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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
Emotional intelligence is a suite of skills relating to self-awareness, self-regulation, connection to and interaction with others, decision-making and stress management. It is a major determinant of our well-being and our success in life. This course uses findings from neuroscience research so participants can understand how their brain works and leverage this knowledge to improve our emotional intelligence.
Participants have the opportunity to take an online emotional intelligence self-assessment and participate in a brief one-on-one coaching session with a certified coach.
This course is offered in collaboration with Western University.
Topics Include:
- Characteristics of Good and Bad Leaders
- Connection of Emotional Intelligence to Leadership
- The Brain
- Recognizing and Regulating Emotion
- Expressing Emotion
- Empathy
- SCARF
- ORID Decision Making Model
- Looking Inward
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Schedule
| Date | Time | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 10, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Week One: Connecting Emotional Intelligence to Leadership and to Neuroscience
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Virtual via Zoom (Instructor Led) |
| October 17, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Week 2: Recognizing, Regulating and Expressing Emotion
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Virtual via Zoom (Instructor Led) |
| October 24, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Week 3: Interacting With Others
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Virtual via Zoom (Instructor Led) |
| October 31, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Week 4: Decision-Making and Looking Inwards
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Virtual via Zoom (Instructor Led) |
| Asynchronous | 6 hours | Asynchronous Content includes forum posts, four quizzes, four weekly assignments and a 25-minutes 1:1 coaching session which can be booked in the first class. | |
Key Takeaways
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Connect leadership to emotional intelligence.
- Understand your own strengths and opportunities for growth.
- Enhance your recognition of emotion including the emotions that underlie anger.
- Reduce reactivity through emotional recognition and understanding your SCARF evolutionary.
- Learn strategies to regulate emotion.
- Consider the value to leaders of connecting to other people through empathy and building positive relationships.
- Better understand your strengths and growth opportunities through self-assessment and reflection.
Who Will Benefit
CPAs, business professionals, including leaders, managers and staff of all levels, looking to understand the benefits of emotional intelligence (EQ) in the workplace. Managers and leaders who want to use empathy, humility and transparency to foster working environments that promote greater connection and higher performance in the long term.
We are thrilled to announce that if you meet the course completion requirements for this Western approved micro-credential, you will receive an email from MyCreds to claim a digital badge from Western! Badges tell a story and are embedded with data that verifies your skills and achievements. You will be able to share it with your employer, on LinkedIn and other social media sites.
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Attendance Requirements
- Participate in at least 3 of the 4 weekly real-time sessions on Zoom.
- Participate in graded forums (online discussions) in at least 3 out of 4 weeks, posting during that week.
- Complete at least 3 out of 4 of the weekly assignments.
- Complete all 4 of the short weekly quizzes.
- Participate in a 25 minute one-on-one coaching session.
How to Access the Course
We're pleased to invite you to register for our Certificate courses. Whether or not you're a CPA, you're more than welcome to join us on this learning journey. To get started, you'll need to create an account. Don't worry if you don't have a CPA Ontario ID yet; you can easily set up your account right here. Let's begin your learning adventure together.
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Speaker(s)
Janine Higgins, B.A., LL.B., has been in private practice since 1993. Her mediation practice includes a wide variety of issues, both legal and non-legal including family, insurance, estate and business law as well as workplace and organizational conflicts. Her facilitation work overlaps with mediation since it often involves resolving conflicts within large and small groups. In this area, most of her clients are in the public and non-profit sectors, e.g. hospitals, mental health organizations, public health, agriculture, charitable organizations, and professional organizations. She has facilitated and mediated in a variety of circumstances, from half day workshops to multi-session task forces. In addition, she has also been retained as a neutral fact-finder on numerous occasions.