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Emotional intelligence training

For teams and managers

Customized workshops and coaching, built on emotional intelligence and DISC assessments, that help your people build trust, communicate clearly and stay steady under pressure.

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Why emotional intelligence belongs in leadership training

Technical skill gets people promoted. How they handle pressure, feedback and disagreement decides whether their team follows them.

Rising Above builds emotional intelligence into its high-performance leadership programs. We work with organizations to build trust, leadership and communication skills, so teams collaborate more and get more done.

Your managers learn to notice their own reactions, read the people around them and choose a better response, in the meetings and conversations where it counts.

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How a Rising Above program works

Every program is customized to your organization. Most follow the same arc: understand how your people work, practice new skills together, then make them stick.

Assess

Each participant completes emotional intelligence, DISC behaviors and motivators assessments from the Science of Self®. Team profiles show where working styles fit and where they clash.

Practice

Engaging, dynamic workshops turn the results into skills people use in meetings, feedback conversations and conflict. Choose on-site training, a keynote or a virtual learning program.

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Coaching and benchmarking tools keep the work going after the session, so managers turn new insight into daily habits and you can see progress over time.

What your team works on

We shape each program around your goals. Common focus areas include:

  • Self-awareness

    Understand your own behavioral style, motivators and the situations that trigger you.

  • Composure under pressure

    Stay steady when deadlines and change pile up, informed by organizational stress analytics.

  • Communication

    Adapt how you speak and listen to colleagues with different DISC styles.

  • Trust and feedback

    Give and receive feedback in a way that builds trust instead of defensiveness.

  • Conflict and collaboration

    Work through disagreement so the team keeps moving and decisions stick.

  • Multicultural teams

    Treat cultural diversity as an asset to communication and problem-solving in a global workplace.

Built for the people who lead your teams

New and experienced managers

Build the people skills that a promotion does not teach: reading the room, coaching and handling hard conversations.

Whole teams

Give a team a shared language for working styles, so collaboration improves and friction drops.

Executives and HR leaders

Use assessments, team profiles and benchmarking to plan development across the organization.

Clients range from Fortune 500 corporations and educational institutions to small businesses.

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Coaches who reflect the global workplace

Our leadership training team is multicultural and multilingual. We see cultural diversity as an asset to communication and problem-solving, and that view shapes how we teach emotional intelligence.

Our professionals come from a range of industry backgrounds, so they bring practical, results-driven solutions instead of theory alone. Se habla español.

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Emotional intelligence training FAQ

Emotional intelligence training helps people recognize and manage their own emotions, and read and respond well to the emotions of others. At Rising Above it is part of our high-performance leadership programs, so managers and teams practice these skills in the moments they face at work: feedback, conflict, pressure and change.

Plan your emotional intelligence program

Tell us about your team and what you want to change. We will follow up to talk through goals, format and timing.