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INSTRUCTOR: Brent Darnell, Aff.M.ASCE

Purpose and Background

The AEC industry is moving toward more collaborative ways of project delivery such as CM at risk, Design-Build, Design-Assist, Lean, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), and Integrated Lean Project Delivery (ILPD). These more collaborative ways of working require a different set of skills. No longer can we be technically excellent and adequately execute a project. We now must utilize our emotional intelligence and people skills to create collaborative design and construction teams, communicate effectively, and resolve conflicts easily. This new set of skills is vital to our project success and our success as an industry. This course covers what emotional intelligence is, why it is important, and how it can be measured and improved. You will also take an emotional intelligence test, understand your results and have access to resources to improve your emotional competence.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the basics of emotional intelligence: how it is defined and how it relates to success or failure in the AEC Industry, especially with more collaborative project delivery methods. You will also understand how it relates to your performance, success, and failure.
• Identify how Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of your life including mental and physical processes, your interactions with others, and your view of the world.
• Examine how Emotional intelligence can be measured and improved and what it takes to improve it.
• Recall how to measure your Emotional Intelligence and how you can improve it by analyzing where you are now, where you want to be, and how to get there through detailed development plans, measurement, and accountability.

Program Benefits

• Demonstrate an understanding of the definition of Emotional intelligence and how the typical AEC emotional profile contributes to many industry problems.
• Analyze your own emotions and identify how they affect your day-to-day interactions with others and your own mental and physical performance, health, and well-being.
• Analyze the various EI profiles and emotional pairings and clearly define what they mean in terms of performance in key areas of life and work.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how Emotional Intelligence can be measured and improved.
• Take the Ghyst Emotional Intelligence (EI) Test, analyze your Emotional Intelligence profile, determine what it means, then have the ability to create plans to develop and improve your EI, your performance, and your interactions with others.

Program Outline

• EI basics such as definition, measurement, and how it can be improved
• Case studies and practical examples of how EI improved the life and work of various people
• Take the Ghyst Emotional intelligence Test
• Review test results and what your results mean and how it affects your life and work through the Emotional Intelligence Roadmap and create development plans to improve emotional competence

Your registration fee includes lunch, refreshment breaks, and guarantees your seat at the course.