Harvard Business School Publishing eLearning Ships The Essential Leader - Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence

Business Wire, May 9, 2005

BOSTON -- Online Leadership Program Helps Managers Optimize Team Productivity by Enhancing Emotional Leadership

Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) eLearning, the highly regarded publisher of premier leadership and management development programs, today announced the availability of Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence. The newest addition to The Essential Leader(TM) suite of products from HBSP, Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence helps managers better understand and manage their own emotional intelligence and refine interactions among direct reports and peers to drive greater productivity.

Best-seller Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance (Goleman, Boyatzis, McKee, HBS Press, 2004) declared that, "the best leaders have resonance -- a powerful ability to drive emotions in a positive direction to get results." Further research shows that leaders' emotional intelligence -- their self-awareness, empathy and rapport with others -- has clear links to their own performance. A group's emotional intelligence may have even more impact on a business, as so much work is done in teams. The manager's emotional style sets the tone for team collaboration, which significantly impacts overall organizational productivity.

"The behavior of a leader has a tremendous positive or negative impact on a team's results," commented Maureen Betses, vice president of eLearning, HBSP. "Leaders with strong emotional intelligence are better-equipped to maximize the productivity of their teams. This program will help leaders better understand this aspect of their role and show them how to adapt their leadership style for optimal team performance."

Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence is an online interactive program that helps managers improve business results through understanding the impact of words and actions, learning to navigate interactions and disarm conflict, and identifying ways to improve collaboration across their teams. The program focuses on the core components of emotional intelligence that leaders need to be successful: self-awareness; self-management; social awareness; and relationship management.

To illustrate the complexities of emotional leadership, the program offers real-world scenarios that present different outcomes depending on the decisions made by the user. It guides managers to examine their own leadership style, practice setting ground rules for team behavior, and address relationships with other teams. Managers can apply practical tools in their daily interactions to assess their teams' emotional intelligence, examine the impact of their own emotional style on the team, and pinpoint how they can strengthen their own self-awareness and effectiveness.

Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence draws on the work and research of leading business experts and authors including Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard Boyatzis, Vanessa Urch Druskat, and Steven B. Wolff. Users can reinforce their understanding of the lessons learned through four Harvard Business Review and Harvard Management Communication Letter articles included in the Additional Resources section.

Availability

Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence is immediately available. Comprehension tests are also available. To learn more, visit http://www.elearning.hbsp.org.

About The Essential Leader

The Essential Leader is a suite of interactive programs that enable mid- to senior-level managers to build critical leadership skills and apply them in their everyday work. The Essential Leader line addresses critical leadership responsibilities such as decision making, effective communication, and leading others. The suite is designed to enable managers to practice new skills in a safe environment and apply them to their daily activities utilizing practical tools. To learn more about The Essential Leader, go to http://www.elearning.hbsp.org/home/prod_essentialLeader.html

About HBSP eLearning

Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) is a wholly owned, not-for-profit subsidiary of Harvard University. The HBSP eLearning division provides online leadership and management programs to a growing list of more than 500 corporate eLearning clients. Combining premier content with flexible technology, HBSP eLearning is transforming the way that important management ideas are shared in the workplace. The eLearning product lines include Harvard ManageMentor(R), The Essential Leader(TM) and Case in Point(TM). Visit www.eLearning.hbsp.org for more information.