Webcast:
Today's shortening product life cycles call for continuous innovation from your talent. Research indicates that emotion influences flexible, thorough and careful thinking, creative problem solving and decision making-all elements of innovation (Isen, U of Stanford 2000). Aspects of emotional intelligence such as "social radar" and perceptual clarity are conducive to out-of-the-box thinking, team break-throughs and good salesmanship. Leveraging the power of emotion to short cut "analysis paralysis," this webcast will reveal how to increase creativity and innovation in your organization by developing your talent's emotional intelligence.
Don't miss these webcast take aways:
- Use emotional intelligence to enhance analytical and creative thinking
- Break through inhibitions to thinking outside-the-box
- Leverage the connection between humor and imagination
- Methods using emotional intelligence to boost innovation
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Presenters
Patricia Harmon is an organizational development consultant and works as a business analyst, facilitator and executive coach. She has designed and conducted advanced thinking workshops for North American organizations such as American Re-insurance Corporation, Deutsche Bank, Estee Lauder, Goldman, Sachs, J P Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Motorola, Philips Electronics and New York Times.Pat helps organizations in their efforts to bring about change by examining business trends and extrapolating from them to help companies create value monopolies. Her approach includes the use of lateral thinking techniques with a focus on nature-inspired innovation to ensure environmental sustainability.She works with senior executives in Leadership Development in the area of emotional intelligence. Using an assessment-based technology, Pat helps clients assess development needs, link development to business strategy, and implements customized development through one-on-coaching using a systems approach.Previously, Patricia was the founder and principal of a communications advisory service serving many of the Fortune 500 companies in North America, after having worked in the Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry for ten years.Patricia holds an MBA from the University of Toronto Executive Program, an MA in Human Development, and a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems from The Fielding Graduate Institute. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Cornell University.