A workshop facilitated by Olivier Montadat, Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst with Organizational Specialty

Date and Duration: Thursday, 19 April, 2012, from 10:00am to 5:00pm   Venue: Desford, Leicestershire, England

The purpose of this workshop is to invite managers, consultants, HR people to develop their awareness and control of one of the key levers to performance in organizations: Emotions.

Content: During the last 15 years, emotions have taken a growing place in the general and business literature. Emotional Intelligence can be described as the ability or skill to understand and manage yourself and your emotions, and understand and manage others and their emotions. Mastering this ability enables higher performance in the organization.
During this workshop we will be providing you with the meaning and usefulness of four universal emotions: fear, anger, sadness and joy. Participants will gain awareness about how we have more or less buried and forgotten our spontaneous and natural emotions during our childhood, and some ways and means to regain and use them in organizations.

Human beings are feeling, emotional creatures first, and rational, logical creatures second. In evolutionary terms, emotions are adaptive and act to maintain constancy of our internal body state; and this is why emotions prepare individuals for actions that are in their best interest.

Our brains are built first to generate emotions (physiological arousal, expressive behaviours) in order to quickly solve what were, in evolutionary terms, life “threatening” problems (like encountering a hungry lion…). Feeling fear, for example, means that we are facing an actual or imagined danger which will allow us to take fast, protective actions through our fight-flight-or-freeze response.

Recent studies have proved that associating emotions with thinking is a key to effective decision making and/or problem solving in organizations. This new perspective challenges the commonly shared belief that decision making or problem solving can only be dealt with by pure reason.

Methodology: This workshop will be experiential and will mix theory with live examples of situations experienced by delegates.

Cost of Workshop: £95.00 (plus VAT @ 20% - making a total of £114.00)

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