Project Management
Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers
A one-day applied workshop on the EQ skills that separate competent project managers from trusted ones — self-awareness, regulation, influence, and empathy under pressure.
- Format
- Live virtual or private on-site
- Duration
- 1 day
- Level
- Practitioner
- From
- $695.00
About this course
Course overview
The technical skills get you the role. The emotional ones get the project delivered.
Project managers live at the intersection of people, politics, and deadlines. Technical mastery of schedules, scope, and risk will only take you so far — the difference between a competent PM and a trusted one usually comes down to emotional intelligence. This one-day workshop is a practical, applied deep-dive into the EQ skills that separate the two.
Built around the four-domain EQ model (self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, relationship management), the course uses live scenario work, peer coaching, and guided reflection to help you recognize your own patterns under pressure, regulate reactive responses, read the room, and influence stakeholders without resorting to authority.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Recognize your default stress responses and the patterns that undermine your credibility
- Regulate reactivity in high-stakes meetings — conflict, escalations, and executive pressure
- Read stakeholder signals accurately and name the dynamics that move a project forward
- Lead difficult conversations with directness and care instead of avoidance or bulldozing
- Earn 8 PDUs (7 Power Skills, 1 Business Acumen)
Audience
Who it's for
- Practicing project and program managers who already know the mechanics and want the behavioral edge
- Team leads and scrum masters navigating cross-functional or matrixed environments
- PMO leaders coaching other PMs through hard conversations
- Anyone who has ever lost a project to politics they saw coming but couldn't name
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Morning — Self-Awareness & Self-Regulation
- The four-domain EQ model and how it shows up in project work
- Your reactive defaults under pressure
- Naming emotions precisely — the precursor to regulation
- Practices for resetting in real time
Afternoon — Social Awareness & Relationship Management
- Reading the room: signals vs. noise
- Empathy as a project skill (not a soft skill)
- Difficult conversations: direct and caring, not nice and vague
- Influence without authority
Public cohorts
Upcoming sessions
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We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.
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