McVey Leadership Transformation Retreats

Becoming More Emotionally Intelligent

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OVERVIEW

This program is designed to help you understand how you best contribute to your practice using emotional intelligence as the language to assess your leadership strengths and challenges. Lead with greater impact and apply emotional intelligence to manage and drive peak performance in your direct reports and team. Recent studies indicate that emotional intelligence is a powerful key to effective leadership. This valuable program delivers the in-depth knowledge and practical emotional intelligence skills you need to ensure that you are a strong, emotionally intelligent leader.These skills allow you to transform your primary challenges at work.

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We invite you to be a part of this special four-day experience where you’ll explore your personal leadership style in a safe and educational environment. After attending this program, you will have increased your value to the practice as a leader and improved your connections to team members who look to you for direction.

The curriculum is jam-packed with opportunities to learn about emotional intelligence skills and how they apply to your practice. The class is highly interactive, including small-group exercises, time for reflection, and skill building. And the social time is equally as stimulating, with a cocktail reception and two optional networking dinners.

Highlights of what you’ll learn in Shawn McVey’s program include:

  • Why using emotional intelligence skills makes good business sense
  • How emotional intelligence can transform you into a sensational leader
  • Techniques for building skills in self-awareness, self- management, relationship awareness, and relationship management

Your take-homes include:

  • New skills that transform you into an emotionally intelligent leader that the team wants to follow
  • A personal vision statement that details how you will lead the practice
  • A 15-page customized report detailing your strengths and weaknesses in emotional intelligence and how you compare to others nationwide
  • A personal development plan that will help you continue to build your emotional intelligence skills

Shawn uses his combined professional experience in business management and psychotherapy to help you take an honest look at your practice and uncover blind spots in your emotional-intelligence skills. You will share your practice’s greatest challenge and uncover the barriers that keep you from performing your best as a leader and overcoming that challenge.

You’ll explore your personal vision of how you can best contribute to the practice and learn how to leverage that vision into an inspiring message you can communicate to your team. Together, we’ll unpack the 19 competencies of emotionally intelligent leaders, determine which competencies are your greatest strengths, and further develop your competencies throughout the program with interactive and reflective exercises that give you plenty of opportunity to practice your new skills.

This unique retreat is unlike any other continuing education event and is well suited for those in leadership positions, managers, and practice owners.

Commando Conversations:

Becoming Conflict Competent

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OVERVIEW

How often do you face conflict at work? If you dread it, you’re not alone! Bolster your confidence and learn how to deal gracefully with conflict and difficult conversations by attending this four-day intensive, interactive program. You will develop specific skills that allow you to productively manage conflict—one of the most critical leadership skills. You’ll take a comprehensive conflict-competence assessment, build new skills, and walk away with a personalized development plan.

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The curriculum is full of opportunities to build skills, such as self-awareness, expert observation of others’ behavior, and coaching. The class is highly interactive, including small-group exercises, time for reflection, and workshop-type skill building. And the social time is equally as stimulating, with a cocktail reception and three optional dinners. After attending this program, you will have increased your value to the practice as a leader and improved your connections to team members who look to you for direction.

Highlights of what you’ll learn include:

  • Why dealing with conflict productively makes good business sense
  • How to create productive outcomes of conflict while reducing the likelihood of escalation or harm
  • How conflict competence can transform you into a sensational leader
  • Techniques for building skills in self-awareness, observing others’ behavior to prevent escalation of conflict, and creating a culture of conflict competence in your entire team

Your take-homes include:

  • New skills that transform you into expert in managing conflict productively
  • A customized report detailing your strengths and weaknesses when dealing with conflict and how you compare to others nationwide
  • A personal development plan that will help you continue to build your conflict competence

Shawn uses his combined professional experience in business management and psychotherapy to help you take an honest look at your ability to handle conflict and uncover blind spots in your emotional-intelligence skills. You will share your greatest challenges and uncover the barriers that keep you from performing your best as a leader in difficult situations. You’ll build the foundation of a plan to continue to develop your emotional intelligence skills.

If we haven’t convinced you yet, here are just a few outcomes from this retreat:

  • Personally, you’ll feel ready for any situation. At work and at home, the people around you will be amazed by your confidence, ease, and grace in handling difficult situations.
  • You can teach your team to use conflict as a tool to foster creativity and innovation. You’ll be tossing around new ideas rather than doing the same ol’, same ol’.
  • You’ll create a safe environment and common language to help your team members grow and learn how to be masters of conflict themselves.
  • You will avoid the stress of closed communication, not sharing information, and quick decisions that lead to problems later on. Less stress means more fun!

If you’re frustrated with your ability to handle conflict at work, rest easy knowing that you’ll leave with the skills you need to make it look like a piece of cake. This unique retreat is unlike any other continuing education event and is well suited for those in leadership positions, managers, and practice owners.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0: 

Kicking It Up a Notch

October 3rd through 6th, 2013 in Austin, Texas

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This program builds on the skills you developed in Shawn McVey’s “Becoming More Emotionally Intelligent” Retreat.  We’ll revisit your personal emotional intelligence skills with a 360-degree assessment completed by your staff and colleagues. Let’s explore the improvements you’ve made and how to take your emotional intelligence up a notch.

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