Analysis of Project Leader's Emotional Intelligence Workshop Structure

This document outlines a two-day workshop designed to enhance the emotional intelligence of project leaders. The workshop focuses on defining leadership, exploring leader moods and competencies, and identifying the elements of emotional intelligence. Activities include an introduction, discussions, and pairing professions to evaluate competencies and their relationship with emotional intelligence. The workshop aims to provide practical knowledge on leadership roles, improve communication skills, and foster cooperation among participants. The structure includes an activity chart detailing the schedule, purpose, and description of each session, including extempore sessions, group discussions, and group presentations. The workshop emphasizes the impact of emotional intelligence on project performance, providing participants with tools to improve their leadership and team management skills. References are provided for further reading.

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Contents
Activity chart..............................................................................................................................2
Extempore:.................................................................................................................................4
Group discussion:.......................................................................................................................4
Pairing profession:.....................................................................................................................4
Group Presentation:....................................................................................................................5
Workshop Expectation:..............................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

The layout of the interaction workshop is designed for addressing emotional intelligence
of the Project Leader
Proposed workshop is arranged for identifying the role of project leader and value of
addressing emotional intelligence so that connectivity with the team members can be
improved. In the workshop, we will focus on defining leadership, types of leader moods,
competencies associated with the leadership, elements of emotional intelligence of the project
leader, and identifying impact of emotional intelligence on the leadership competency.
Workshop will be completed in two days. The scheduling of the time is managed between 9
am to 12 noon.
Activity chart
Day Activity
schedule time
Activities Purpose and Description
Day 1 9 am to 10
am
Introduction of the
presenters and participants.
Focus is also given on the
theme of the workshop
which is “emotional
intelligence of project
manager”
This session focuses on highlighting
the concept of the theme so that
participants and audience are able to
evaluate the importance of the
workshop
Day 1 10 am to
10.30 am
Introduction to the
leadership and emotional
intelligence
It provides knowledge about the basic
concepts of the workshop to the
participants
Day 1 10.30 am to
11 am
Lunch Break
Day 1 11 am to 12
noon
Group discussion on the
relationship which exist on
the leadership and
emotional intelligence
It provides opportunities to the
participants to identify knowledge
gained by the undertaken workshop
Day 2 9 am to 10
am
Session starts with the types
of leader moods and
competencies associated
This session focuses on giving detail
knowledge about the leader mood and
what are the competencies associated

with the leadership with the leadership which can affect
the project leader performance.
Day 2 10 am to
10.30 am
Session continues with the
identification of elements of
emotional intelligence of the
project leader
How association of the emotional
intelligence elements works on
improving the performance of the
project leader
Day 2 10.30 am to
11 am
Lunch Break
Day 2 11 am to 12
noon
Pairing professions are
organized to evaluate
competencies associated
with the leadership and its
relationship with the
elements of emotional
intelligence
It provides opportunities to the
participants to identify knowledge
gained by the undertaken workshop
about the competencies associated
with the leadership and its
relationship with the elements of
emotional intelligence
Day 3 9 am to 10
am
In the last day, focus is
given on identifying impact
of emotional intelligence on
the leadership competency
and arrangement of group
presentation
Workshop purpose is to provide clear
knowledge to the participants about
the impact of emotional intelligence
on the leadership competency
Day 3 10 am to
10.30 am
Query session In this session, participants can clear
their doubts by asking queries to the
experts.
Day 3 10.30 am to
11 am
Lunch Break
Day 3 11 am to 12
noon
Taking feedback and vote of
thanks to the presenters and
participants
Feedback is collected from the
participants about the knowledge
gained by the organization of the
workshop. Vote of thanks is given to
the experts and participant for making
the workshop successful.

Extempore:
Extempore is arranged for the participants to identify their knowledge gained from the
workshop by providing them 3 minutes time to speak about leadership and emotional
intelligence, the elements of emotional intelligence which are indulge in the project manager
behaviour, and their personal experiences (Anderson, 2015). It helps in bringing connectivity
of the participants with the workshop objectives. It helps in identifying the knowledge gained
by the participants about the types of leader mood, element of emotional intelligence, and
impact of emotional intelligence on the project leader to manage the working project
activities.
Group discussion:
In the group discussion, group of five members are made. Each member represents one mood
of the leader which helps in evaluating the project outcome and how it get influenced with the
changing mood of the project manager. Different moods of the project leader are joy, anger,
sorrow, frustration, exhaustion, and cynicism. It helps in judging the positive and negative
impact of the project leader mood on the project performance (Badewi, 2015). It helps in
determining the reasons of project failure. It provides opportunities to the participants to
identify knowledge gained by the undertaken workshop about the competencies associated
with the leadership and its relationship with the elements of emotional intelligence
Pairing profession:
Groups of the participants are developed so that they can mix with the new companions. They
are provided to choose activities of the project leader which requires maximum amount of
emotional intelligence which are named as strategic planning and leadership, increasing
capability of the team members, managing interface between the stakeholder, managing
change, enabling intellectual leadership, managing relationship with stakeholders, and
continuous learning and experience. Each participant selects the role according to their choice
and they are asked how the emotional intelligence can affect their role adopted (Haughey,
2014). 6 minutes are provided to them to identify the relationship between the emotional
intelligence and the role played by the project leader.

Group Presentation:
Participants are provided an opportunity to express their knowledge gained from the
workshop about the relationship between the emotional intelligence and project leader. There
are 6 emotional intelligence element which changes the behaviour of the project leader and
their way of formulating the given role. Key elements of the emotional intelligence are
named as self-awareness, motivation, resilience, sensitivity, intuitiveness, consciousness, and
influence. It is required to establish the connection between the emotional intelligence
elements and the role performed by the project leader such as strategic planning and
leadership, increasing capability of the team members, managing interface between the
stakeholder, managing change, enabling intellectual leadership, managing relationship with
stakeholders, and continuous learning and experience. Group Presentation is complying with
some difficulties because the way of presentation of each participant is different (Hornstein,
2015). It is required to manage the cooperation between the presenters so that personalities
and emotional intelligence application of the participants get enhanced by the arrangement of
the workshop.
Workshop Expectation:
Workshop is organized to provide clear knowledge to the participants about the impact of
emotional intelligence on the leadership competency. The purpose of the workshop is to
provide practical knowledge to the participants about the leadership role played by the project
leader to accomplish the project successfully. Elements of the emotional intelligences change
the mood and willingness of the project manager to lead the project. It is important for the
team members, employees, and project leaders to analyse the importance of emotional
intelligence in leading the project because it helps in bringing coordination and connectivity
between the different units to work in the single direction of project goal. Participants are
able to develop their personalities, communication skills, and attitude by presenting their
perception, knowledge earned, and learning from the workshop. It brings feeling of
confidence in them. Groups of the participants are developed so that they can mix with the
new companions. It brings feeling of cooperation and coordination among them to work
together in achieving the project goal and objectives. Workshop provides the deep
understanding about the concept of leadership, emotional intelligence, elements of emotional
intelligence, role of project leader, and impact of emotional intelligence on the performance

of the project leader. Arranging of group discussion, participant pairing, and group
presentation improves their presentation and communication skills.
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