Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to understand and manage one’s own emotions while also being able to recognize and influence the emotions of others. 

It is considered critical to personal and professional success in today’s workplace, where connection, communication, and collaboration are key, especially as one moves up the ranks into leadership positions. The good news is that while a person’s IQ generally remains static throughout life, an individual’s EQ can be enhanced! 

Genos International, one of our partners, is a global leader in the field of learning to apply emotional intelligence at work. Genos has identified 6 Core Emotional Intelligence competencies that direct how individuals handle stress, communicate with others, navigate social complexities, and make decisions. They are Self-Awareness, Awareness of Others, Authenticity, Emotional Reasoning, Self-Management and Positive Influence.

Strengthening these competencies enables people to build stronger relationships, achieve better personal and organizational goals, and create a more positive work environment.  Genos’ Emotional Intelligence Development Programs are “game-changing for business, life-changing for people.”

Grounded in years of research, Genos International has programs designed for leaders, teams, and individuals, delivered in businesses around the world. Bay Area Executive Coach is certified to offer the following instructor-led Genos learning journeys. Reach out to us for more information on how to bring one of these to your organization.

Lead, Empower & Thrive with Emotional Intelligence

Designed for leaders with leaders’ challenges in mind, Lead, Empower and Thrive with EI touches on all 6 core EI competencies of the Genos Model.

Lead, Empower & Thrive with EI utilizes important emotional intelligence behaviors and social neuroscience research to enhance leadership skills and emotional intelligence competencies. This program strengthens participants’ resilience, ability to lead with confidence (both virtually and in-person) and decision-making skills, while inspiring higher performance and improving workplace culture.

Applied Emotional Intelligence 

The Applied EI program benefits all employees, teams and future leaders by increasing their understanding of the science behind emotional intelligence and social neuroscience and the effect emotions can have on decision-making and performance.

By exploring the six core competencies of the Genos Workplace Model of Emotional Intelligence, participants will gain a greater understanding of themselves, develop skills to positively influence others’ feelings, and learn to manage their emotions more intelligently to foster connection, communication, and collaboration.

Leader as Coach

The Leader as Coach program aims to develop a coaching mindset in order to positively influence the overall emotional intelligence of leaders’ teams and organizations, and empower them to achieve the best possible results.

This program touches on important aspects of interpersonal dynamics including improving self-awareness and developing active listening skills, conversations toward actions, providing effective feedback, and facilitating insights by asking the right questions.

Leading Psychological Safety

Does your team often produce unfavorable results because they politely avoid difficult discussions or, the opposite, because they challenge each other too bluntly? Lack of psychological safety may be your problem. 

The goal of the Leading Psychological Safety program is to guide participants to feel more comfortable speaking up and challenging others, sharing mistakes to learn from them, and confronting unproductive behaviors. It takes a whole organization, top to bottom, to positively impact psychological safety.

This 3-hour program will provide participants with the necessary tools and techniques to facilitate trust and inclusion in the workplace including identifying and redirecting behaviors that cause antagonism and defensiveness, learning to express issues confidently, and creating a safe space for genuine conversations.

Science of Well-Being

Science of Well-Being

Built on the science of healthy habit formation, the Science of Well-Being program was created to help employees at all levels improve their mental, physical, social, and environmental well-being. 

It is presented in an immersive four-module program to help lower stress-related leave claims and absenteeism and improve productivity and employee engagement. The various interactive activities will result in a custom, participant-specific plan including strategies to enhance their well-being.

Genos Grow

Empower one employee or an entire workforce to develop their emotional intelligence anywhere and anytime.

Genos Grow is an on-demand learning platform. It is formatted differently than most other such platforms as it is behavior-based and all about interaction and personalization. Within Grow you can interact with a coach, a facilitator and other people in your group, drawing learning not only from a qualified coach but from other people’s real-world application of the content.

Genos Grow takes a unique approach to develop emotional intelligence anywhere and anytime over a 6-month period. Immerse yourself in the learning journey on your own, in a group with a facilitator, with a colleague or their boss, or 1-on-1 with a professional coach.

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Imagine the myriad benefits that could accrue to your organization by making mindful and purposeful investments into these emotional intelligence programs. The ROI can be tremendous in terms of retention, culture enhancement, increased engagement and collaboration. 

Investing in the development of EI skills in your people is almost always a great idea and worth doing sooner rather than later. Don’t wait to harness the power of these programs to fuel the growth and development of your talent. Contact us to learn more about the difference these programs might make and how to bring them into your organization virtually or in-person.