Self-Awareness Workshop to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence
This workshop introduces Daniel Goleman’s areas of development for emotional intelligence and invites the teams to explore their understanding and awareness of their own emotions.
Together we will work through activities and discuss our understandings and learnings of Emotional Intelligence. Everyone can learn how to recognize their emotions and identify areas of development. Each person will leave the workshop with an action plan to improve their emotional intelligence skills in order to increase team productivity, connection and trust.
Objectives
- Introduce teams to the subject of Emotional Intelligence by identifying Daniel Goleman’s five pillars: self-awareness, self-management, empathy, communication skills and group dynamics.
- Identify our own emotions in a self-awareness exercise and be able to harness useful feelings throughout the workshop.
- Identify levels of trust within our teams, and use this information to gauge areas of improvement.
- Focusing on our own self-awareness, we will create an action plan to improve trust and connection within our teams around the pillars of E.Q. beyond the workshop.
- Understand the five pillars of emotional intelligence by contextualizing action points.
Materials
Attachments
- emotional-intelligence-presentation.pdf
- emotional-intelligence-workbook.pdf
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- Trust Battery Worksheet.pdf
Instructions
This workshop is designed as an opening point for teams to develop their emotional intelligence by becoming more self-aware. We will provide the participants with an understanding of Daniel Goleman’s pillars of emotional intelligence, and work together to spot areas of improvement for better team cohesion.
The workshop can instill new perspectives and develop a proactive approach for change. Learning to identify our emotions, can help us better empathize with others to improve trust and communication techniques for a stronger team dynamic.
This workshop can take place in a live format, or online, and can also work as a hybrid workshop. Online tools can help facilitate this workshop, so long as we ensure the safe space needed when running workshops focused on emotional development. Presentations and an action plan workbook are included in this template, to make it easy for facilitators to use as a package.
The workshop is ideally suited to be run by facilitators with a grounding and knowledge of Emotional Intelligence The instructions and exercises provided make it a straightforward workshop to run for improving self-awareness.
It would be very useful to have studied Daniel Goleman’s book Emotional Intelligence: Why it Matters more than IQ and to have experience in emotional development for teams. It’s important to have a facilitator who understands the team and can spot any conflicts, or issues prior to running the workshop.
Specific anecdotes and creating the opportunity for open discussion can help create a safe space and ensure the best outcomes for the participants.
Materials
We have created two downloadable PDFs for this workshop.
An action plan for participants to work through and reflect on throughout. They’ll leave with a future plan of considered action points to improve their self-awareness and develop their emotional intelligence skills beyond the training session.
A presentation for facilitators to explain the five pillars of emotional intelligence and how self-awareness can create a foundation for their emotional development.
Author
At SessionLab, we are passionate about facilitation. We believe good workshop design leads to better collaboration, enabling people to achieve great things. SessionLab is the go-to platform for session design, with an agenda planning tool, library of facilitation resources and vibrant community for facilitators. It enables facilitators to streamline workshop design through drag-and-drop scheduling, automatic timing and seamless sharing with clients and colleagues.