Leveraging Social and Emotional Intelligence: (Re)Engage your Organization, Teams and Co-workers

Social and emotional intelligence (SEI) is the foundation of transformational leadership and the biggest driver of collective performance. Research demonstrates that while we may deploy our social and emotional intelligence in our personal lives, it is severely underutilized in organizations.    

In this two, half-day live virtual course, discover an immediately applicable set of tools and mindsets that will enable you to create immensely human interactions in a reimagined workplace. Research is showing a desire for organizations and its leaders to be more attuned to the emotional diversity, tenor and tempo of other’s experiences. Much of this boils down to leaders at all levels sharpening and better utilizing social and emotional intelligence.

In this course, our faculty will help you understand your current abilities and competencies and how these influence your success and seeing, calibrating and transforming the social emotional dimension of the workplace that propel or inhibit action.

WHAT SETS THIS PROGRAM APART

  • Practice vignettes help you to visualize unique SEI office situations
  • Rigorous ability-based assessments of your social and emotional intelligence
  • Highly interactive, engaging and personalized discussions with an industry expert and a leading academic scholar 
  • Learn from a Financial Times Top 3 global open enrollment executive education provider
Who Should Attend
  • Business Unit Manager, General Manager, Regional Manager, Directors and other titles with leader/manager
  • Employees designated as High Potentials by their Organizations
  • Rising leaders who seek ways to improve and maximize their social and emotional intelligence
The Experience

Program Structure

This course is delivered live virtually over two, half-day live/synchronous sessions.  Activities each day include interactive discussions, assessments with feedback, video-vignettes, online discussions, and readings for enhanced development. Participants will participate in individual sharing and team interactions.  

Upcoming:
September 10 and 17, 2021
8:00AM - 12:00PM ET
 

Day 1: Four Hours

Segment 1: Grounding Concepts

  • Lesson 1: Evidence Based Rationale for Increasing your Social and Emotional Intelligence
  • Lesson 2: Overcoming Emotional Tone Deafness in Organizational Life

Segment 2: Internally Focused SEI

  • Lesson 3: Internally Focused Social and Emotional Intelligence: Self Awareness 
  • Lesson 4: Internally Focused Social and Emotional Intelligence: Self Management

 

Day 2: Four Hours

Segment 3: Externally Focused SEI

  • Lesson 5 - Part A:  Externally Focused Social and Emotional Intelligence: Social Awareness in Reading a Person 
  • Lesson 5 - Part B: Externally Focused Social and Emotional Intelligence: Social Awareness in Reading People
  • Lesson 6: Externally Focused Social and Emotional Intelligence: Social Competence in Coaching Others
Individual Benefits
  • Gain insights necessary for sharpening: 
    • Immensely Human Skills required in a Digital and Hybrid World
    • Collective Performance 
    • Organizational Dysfunction
  • Attain self-knowledge and understanding, as well as the ability to read and develop that in others
  • Gain the ability to react in positive ways when faced with a crisis and highly emotional settings 
  • Learn a common language for social and emotional intelligence that will be a foundation for the organization’s higher performance
SEI

Faculty

Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks
Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks
  • William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration
  • Professor of Management and Organizations
Cheri Alexander
Cheri Alexander
  • Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director Corporate Learning
  • Adjunct Lecturer of Management and Organizations

Faculty Thought Leadership

Challenging Times Show the Need for Managers to Choose the Right Response to their Teams Emotions 

HR Leadership Needs to Stay on Top of Technological Change

Technology is Simple, but Culture is Hard

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$1,800US
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Tuition & Fees

Tuition covers access to content and activities. 

Program registration closes five business days prior to the program start date. The fee must be paid in full in US dollars (net of any tax) before access to the course platform can be granted. Program discounts may be available for selected programs; contact us for specific details. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy.

If you would like to experience this program with your team, please contact Managing Director, Open Enrollment Programs, Connie Lareau to learn more -– RossExecEd@umich.edu or +1.734.763.1000.

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10 Sep - 17 Sep 2021

Tuition & Fees

$1,800US
Location: Web/Online
Format: Online
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Tuition covers access to content and activities. 

Program registration closes five business days prior to the program start date. The fee must be paid in full in US dollars (net of any tax) before access to the course platform can be granted. Program discounts may be available for selected programs; contact us for specific details. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy.

If you would like to experience this program with your team, please contact Managing Director, Open Enrollment Programs, Connie Lareau to learn more -– RossExecEd@umich.edu or +1.734.763.1000.

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