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Overview: ChoiceCenter’s Emotional Intelligence workshops strengthen the core values and principles that are fundamental to business success by evoking and developing a leader’s emotional intelligence (EQ).

EQ workshops are designed for organizations whose leaders know that people are their most important resource, and who want to invest in supporting their key employees to become balanced, effective, and fulfilled human beings. Companies whose policy is to promote from within will also find the workshops a place from which senior and middle managers come away revitalized, and connected to their personal vision and purpose. By the end of the workshop, many participants experience that they have been given a valuable gift of self-renewal. The result is a new-found sense of dedication and commitment to their careers and their organizations.

EQ workshops provide participants with a unique opportunity for increasing self-awareness, and for genuinely assessing strengths and weaknesses. Giving and receiving honest feedback from others is an important part of this process. In this supportive environment, as self-awareness grows, new possibilities open up. Instead of repeating old, unproductive patterns of behavior, people begin to make new choices. They break through self-limiting beliefs and attitudes that have been holding them back from living up to their full potential.

Over the course of the EQ workshop, there is space to communicate openly and honestly, take interpersonal risks, and look at life from fresh new perspectives. In the process, leaders experience the power of taking full responsibility and ownership for the results in their lives – one of the foundations of emotional intelligence. Cynicism, skepticism, doubt, and distrust are transformed into aliveness and optimism. There is a renewed willingness to take initiative, and to participate wholeheartedly as a member of the team.

In ChoiceCenter’s EQ workshop, participants are challenged to commit themselves to their own personal growth and development as a professional in their chosen field. They explore their own values, and gain certainty about what is truly important and meaningful in their lives and careers. By the end of the workshop, there is greater clarity about key goals, and the path that leads to their fulfillment.