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Practical Emotional Intelligence Skills

This FREE online course provides advanced skills to maximise your effectiveness and impact at work. Emotional Intelligence is emerging as the single most effective business skill of the 21st century. Practical Emotional Intelligence Skills is full of practical techniques and will enable you to improve your Emotional Intelligence in eight key areas.

Course details

In this course, you’ll study eight units. Here’s a taste of what you’ll find out:

Unit one: Accelerated learning

  • The ability to learn more quickly and flexibly is extremely valuable and closely linked to your emotions and feelings. This unit will introduce techniques that you can use to harness the power of left and right brain thinking and includes speed- reading techniques for fast results.

Unit two: Innovation

  • Understand your creative preferences and your ability to generate innovative responses to business and personal problems. This unit gives you practical techniques to break old habits and develop new ways of generating ideas.

Unit three: Self-awareness

  • Be more effective at work by really understanding your personal strengths and weaknesses. You’ll do a self-assessment of your strengths, weaknesses, personal beliefs and feelings and learn how this links to your level of focus upon self-improvement.

Unit four: Intuition

  • This unit focuses upon the degree to which you use instincts, hunches and feelings (combined with facts) when making decisions. You’ll explore intuitive feeling skills and learn how to develop the confidence to believe in your gut reactions.

Unit five: Emotional management

  • Learn how to understand and differentiate your emotions and how to manage the impact your emotions have on others. In this unit you will identify triggers to negative emotions and learn how to develop positive alternative responses.

Unit six: Goal orientation

  • In this unit the emphasis is on your desire to achieve, your ability to persist and the energy you have to see things through. You’ll work through exercises that will help you to identify what truly motivates you to have drive and energy.

Unit seven: Empathy

  • This unit will help you to take a measure of your ability to show an interest in others, to listen to them and to ‘feel their feelings’. You will find out how to tune in to non-verbal cues and ‘read’ people better.

Unit eight: Social skills

  • Your social skills will cover a wide range of areas. This unit focuses upon building relationships and communicating. You’ll learn how to build relationships based on deeper values in order to develop real trust.

How long does it take?

Practical Emotional Intelligence Skills is a 120-hour course. Although the course is free, your commitment is time. As you get started on your course we ask you to complete a short course induction. From this the vision2learn system will provide you with an Action Plan, which will tell you when you need to submit your assessments to your tutor and help you to plan your study time into your busy lifestyle.

The support you’ll get

You will be assigned to a Further Education college in your area, which will then provide you with an online tutor. Your tutor will be available to help and guide you through the course. You can contact your tutor at any time using v-mail, vision2learn’s own internal messaging system. Tutor support is available by telephone or email too.

About the qualification

Practical Emotional Intelligence Skills leads to the accredited qualification NCFE Level 3 Certificate in Personal Effectiveness at Work. In order to successfully achieve your qualification you will need to complete self-assessment exercises as you work through each unit of the course. You will also complete a series of activities, which you’ll send to your tutor through your study area on vision2learn. Your tutor will assess these and they will build up to form your portfolio.

Current learners who are finding most benefit from this course have experience of, or are currently working in (or towards) a supervisory or managerial role in the workplace.

When you have completed all eight units, you will submit your portfolio for marking. Successful completion of your course portfolio will lead to the award of your final certificate.

The computer kit you’ll need

  • An Internet enabled PC running Microsoft Windows operating system
  • Web browser – Internet Explorer 6.0 (or later); Firefox 2.0 (or later); Opera 8.5 (or later)
  • Session cookies should be enabled
  • JavaScript should be enabled
  • An active e-mail account
  • Microsoft Word or similar word processing package
  • Acrobat Reader. Click here to download.
  • Flash player 6.0 or later. Click here to download.

Why it’s free

Vision2learn courses are eligible for government funding. This means that the courses are normally free of charge to anyone over the age of 16 who has been ordinarily resident in the EU for 3 years or more, as long as this residency has been for purposes other than full-time study. If you don’t meet these requirements, there may be other ways for your course to be fundable and you can contact us on info@vision2learn.com for more information on this.

How to keep your free place open

It’s important that you log on to your study area regularly, keep in contact with your tutor and complete the assignments as you work through your course. If you don’t do this you may lose your free place. If you are experiencing any problems with your learning please let your tutor know and they can help you and ensure that you remain enrolled on the course.

What do I do now?

After you have completed our online registration form, we will need to confirm the availability of support from our network of partner colleges. When we have confirmed that there is a place available for you in a college in your area you’ll receive an enrolment form from the college that you will need to complete and return immediately. Please remember to sign your form, as it is crucial in securing your free place. Once this form has been processed, your vision2learn study area will be activated and your chosen course will become available. You will then be able to log on and get started.