Effective Leadership – How to Become A High Performing Leader

You’re an Executive, Leader, Business Owner, Manager or Supervisor and want to build a healthier workplace…

To have Effective Leadership and be a strong Leader, you need to develop a high level of emotional intelligence.

Looking at your own strengths and weaknesses starts with Social and Emotional Intelligence and that begins with ‘awareness’. Being self-aware means being honest with yourself. Once you can be honest with yourself, you can start to assess and understand your own emotional intelligence. A self-aware Leader has a far greater capacity to manage and understand the workplace. It has been proven time and time again that Leaders who lack self-awareness are poor decisions makers.

Being armed with the knowledge of your personal strengths and weaknesses isn’t a shortcoming, its ‘smart business’. Effective Leaders have sharp perception and understand how they’re perceived by the people around them. Effective Leadership can be taught and it is Emotional Intelligence which sets a great Leader apart from the competition.

It has often been noted that those chosen for Management roles have a high IQ and/or great technical skills. It is widely known that whilst, those are essential elements, it isn’t what makes a Leader great, it is ‘Emotional Intelligence’ that makes the difference.

Effective Leadership requires varying skill levels and draws from a multitude of facets, for example, communication, goal setting, motivation, team building, negotiation, these are just some of the attributes of a real Leader. Interestingly, all of these stem from your ability to connect with others on an ‘emotional level’ and all of these feed back into your degree of emotional intelligence.

Not all Leaders are skilled in every area of the workplace. What is essential, is understanding that you can’t do it alone. A true Leader will delegate to those with a certain ability and build strong teams by hiring the right people for the right job. Effective Leaders have an honest level of communication, can articulate a message well and constantly work closely with the people around them.

TIP: The above picture is an example of poor Leadership, don’t let this be you.

How Do You Get ‘Emotional Intelligence’?

Emotional intelligence can be learned and is often more prevalent as maturity increases however, this isn’t the driving factor. In the past, training programs for Leaders have been taught by pursuing the neocortex part of the brain. Part of this training has unfortunately also tried to include ‘emotional intelligence’.

Scientific research tells us, that we are born with a small degree of emotional intelligence, how much exactly is unknown. Research also tells us that emotional intelligence is best learned through the Limbic System which manages your emotions, impulses, feelings, memory and drives your motivation.

In order to remove old habits and change unwanted behaviours, firstly you need to identify what they are. This can be done using specific tools and techniques, and once these areas of concern are identified, only then can you start the transformational process and replace them raining has unfortunately also tried to include ‘emotional intelligence’.with new learnings which are targeted towards the Limbic System. Using this methodology, with pinpoint accuracy you can understand how to improve your own Social and Emotional Intelligence skills. Our 26 competency areas do just that by measuring your strengths and weaknesses.

Don’t settle for second best, nobody remembers the runner up. To standout and be the great Leader you know you are, make a decision and begin your transformation today.

To be emotionally intelligent is to have the capacity to problem solve and reason with validly.

Great leaders’ have vision, they’re charismatic, and have a high level of Social and Emotional Intelligence and an innate ability to listen to those around them.

TIP: The key to failure is trying to please everyone, the key to success is ‘emotional intelligence’.

What Does Our Program Do?

Social and Emotional Intelligence Programs have been used extensively in organizations, business and for personal use around the world. Whilst some companies and businesses showed initial reluctance to Social and Emotional Intelligence being a driving factor to sustainability, the unrelenting results, proof and continuing support of the Program speak for themselves.

Examining your level of ‘Emotional Intelligence’ will allow you to understand your strengths and weaknesses (areas of concern) in each of the 26 competencies.  Once these ‘areas of concern’ have been identified, a program for improvement can be implemented. As you progress through our Coaching Program, you’ll learn how your ‘areas of concern’ are currently impacting your work situation, giving you a far greater ability to understand why your ‘Emotional Intelligence’ does make a difference. You’ll discover what is causing in-congruence in your emotional intelligence and how to resolve it.

The Social + Emotional Intelligence Profile (SEIP)® used in our Program is the best and in the world. Extensive research has gone into the development of this highly innovative tool and has been a collaboration of years of refining and testing.

We work with a collaborative approach, using highly skilled Coaches, the best tools and techniques on the market and YOU!

TIP:      The cost of such Programs is by far outweighed by the results.

Evidence

Below are a couple of examples of the power of using Social + Emotional Intelligence Profile (SEIP)® in Effective Leadership.

• Pepsi, increased their productivity by 10%, decreasing their executive staff turnover by 87% with savings of over $4Million and an overall ROI of 1000%.

• Sheraton Hotels is an extraordinary example, they increased their market share by 24% as a direct result of using Social + Emotional Intelligence Programs.

• L’Oreal increased their sales turnover by $2.5 million in the first year by using Social + Emotional Intelligence Programs.

• The U.S. Air Force enjoyed a reduction in turnover from an outstanding 50% to 4% in just one year, which was a saving to the government of over $3 million, all through the use of Social + Emotional Intelligence Programs.

The evidence is overwhelmingly in support of not only the functionality and vibrancy the results deliver but also to the bottom line and ROI that companies and businesses alike (large and small) are enjoying. The business case for delivering Social + Emotional Intelligence Programs into the workplace has produced hard evidence that the soft skills count.

TIP:      The proof can no longer be ignored, businesses all over the world are reaping the benefits of S&EI.

Who Should Use Our Program?

Our Effective Leadership Program has predominately been utilized by Executives, Leaders, Business Owners, Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Professionals, Front of House Staff, Retail, Hospitality and Employees. It is also suitable for anyone in business or who generally converses and interacts with people as part of their job or daily life. This Program is also ideal for ‘not-for-profit’ and ‘government’ organizations as many of their staff are front line and dealing with people in high level stressful and emotional situations.

This Effective Leadership program is NOT limited to the upper escalon of Management however, traditionally in the past it has been. Anyone wanting to improve their Effective Leadership and Social and Emotional Intelligence muscles and who communicates with others (that’s probably the majority of people) should understand what level of emotional intelligence they have.

TIP: Being emotional aware improves ones social effectiveness in business and society in general.

How Does The Social & Emotional Intelligence Profile (SEIP)® Work?

Utilizing the SEIP® tool, your personal strengths and weaknesses are measured in 26 competencies (with social and emotional intelligence coaching could be turned into potential strengths).

You’ll be given an extensive colored Report personalized for you. This will reveal your full Social and Emotional Intelligence Assessment. The Assessment will detail exactly what ’impact’ you have on others around you in the workplace, in each of the competencies.

An initial coaching consultation will ‘unpack’ your results, providing you with a full overview of the Report.

A 360 Report is also available and can be conducted separately. This is where your supervisors, peers and subordinates assess you. The results are collectively compiled with a final Report which assesses how others see you in the workplace. This Report is conducted anonymously, so you won’t see individual results if there is a collective group doing the assessment.

The ‘unpack’ of the 360 will be undertaken with you and your supervisor together.

Both the Individual Report and 360 Reports are highly effective tools for the workplace. Many organizations are adopting this methodology as a ‘standard’ must have for Management because of its accuracy and long term benefits to an organization. The SEIP® has proven to not only be a substantial cost saving for companies, it has also had massive benefits on the reduction of staff turnover (again, providing more financial benefits) and decreased the need for constantly training new staff. As you know, any new staff member coming on board (at any level) has an inherent cost to a business before that staff member becomes a financially viable asset to a company.

TIP:   People who have developed Effective Leadership skills are high in emotional intelligence, have a far greater psychological understanding of those around them and; generally are able to see what others can’t see. It is why they make such great Leaders!

How Does Our Coaching Program Work?

Our Effective Leadership Coaching Program can be individually tailored to meet your needs and are designed around the results of your Report.

There are a myriad of coaching sessions available (these are of course, dependent upon your results):

Below is a sample:

•   Learn how to improve your Effective Leadership skills.
•   Learn to build stronger associations with upper management, colleagues, peers, direct reports, clients and family.
  
•   Learn how to overcome struggles, negative influences and limiting beliefs.
•   Learn how to develop your social and emotional intelligence muscle with positive interactions.
•   Discover how to deal with conflict and tension and turn a negative into a positive.
•   Learn how to become a better decision maker.
•   Learn how interpersonal skills and communication are strengthened.
•   Find out how you become more self-confident, assertive and have an abundance of personal power.
•   Discover how Effective Leadership will make you more productive and a joy to be around.
•   Learn how to turnaround your home life as a result of your improved social and emotional intelligence.
•   Learn how to understand your emotions and the emotions of others.

TIP:      To be emotionally intelligent is to have the capacity to problem solve and reason with validly.

How Will Our Coaching Program Help?

Our full Effective Leadership Coaching Program will teach you how to tap into your social and emotional intelligence and better equip you to be the Leader you need to be.

You will be given training, reflection exercises, worksheets, journal exercises and much more while at the same time, continuing your regular, ongoing coaching sessions.

Throughout this highly intensive Effective Leadership Coaching Program you will be challenged, extended, tested, stretched and shown how to face your fears.

You’ll increase your personal power and become a valued Leader.

TIP:      Be committed to success, remember ‘there is no failure only feedback’.