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Management and Leadership

Emotional Intelligence for Leaders

Lead with self-awareness and empathy by recognising and regulating your own emotions, reading your team accurately and handling influence and difficult conversations in a way that builds trust.

  • Intermediate
  • About 7 hours
  • 4 modules
  • 16 lessons
  • Certificate of completion

About this course

Lead with self-awareness. Develop empathy, self-regulation, and social skills to build trust and influence as a leader.

What you will learn

  • Explain the four domains of emotional intelligence and assess your own EQ baseline using self-rating, real incidents and feedback
  • Map your personal emotional triggers and use practical techniques to stay composed under pressure
  • Reframe unhelpful thinking patterns and show authenticity and appropriate vulnerability as a leader
  • Listen beyond the words, read team mood and morale and adapt to cross-cultural emotional signals
  • Plan and lead difficult conversations and influence stakeholders with emotional awareness and integrity
  • Build an emotionally healthy, psychologically safe team and run a 30-day EQ practice plan

Curriculum

Module 1EQ Foundations4 lessons
  1. 1The Business Case for Emotional Intelligence Free preview
  2. 2The Four Domains of EQ
  3. 3Self-Assessment: Your EQ Baseline
  4. 4Emotions as Information
  5. QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 2Self-Mastery4 lessons
  1. 5Recognising Your Triggers
  2. 6Regulating Under Pressure
  3. 7Self-Talk and Reframing
  4. 8Authenticity and Vulnerability
  5. QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 3Reading Others4 lessons
  1. 9Empathy in Leadership
  2. 10Listening for What’s Not Said
  3. 11Reading Team Mood and Morale
  4. 12Cross-Cultural Emotional Signals
  5. QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 4Relationship Leadership4 lessons
  1. 13Influencing with Emotional Awareness
  2. 14Difficult Conversations with EQ
  3. 15Building an Emotionally Healthy Team
  4. 16Course Project: 30-Day EQ Practice
  5. QModule quiz (4 questions)
PFinal project: 30-Day EQ Practice Plan and Review

Who this course is for

  • Managers, supervisors and team leaders who want to build trust and handle people challenges better
  • Technical specialists who have recently moved into leadership roles
  • Business owners and professionals who influence others without formal authority

Requirements

  • Some experience of working with or leading other people; you do not need to be a senior manager
  • A notebook or document editor for exercises, your trigger map and your 30-day practice tracker
  • Willingness to ask colleagues for honest feedback during the course

What is included

Written lessons

16 lessons, each with a practical exercise and key points to remember.

Module quizzes

A short quiz at the end of each module. Pass mark 70%, and you can retake it.

Final project

30-Day EQ Practice Plan and Review. A practical brief with steps and a way to check your own work.

Certificate

A certificate of completion from EMFAD Courses with a unique code anyone can verify.

How the certificate works

Complete every lesson and pass every module quiz with 70% or more. Your certificate then appears in your learner area, ready to print or save as PDF. It shows your name, the course title, the completion date and a unique code. It is a certificate of completion from EMFAD Courses, not an accredited qualification.

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