Building Blocks

A simple model for you and your team to learn emotional intelligence in a structured, sequenced way that is easy to remember and apply on a daily basis.

Learn about emotional intelligence through a simple model that allows you to remember, reference, and practice core concepts.

Our proprietary building blocks framework helps your team apply their learning on a daily basis, in a way that improves their ability to lead themselves first. Once they start seeing those results, they increasingly learn how to better lead their teams.

Why building blocks

Everyone gets it.

People know building blocks and the metaphor they can provide for our work and our lives. They know that if the bottom blocks are shaky or weak, then the higher levels will collapse: if they don’t learn how to better lead themselves, they will struggle with leading other people.

It works.

The model helps your team understand that leading others starts with leading themselves. They see the connections between the different levels and individual building blocks. They remember complex emotional intelligence competencies with simple language.

It’s complete.

The four levels address the four domains of emotional intelligence. The sixteen blocks cover the dozens of emotional intelligence competencies. And while learning them, your team sees the connections and how they can grow as leaders in a systematic, process-driven way.