"Michelle’s presentation was excellent. She is an engaging facilitator who elicited important discussion questions from the group and that helped us focus on our growth and development."
Grace M. Arupo
Counsel - Corporate
CALIFORNIA ISO
Leadership Skill Development
Is everybody in your organization ready to rise to the next challenge? Few organizations could honestly answer "Yes" to that question. Our comprehensive package of leadership-skills workshops focus on core topics critical to raising the level of performance in your organization. These workshops address the practical knowledge, skills and tools leaders need to unleash their full potential and to help organizations build and maintain long-term business results.
Do you want to know the secrets of the most successful business leaders
in the world? Would you like to know what they know? Do what they do?
Experience new, satisfying levels of success? Through 12, 3-hour sessions
you will acquire the powerful essentials of practical leadership...skills
that will propel you to SEE Strategies.
Common Areas of Skill Development Needs (details)
No cookie-cutter solutions. Every workshop and training session we present is tailored to the unique situation of each client. We offer custom workshops from two hours to two full days, depending on your needs. In addition to the topics listed above, we will also create in-depth workshops on related topics of importance to your organization. Contact us to discuss how to create a leadership-skills development program that matches your business needs precisely.
Emotional Intelligence Assessments
It is widely known that a primary force underlying performance problems is the lack of well developed emotional intelligence; individually, in teams, and organization wide. The core capacities of self-reflection, self-regulation, and empathy are the foundational building blocks of emotional intelligence and fuel essential competencies like flexibility, adaptability, resilience, tolerance, and the ability to remain highly effective under challenging situations. Research continues to document the impact highly developed or underdeveloped emotional intelligence has on the bottom-line performance of the individual and the organization. This is particularly true for leaders and anyone who manages people.
EQ In-Action ProfileA Profile of You In Relationship
This new tool is based upon developmental psychology, interpersonal neuropsychology, and neurophysiology theory, plus year of clinical, educational, consulting and training work.
It's All About Relationship
Emotional Intelligence does not exist apart from relationships. We are created, developed, and sustained in relationship throughout our lives. Our brain and our emotional competencies develop in relationship. As adults, our emotional intelligence is dynamic. Most of us run the gamut of being emotionally smart to dumb depending upon the situation and the stress we are under.This tool provides individuals with a profile of their basic internalized relational map that has been developed through life experience from infancy to this moment. The report profiles an individual's relationship strategies in different difficult contexts.
It's Totally Behavioral Based -- rather than self report
Rather than self-report about what a person thinks they would do, this tool places individuals in a real situation as they watch several video segments where someone is talking directly to them. They are asked to track their own experience as they watch the video and attend to what the individual talking to them must be experiencing. Individuals are then given about fifty words and statements for each video segment and are asked to rate the degree the word or statement fits their actual experience now.An EQ profile report is created based upon their reported experience. The tool provides a "snapshot view" of how an individual uses his or her emotional competence in various stressful situations.
It's About Learning -- not a report card
The goal is to offer a mirror of how individuals interpret their experience and respond to different situations, to identify strengths and weaknesses on key dimensions of EQ, and then to select "daily practices" to build fitness in areas of their choice. An EQ Fitness Tool-Kit provides optional daily practices for each dimension. These are practices that can be done anywhere at anytime and can be incorporated into a fitness program, just like physical training.
EQ Competencies Measured
This tool is based upon a developmental model (Sarni, Emotional Intelligence Handbook) and measures the three capacities of emotional intelligence, or what others call the "essential components" (Taylor & Bagby). These capacities include:
- Self-Reflection Self-Soothing or Self-Regulation
- Empathy
These capacities provide the foundation for development of the larger array of competencies and skills. When these capacities are well developed the competencies follow with ease.Several key dimensions of these core capacities are measured. Self-soothing is measured in terms of what we do in relationships; what we tend to do that builds relationships and contributes to positive outcomes and what do we do that is detrimental to relationships and successful outcomes. The eight short vignettes present different difficult dilemmas that give individuals a composite view of their relationship strategies. They are also provided with a profile of how their strategies vary by context and by different issues.
An EQ Fitness Handbook assists integration & gives options for action
"So now that I have a profile, what difference does it make? And what can really be done to make a difference?" The "So what?" question is a good one. Why bother unless real development is possible. The exciting news that is widely documented in brain development literature today is that development continues throughout our lives and very targeted practice actually reshapes the brain by modifying the resources the brain dedicates to a given function (The Social Brain).This tool includes a fitness handbook that gives a wide variety of practice options for each dimension measured by the tool and encourages individuals to select one to several daily practices they will commit to for a one-month period. It takes repetitive practice to change behavior. Individuals can use the ideas and modify them to fit their unique lifestyle. Everyone is encouraged to create their own plan and make their own commitments. Organizations can easily take these ideas and build them into leadership development programs and/or staff development programs.
Report Profiles
Individual profile reports graphically display an individual's level of fitness on seven dimensions of Self-Reflection and Empathy. This is followed by a brief narrative description of what is measured and the implications for an individual in work relationships. Individuals are encouraged to consider how this information fits with their own experience and to interpret this in terms of their life experience in different situations. The information provides a valuable tool for noticing and practicing self-awareness. It is also useful for engaging family members, colleagues, and friends in a discussion on the degree to which this data fits their experience of them. The profile summary can be used as a rich resource for further exploration.
How it works
The EQ In Action Profile is available in three forms. The streaming video online version is best for people who have high-speed Internet access. The CD version is available for those with a slower Internet interface, and a paper and pencil version is available for using with larger groups or in a classroom where many students are taking it at the same time. Both types of Internet reports are generated immediately and available online as soon as the user has finished taking the tool.Team reports or large group reports are also available. Each person receives a bound colored report with an EQ Fitness Handbook: 150 Practices for Daily Living.
Validity and Reliability Measures
This tool has undergone a series of high-level statistical analyses to date. A four-page summary of this work is available upon request. The tool has been administered to a diverse group of people, including adult men and women of different age groups (from under 25 to 70), different employment status, different socioeconomic status, and different geographic regions across North America.Some of the validity and reliability measures that have been done or are underway include face validity, content validity, construct validity, divergent validity, and criterion group validity (measures differences between groups).For more pricing and availability e-mail us at info@seestrategies.com or call 800-568-0544.
Sample Reports
Creators of this Tool
EQ In Action Profile has been in development for two years with intensive testing of this approach for the past year. The primary developers of this tool have been Jan Johnson, MA and David Erb, PhD. Ronald Short, PhD, and Annette Fitzpatrick, PhD have also made significant contributions. In addition, several hundred professionals across the US and Canada have participated by 1) sharing their own experience as they watched the videos, 2) giving feedback on many different iterations of this tool 3) using variations of this tool and the video segments in their own work and giving us feedback about the value in training and organizational learning, and 4) giving extensive feedback on reporting and what is useful for them personally and as professionals using a tool with their clients as leadership development consultants and coaches.
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