Burnout to Balance : Empowering Leaders Through
Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness

This comprehensive training program not only aims at equipping the participants with the required knowledge, concepts, and skills related to burnout, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and system psychodynamics at the workplace but also trains them on applying certain tools and techniques to emerge as emotionally more intelligent leaders. Through interactive sessions and practical exercises, participants will gain the required competencies and behaviours to lead their teams in an emotionally mature and authentic manner, developing the right culture within the organization that would lead to a thriving business performance.

Course Structure:

There will be a pre-program assessment using BAT assessment tool. The program will start with sharing the individual assessment reports and giving feedback to the participants. The classroom sessions will be conducted engagingly and interactively with journaling, reflections, individual and table team exercises, peer learning, role-plays, and teach-backs. The mindfulness module will make the participants experience focused meditation techniques, mindful observation, mindful conversations, etc. There will be several short audio-visual presentations to drive home the concepts and make the participants understand real-life incidents/experiences. The participants will be equipped with several tools and techniques that they can use in a consistent and useful manner.

By the end of the program, the participants will be:

• More aware of their and other people’s emotions to navigate complex business and interpersonal situations,
• More self-aware of their unconscious beliefs, motives, apprehensions, hot buttons/triggers, etc.
• Able to develop effective communication skills to influence others.
• Able to manage their and team performance effectively and achieve higher productivity.
• Able to build inclusive and diverse teams that work with each other in a collaborative manner.
• Able to take decisions that will positively impact the business performance.
• Effectively lead their teams to achieve consistent higher business performance.

Course Outline

Module 1: Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

• Role played by emotions in leadership development.
• Understanding the linkage between neuroscience and emotional intelligence.
• BAT framework and its application in real life.
• Application of EQi.2.0 competencies at the workplace.
• Self-perception, Self-Expression, Interpersonal, Decision Making and Stress Management Competencies and their application.
• Emotional Intelligence Tools and their Application

Module 2: Systems Psychodynamic Approach to Leadership

• Leadership and systems psychodynamic approach
• Understanding unconscious beliefs, motives, drivers of self and others
• Understanding the social unconscious and techniques to deal with it.
• Developing skills to navigate difficult situations at the workplace.

Module 3: Changing Self and Others

• Understanding immunity to change and how it operates at individual and group levels.
• Tools and techniques to deal with our immunity to change.
• Unconscious and conscious capabilities and their application.

Module 4: Mindfulness and Neuro-leadership

• Understanding the role of mindfulness in productivity enhancement
• Understanding neuroscience and its role in driving high-performance
• Tools and techniques to build mindfulness and neuro-capabilities for enhanced leadership.

Module 5: Economics and Burnout

• Economic Sociology
• The Economics of Burnout
• Economic Consequences of Stress-Related Occupational Illnesses (burnout) 

Target Audience: The course is tailored for executives (Functional/Departmental Heads and their Direct Reports).

Mode of MDP: Online

Fees: Rs. 500/-