Business Personal Development

Emotional Intelligence: Practical Skills for Better Relationships, Decisions, and Leadership

A structured, workplace-ready course with Professor David Grant on understanding emotions, improving self-awareness, and responding with greater skill.

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Quick Course Facts
18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.7
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Emotional Intelligence: Practical Skills for Better Relationships, Decisions, and Leadership Course

This course on Emotional Intelligence gives you practical tools to improve relationships, make better decisions, and lead with greater confidence in any Business setting. Designed as a structured, workplace-ready course with Professor David Grant on understanding emotions, improving self-awareness, and responding with greater skill., it helps you turn everyday interactions into stronger outcomes.

Build Emotional Intelligence Skills For Better Business Outcomes

  • Learn the core principles of Emotional Intelligence and why they matter at work
  • Strengthen self-awareness by recognising patterns, triggers, biases, and emotional habits
  • Improve self-management so you can stay composed under pressure and respond with control
  • Develop communication, empathy, and conflict-handling skills that support stronger collaboration

A practical Emotional Intelligence course for better relationships, decisions, and leadership.

Across 18 focused lessons, you will explore the four core domains of Emotional Intelligence and learn how they shape performance, teamwork, and leadership in Business environments. The course moves from foundations to real-world application, helping you understand how emotions influence thoughts, behaviour, and the quality of your decisions.

You will examine your emotional patterns, identify triggers and habitual reactions, and practise naming emotions more accurately so you can use them more effectively. You will also learn how to manage emotions under pressure, create space between stimulus and response, and build resilience when facing stress or setbacks.

The course goes beyond self-management by showing you how to read social cues, understand empathy beyond sympathy, and listen for meaning rather than just words. You will gain practical communication skills for giving feedback, handling conflict without escalation, and building trust and psychological safety within teams.

Finally, you will apply Emotional Intelligence to decision-making and leadership, creating a personal action plan you can use immediately in your work. By the end of the course, you will be more self-aware, more composed, and better equipped to lead, collaborate, and communicate with confidence in Business and beyond.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations of Emotional Intelligence

2 lessons

This lesson introduces emotional intelligence as a practical workplace skill: the ability to notice, understand, and manage emotions in ways that improve thinking, behavior, and relationships. It expl…

Lesson 2: The Four Core Domains of Emotional Intelligence

18 min
This lesson introduces the four core domains of emotional intelligence : self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Learners will see how these domains work togeth…

Self-Awareness

3 lessons

Lesson 3: Recognising Your Emotional Patterns

20 min
This lesson helps learners notice the repeating emotional patterns that shape their reactions at work and in relationships. Instead of trying to suppress emotion, the focus is on spotting what happens…

Lesson 4: Identifying Triggers, Biases, and Habitual Reactions

18 min
This lesson helps learners spot the emotional patterns that drive their reactions at work and in relationships. It focuses on three practical sources of self-awareness: triggers that quickly activate …

Lesson 5: Naming Emotions Accurately and Using Them Well

17 min
This lesson focuses on a practical emotional intelligence skill: naming emotions accurately enough to make better choices. When people use vague labels like stressed , fine , or angry for everything, …

Self-Management

3 lessons

Lesson 6: Managing Emotions Under Pressure

20 min
This lesson focuses on what to do in the moment when pressure starts to push emotions off course. You will learn how to notice early warning signs, create a small pause before reacting, and choose a r…

Lesson 7: Building Pause, Perspective, and Response Control

18 min
This lesson focuses on the self-management skill that turns emotional intelligence into action: creating a pause before you react. Learners will practice recognizing the early signs of emotional activ…

Lesson 8: Staying Resilient During Stress and Setbacks

19 min
This lesson focuses on how to stay effective when stress, pressure, or disappointment starts to narrow your thinking and behavior. You will learn a practical resilience model: notice the early signs o…

Social Awareness

2 lessons

Lesson 9: Understanding Empathy Beyond Sympathy

18 min
Empathy is the skill of understanding another person’s experience from their perspective, not just noticing that they are upset. In this lesson, you’ll learn the difference between sympathy , empathy …

Lesson 10: Reading Cues, Context, and Unspoken Concerns

19 min
This lesson helps learners recognize emotional signals that are not stated directly: facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, timing, silence, and shifts in behavior. The focus is on reading …

Communication

3 lessons

Lesson 11: Using Emotional Intelligence in Conversation

20 min
This lesson shows how to apply emotional intelligence in everyday conversations so you can communicate more clearly, reduce defensiveness, and stay effective under pressure. The focus is on what to no…

Lesson 12: Listening for Meaning, Not Just Words

18 min
Listening for meaning means paying attention to what people are really trying to communicate, not only the words they use. In workplace conversations, the most important message is often carried by to…

Lesson 13: Giving Feedback with Clarity and Respect

19 min
This lesson shows how to give feedback in a way that is clear, respectful, and useful. You will learn how to separate the person from the behavior, describe the impact of the issue, and keep the conve…

Conflict and Collaboration

2 lessons

Lesson 14: Handling Conflict Without Escalation

21 min
This lesson focuses on how to handle conflict without escalating it by staying regulated, listening for the real issue, and choosing responses that reduce defensiveness. Learners will practice a simpl…

Lesson 15: Building Trust and Psychological Safety

18 min
This lesson focuses on one of the most practical outcomes of emotional intelligence: creating trust and psychological safety in teams. Learners will see how people decide whether it is safe to speak u…

Decision-Making

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Making Better Decisions When Emotions Are Involved

19 min
This lesson shows how to make sound decisions when feelings are running high. You will learn why emotions can narrow attention, speed up judgment, or push you toward short-term relief, and how to slow…

Leadership

1 lesson

Lesson 17: Leading with Emotional Intelligence

22 min
This lesson shows how emotional intelligence changes the way leaders influence, motivate, and respond under pressure. You will learn how to notice emotional patterns in yourself and others, stay effec…

Application and Reflection

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Creating a Personal Emotional Intelligence Plan

18 min
This lesson helps learners turn emotional intelligence from a concept into a practical plan they can use at work and in daily life. They identify the situations where emotions most affect their judgme…
About Your Instructor
Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.