Master social intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills of Fortune 500 leaders taught by world-renowned expert
Your ability to master social intelligence and stakeholder engagement best practices will determine whether you reach your business and career goals in our increasingly-disrupted post-COVID future of work.
Yet traditional advice to "go with your gut" in social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios so often leads to disasters that devastate company bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. So what are the best practices used by the leaders of Fortune 500 companies to make the right calls in even the toughest social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios to maximize company bottom lines and advance their own careers?
These leaders recognize that science has revealed how our typical approach to social intelligence and stakeholder engagement situations suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases. These mental blindspots often lead us into social intelligence and stakeholder engagement disasters that drastically undermine our desired outcomes and goals. Fortunately, recent scholarship has shown effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases and help optimize your bottom line and your career. In this course, you will learn about and address these dangerous judgment errors, while mastering techniques for all types of social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios. You will draw on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 company leaders to help you and your teams reach your professional goals.
That's what you can expect in this course: methods used successfully by leaders at the biggest companies to seize competitive advantage for their bottom lines and careers, thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research, and featured in top media venues and best-selling books around the globe. The course will feature the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Social intelligence: Introduction and course textbook packet Learning Objective: Learn what the course will be about and get my best-selling book and other materials on which the course is based
Lesson 2: Social intelligence: Preparing for effective stakeholder engagement Learning Objective: Identify the 8 powerful questions you need to ask in preparing for effective stakeholder engagement
Lesson 3: Social intelligence: Addressing bias among your stakeholders Learning Objective: Discover how to address unconscious bias among your stakeholders to facilitate effective engagement
Lesson 4: Social intelligence: How to use empathy to understand your stakeholders Learning Objective: Master the use of 3 key empathy-based techniques to understand the truth about the perspectives of your stakeholders
Lesson 5: Social intelligence: Getting negative info from your stakeholders Learning Objective: Overcome the challenge of getting negative information about the facts of reality from your stakeholders
Lesson 6: Social intelligence: Negotiating with your stakeholders Learning Objective: Improve your ability to negotiate effectively with your stakeholders
Lesson 7: Social intelligence: Build strong stakeholder relationships Learning Objective: Acquire the social intelligence-based methods necessary to build strong stakeholder relationships
Lesson 8: Social intelligence: Facilitate effective stakeholder collaboration Learning Objective: Facilitate effective collaboration among stakeholders with differing perspectives, personalities, and predispositions
Lesson 9: Social intelligence: Address stakeholder risk denialism Learning Objective: Acquire the skills needed to address risk denialism among your stakeholders
Lesson 10: Social intelligence: Lifelong learning for content mastery Learning Objective: Gain resources for lifelong learning to have content mastery
I look forward to welcoming you into the world of evidence-based, science-driven techniques tested in the real world of many Fortune 500 companies and numerous middle-market companies. To ensure that you master the best practices of Fortune 500 companies to help yourself seize competitive advantage for your bottom line and career in social intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills, register now!
Who is this course for? This course is for current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve their social intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills using Fortune 500 company best practices. They will get the most benefit from this course, as case studies and examples are best suited to their need to seize a competitive advantage in the hybrid and remote future of work.
10 activities • 10 videos • duration: 1h 45m
"Master science-based best practices of Fortune 500 firms" You are getting the benefit of my two decades of experience as a trainer and consultant for Fortune 500 executives, managers, and supervisors when you take my courses. As the CEO of the training and consulting firm Disaster Avoidance Experts, I trained these leaders on my areas of expertise – cutting-edge behavioral science-based techniques in decision making, future proofing, and cognitive bias risk management in the future of work. and related fields. My clients include Fortune 500 firms such as Aflac, Applied Materials, Entergy, Honda, IBM, Jones Lang LaSalle, Reckitt, Wells Fargo, and Xerox; large nonprofits such as the World Wildlife Fund and The Columbus Foundation; government agencies such as the US Defense Health Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; as well as numerous middle-market companies and quickly-growing startups. You can be confident that you are getting the training courses that these organizations paid me a lot of money to develop. Besides these two decades of real-world experience, my expertise also comes from a deep research background as a behavioral scientist. I spent over 15 years in academia, first getting a PhD and teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then teaching for 7 years as a professor at Ohio State University, where I published numerous peer-reviewed academic publications. While there, I taught thousands of students online and in-person using the latest principles in the educational psychology of adult learning. My teaching combines Fortune 500 best practices with groundbreaking research findings and educational psychology methodologies. My expertise has been widely recognized in over 550 articles I published and 450 interviews I gave to prominent venues. They include Fortune, USA Today, Fast Company, CBS News, CNBC, Time, Business Insider, Government Executive, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Inc. Magazine. Publishers and readers also recognize the quality of my content. I published 7 best-selling books, including global bestsellers Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019) and The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (New Harbinger Press, 2020). My newest best-seller is Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage (Intentional Insights, 2021). My expertise is globally renowned. My writing was translated into and published in Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish, French, German, and other languages. On a personal note, I live in Columbus, Ohio. In my free time, I enjoy tennis, gardening, and reading. I also make sure to spend abundant quality time with my wife to avoid my personal life turning into a disaster. I hope to see you in my classes and look forward to sharing the techniques used by executives, managers, and supervisors at Fortune 500 firms with you.
I had never heard of social intelligence before but can see how I could've used it throughout my career. I definitely see how it could've improved work relationships thus increasing productivity.
This training on social intelligence and stakeholder engagement highlighted just how essential these skills are in today’s workplace. In an environment shaped by hybrid work, complex relationships, and constant change, the ability to communicate with empathy, build rapport, and navigate stakeholder dynamics is more important than ever. We explored high-impact strategies used by leaders at top companies, including empathetic listening, mirroring, and echoing to build trust, as well as methods to recognize and address unconscious bias. The training also emphasized the dangers of cognitive biases that can cloud our judgment, and how to overcome them to improve decision-making. From preparing for tough conversations to negotiating with empathy, these tools help us connect better, collaborate smarter, and drive stronger outcomes. Mastering these skills doesn’t just elevate how we lead, it gives us a real competitive edge.
I really liked this information and found it very applicable to both my personal and professional life. His presentation style was also easy to follow and maintained my attention.
Great insight into unconscious bias as well as negotiating with stakeholders.
