Your Best Self
at
Work
Aligning Strengths,
Emotional Intelligence
and
Resilience
Benjamin L. Dilla, PhD
COACHING
Discovery: Have an initial call for background and goal-setting; complete assessment of strengths, emotional intelligence, and resilience
Insight: Experience the coaching process to understand and apply assessment results for better alignment and greater effectiveness with current challenges and opportunities
Action: Implement new practices with periodic follow-up coaching sessions to ensure progress
What you’ll experience: Assessments of your core talents and strengths, emotional intelligence skills, and resilience practices, with discussion in coaching about your results in each area as well as how the three areas could align better for peak performance.
TEAMBUILDING
- Discovery: Team leader(s) participate in initial call for needs assessment; ask team members to complete individual and team assessments
- Insight: Team coaching process to understand and apply assessment results and better align individual strengths, emotional intelligence skills, and team resilience practices
- Action: Apply new skills and practices with periodic follow-up coaching sessions; reassess to gauge progress
What it looks like: Multiple assessments, skills training, and discussion as a team about how to better leverage each team member’s strengths, have an emotionally intelligent culture with trust and psychological safety, and build team resilience practices for the challenges of your work together.
WORKSHOPS
- Discovery: Leaders have initial call for needs assessment; cross-sectional interviews with sample of participants to gather their input and ideas; assessments for pre-work prior to training
- Insight: Active learning approach (experiential activities, case studies, and discussions) to enhance strengths, improve emotional intelligence skills, and increase team resilience practices
- Action: Reconnect via Zoom calls and online activities to gauge progress and answer questions
What you’ll see: Multiple training workshops with presentations and discussions on strengths, emotional intelligence, and resilience, with case studies and experiential activities to build skills and apply new insights.
SPEAKING
- Discovery: Leaders have initial call for needs assessment; cross-sectional interviews with sample of participants to gather their input and ideas; assessments for pre-work prior to training
- Insight: Active learning approach (experiential activities, case studies, and discussions) to enhance strengths, improve emotional intelligence skills, and increase team resilience practices
- Action: Reconnect via Zoom calls and online activities to gauge progress and answer questions
What you’ll see: Multiple training workshops with presentations and discussions on strengths, emotional intelligence, and resilience, with case studies and experiential activities to build skills and apply new insights.
Praise for Your Best Self at Work
Praise for
Your Best Self
at
Work
TESTIMONIALS FROM THE BUSINESS WORLD
“The best way to lead better is to be better! Required reading for every manager!”
Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 best-selling author of Triggers, Mojo and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There; Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach and #1 Leadership Thinker
“Your Best Self at Work is a fresh synthesis of strengths, emotional intelligence and resilience applied to leadership development. It reads like a wholehearted business novel though it’s written on rock solid research by two brilliant PhDs. Read on, friends.”
“I love the synergy of personal strengths, emotional intelligence (EI), and resilience. What a powerful blend to activate our best leadership skills. The story of Sam brought the book alive for me and I could identify with the challenges she experienced.”
