Andrea Kundert
Back to the wall
1-hour virtual session

Emotional Intelligence

Four building blocks, two breakouts and one Mood Meter. The session starts with knowing your own strengths and ends with investing in the people around you.

Format
Virtual, with breakout rooms
Length
About 60 minutes
For
Individual contributors at a professional development conference
Pre-work
A character strengths survey

By the end

participants can...
  1. 1Explain the four building blocks of emotional intelligence and why they matter for growing at work.
  2. 2Use their own strengths survey results to spot the values behind their reactions.
  3. 3Use the Mood Meter and a set of empathy starters to name, manage and respond to emotions on purpose.
  4. 4Find ways to build relationship capital across their sphere of influence.

How the hour runs

more than half of it is activity
about 25 min

Self-awareness

Read your strengths results. Reflect on a recent frustration in three steps. Compare notes in rooms of three.

about 3 min

Self-management

The Mood Meter: better words for a feeling than "fine" or "good", and an app to track it.

about 15 min

Social awareness

A short video on empathy versus sympathy. Then pairs answer a real worry using empathy starters.

about 12 min

Relationship management

Relationships as an account you make deposits in. Map your sphere of influence and name one person to invest in this week.

homework: a week of Mood Meter check-ins

The kit

one for each person in the room
[SLIDE SCREENSHOT]
what the room sees

Slide deck

Follows the four blocks in order, with each activity's steps and workbook page on screen.

Open the deck
[GUIDE PAGE SCREENSHOT]
what the facilitator says

Facilitator guide

A slide-by-slide script with timings, a prep checklist, breakout setup, producer notes and end-of-class tasks.

Open the guide
[WORKBOOK PAGE SCREENSHOT]
what participants keep

Participant workbook

The reflection steps, the Mood Meter, a list of empathy starters and a sphere of influence worksheet.

Open the workbook

The back story

parking lot, for Andrea

The need

[WHO ASKED FOR THIS SESSION, AND WHAT PROBLEM IT HAD TO SOLVE.]

My role

[WHAT YOU DID: ANALYSIS, DESIGN, WRITING, VISUAL DESIGN, FACILITATION.]

What happened

[FEEDBACK, A PARTICIPANT QUOTE, HOW OFTEN IT HAS RUN.]

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