Self-Regulated Leadership with Emotional Intelligence

December 17, 2024  |  10:00 AM to 12:15 PM

Zoom link will be e-mailed to registered attendees the day before the training.

Description:

Leadership is challenging work.  Directors, managers, supervisors, teachers and others – we’re all leaders.  Leading with emotional intelligence provides the firm foundation for relationships, trust, and high-functioning organizational cultures and climates of teamwork, communication and mutual support.  How can leaders optimize well-being and utilize executive function to process challenging situations, minimize reaction and stress, and respond constructively with humility, compassion and truth?  Using the Emotional Intelligence (EI) model introduced by psychologist and science journalist Daniel Goleman, this workshop unpacks some of the key elements of EI necessary for great leadership, and how we cultivate and develop these qualities in ourselves and in those around us.

Learning objectives:

• Participants will consider the motivations and mindset which provide the foundation for leading with emotional intelligence
• Participants will discuss the heartset of empathy, and utilizing well-developed social skills to support the well-being of others and cultivate organizational culture
• Participants will review anchoring practices around personal wellness and self-care, including self-awareness and self-regulation techniques which enable us to choose our best responses, rather than reacting from ego, in challenging situations

Trainer Bio:

Paul Behrman is a consultant, trainer and keynote speaker with expertise in leadership and management, and a passion for social justice and the continued development and support of early care and education systems and the ECE workforce. For more than 20 years, he served as Director for Champlain Valley Head Start in Vermont, and as Chair for Vermont Head Start Association. Paul serves as a leadership and management mentor and coach, and has participated in national workgroups convened by the federal Office of Head Start in Washington, D.C., the Head Start National Training & Technical Assistance Center for Program Management and Fiscal Operations, and the National Head Start Association. He has served as a Gubernatorial Appointee to the Vermont Blue Ribbon Commission on Financing High Quality, Affordable Child Care, worked as an attorney on behalf of low-income clients, and provided pro bono work. Paul was a Johnson & Johnson Management Program Fellow at Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Paul received a Juris Doctorate degree from UCLA School of Law, and B.A. degree in English and Communication from State University of New York at Albany. He lives in the Brave Little State of Vermont where he enjoys the majesty of nature, live music, and paddle boarding.