Training Participants’ View of the Benefits of Emotional Intelligence Skill-building
As a part of my Emotional Intelligence training program, I teach a creative technique to help people who are tasked with a project, challenge or subject to identify issues, events, or other things that might be required to accomplish that project, overcome the challenge, or explore the subject. The technique begins with a traditional ” mind map” where the project or challenge is entered as the “topic” into a circle in the middle of a page. Then, in turn, spokes are drawn from that circle as the group identifies major factors or ideas related to the topic. Ideas relating to the major factors are entered on lines drawn off the major factor lines.
When the group has exhausted all their ideas, they use another technique I teach that enables them to get their hearts and brains “in synch.” As a result of this coherence, people typically generate more ideas and create a more robust view of the issues that must be addressed to accomplish a project or are associated with the topic. This more robust view overlaying the mind map is called a Heart Map®.
While in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates this past month, a group of leaders explored the topic of “The Impact and Benefits of Emotional Intelligence.” Their work is pictured below. The items in blue indicate the ideas they generated before they used the technique that helped them gain greater coherence. The ideas generated as a result of using this technique are indicated in red.
Map Generated by Program Participants
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