Emotional Intelligence for Leadership
Learn what emotional intelligence is, its four components, and how mindfulness, feedback, stress management and empathy can help you build it as a leader.
Speaker
Sarah OBrien
Trauma-informed consultant and psychotherapist · LCSW, LCSW-C
Overview
Leaders who understand their own emotions and those of others build trust, reduce misunderstanding and handle conflict with less disruption. This 60-minute emotional intelligence for leadership webinar starts with working definitions and explains how emotional IQ differs from intellectual IQ.
You'll break down the four components, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and social interaction, and learn four techniques for raising emotional intelligence: mindfulness, feedback, stress management and empathy. You'll also review signs of emotional intelligence and ways to practice it.
The session links emotional intelligence to workplace culture and productivity, and shows how trauma-informed leadership practices can increase safety and reduce harm at work.
Why attend: People are central to every organization's success, and leaders who lack emotional intelligence can create toxic, unsafe cultures that hold everyone back. The session cites studies linking higher emotional intelligence with higher earnings and stronger revenue performance, and notes that Millennials and Gen Z place more weight on emotional health and psychological safety. If communication, performance or motivation on your team is a concern, this webinar helps you see how your emotional intelligence affects the people you lead.
What’s covered
- Several definitions and examples of emotional intelligence
- The main characteristics of each of the four components
- Why a high level of emotional intelligence is vital for today's leaders
- How poor emotional intelligence in leadership hurts workplace culture and productivity
- How to spot signs of emotional intelligence
- Ways to practice and increase emotional intelligence
- Becoming more aware of how emotions affect your interactions and decisions, and how trauma-informed leadership skills increase safety and reduce harm
What you get
About the speaker
Sarah Fargo O’Brien (she/her) is a dynamic and innovative trauma-informed leader and strategist. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, LCSW-C), and has been a practicing psychotherapist specializing in Anxiety Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Relational/Betrayal Trauma reactions and responses for over 15 years. She has had many diverse and enriching experiences as a therapist that inform her work as a Trauma-Informed Consultant. She has been pivoting her clinical skills into other areas to reach wider audiences for impacting social change. Sarah also writes, speaks, and creates audio & video media content in efforts to reduce the stigma around mental health disorders & treatment, and to increase understanding of and accessibility to trauma-informed practices for all people and all businesses, as trauma informed care is the way of the future.
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