In today’s world, the success of companies and institutions depends heavily on leadership skills that unite people, merge ideas, and bridge differences throughout all levels of the organisation. Leadership skills are no longer limited to just the ‘top management’. Instead, companies are looking to their entire body of employees for ideas, innovation, and leadership. Similarly, the focus of employees is shifting from purely material aspects of compensation to how they perceive they are valued in their workspace.
This may seem elusive, but what it translates to is that the quality of leadership depends on human expectations and human interactions. And while we want to display and expect purely professional behaviour at work, no individual can entirely separate their humanness from work. In fact, people bring their emotions, confidence, self-awareness, sense of worth and belonging, or other self-perceptions to the workplace. In the same way, they will bring varying attitudes and expectations to work, ranging from how they want to be treated and listened to, to how included and autonomous they ought to be.
Thoughtful professional leadership is inclusive of these factors. It develops people’s individual and their teams’ collective capacity to recognise, value, (self-)manage, and integrate varying state of minds and emotions. By fostering leadership from the ‘root upwards’, companies benefit from the enhanced individual’s ability and willingness to accept ownership of shared goals, to lead others well and function as part of a team, to handle and produce constructive criticism, to rise to challenges, to deal with failure and to innovate, to adapt to changing circumstances, and to resolve or manage conflicts. Companies also benefit from increased staff loyalty when the workplace takes individual uniqueness into account.
Services
We design in-depth coaching and training based on the pillars of Emotional Intelligence: self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, motivation, and social skills. We offer:
- One-on-one leadership coaching to support individuals
- Tailored, team or company-wide group coaching programmes on leadership or conflict management
- One-off leadership workshops suited to training days or team building events
- Trainings on Emotional Intelligence and its application in the workplace
- Consultancy on company-wide implementation of Emotional Intelligence Leadership approach
Benefits for companies
By focusing on the roots of effective leadership, companies benefit from increased productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, and failure/innovation culture, as well as improved retention rates by:
- Creating a workplace where people are valued and given agency, which improves the sense of belonging and loyalty.
- Developing people’s willingness and ability to take ownership of projects and see them through.
- Improving communication by equipping leaders with mental flexibility to anticipate and include people’s point of views and harmonise them within their teams.
- Enhancing team interaction with widened social skills as a result of improved overall emotional sensitivity.
- Growing employee´s ability to handle feedback or criticism by separating out the person from the action.
- Cultivating flexibility, and ability to adapt to an increasingly agile work environment by grounding people’s emotional reactions.
Benefits for employees
In Emotional Intelligence Leadership coaching, individuals are able to direct and prioritise their own leadership development depending on their individual circumstances and their needs. And since EI Leadership coaching focuses on the roots of our humanness, the new-found insights, outcomes, and skills are highly transferable into all areas of life.
