TRAINING & EVENTS

Cost: $499

April 7, 14, and 21, 2026

Why should you care about being more Emotionally Intelligent?  So that you can improve self-awareness, build stronger relationships with your team, create a more positive and productive work environment, and make better decisions. By understanding your own emotions and those of others, leaders can manage stress, inspire motivation, and adapt more effectively to change

Utilizing structured, science-based techniques and emotional intelligence competencies from Positive Psychology, this deep dive into emotional intelligence over 3 weeks will help you:

• Improve communication and collaboration
• Decrease conflict and stress
• Increase employee engagement and boost morale

Using the Sailboat Metaphor™ throughout the course, you will enjoy learning to be an effective and efficient captain of your team and your emotions. Many people look at themselves from a very limited perspective. The lens through which they view themselves often highlights weaknesses and limitations, focusing on conditions for being good enough and flaws to be corrected.

The Sailboat Metaphor offers people a different, more holistic lens to look at themselves. It highlights both the factors that reduce our wellbeing as well as those that allow us to flourish and grow.

In this program, You will learn:

• 8 Sailboat elements and how they reflect facets of your internal and external reality
• 4 Captain elements that help us understand our psychological processes
• Key components of emotion
• 5 key E-Skills and the tools to practice them effectively and confidently.

Researchers have determined that emotional intelligence accounts for 58% of job performance. More than 90% of top performers demonstrate high EI, and those with higher EI earn up to $29,000 more annually—making it one of the most needed modern skills.

About the Instructor: Lisa Pustelak

Lisa Pustelak is NWIRC’s Culture Development Manager. She has over 25 years of experience working with companies to help people develop their potential. Lisa is a certified Professional Coach through Duquesne University, certified Balance Score Card Professional, certified DDI Facilitator, and a member of Women in Manufacturing, NTMA, Association of Talent Development, and PA Business and Professional Women. She develops leaders and employees with onsite or public training programs on topics such as critical thinking, leadership development, communication skills, strategic planning, culture development, and coaching.