-awareness, how it shapes EI, and how understanding and applying self-awareness can help you navigate emotions effectively and respond intentionally in any situation. We will also learn why self-awareness can be challenging and reflect on next steps for development.

Understanding and unpacking emotions is not as easy as it sounds! It takes time and tools to help you understand triggers, physical sensations, and situational factors that contribute to emotional states.

Recognizing your emotions is the first step—exploring your patterns reveals the bigger picture. In this session, you’ll expand your emotional vocabulary and learn to notice and name emotions with greater accuracy by identifying the triggers, physical sensations, and situational factors that influence your emotional states.

Judgment and criticism can occur when your brain perceives that an experience is a threat. This session focuses on developing the ability to observe your emotions and patterns with non-judgmental awareness. You’ll learn why setting aside self-criticism is essential for deepening self-awareness and revisit your self-awareness reflections and goals with this new learning in mind.

Self-regulation functions as the control of emotional intelligence and is made up of seven components. Understanding, connecting with, and setting goals for these components paves the way for emotional intelligence mastery.

Self-regulation shapes how emotions, impulses, and stress are managed. This session builds on key components of self-regulation and connects them to current priorities. Watching two videos, you'll identify the presence or absence of self-awareness and reflect on its impact. Over several days, you'll track self-regulation patterns, exploring the connection between emotional responses and self-awareness practices to deepen understanding and effectiveness.

In stressful moments, people often cue in on the facial expressions of the leader to get a sense for whether the situation is cause for alarm or if everything is under control. In this session you’ll connect back to the emotional events and responses you previously recorded and notice patterns about your facial expressions under pressure. You’ll practice a tool to help you control your facial expressions under pressure to project a sense of calm, confidence, and curiosity.

In stressful moments, the path from an event to your response can unfold in moments. A key to controlling your response is to slow down the time between stimulus and response. Slow the pace, stretch the space.  In this session you’ll practice a tool to help you control your emotional responses under pressure. You’ll also revisit your self-regulation reflections and goals with this knowledge in mind.