Self Awareness & Personal Development
Emotional Intelligence: Internal Saboteurs
Name the internal voices that hijack judgement, and take the wheel back.
The business challenge
Why organizations ask for this.
Internal biases and emotional triggers (the “saboteurs”) undermine relationships, decisions and leadership effectiveness. Under stress, well-trained professionals revert to automatic patterns and make predictable, expensive mistakes.
Approach & methodology
How the programme actually runs.
3 modules · 6 weeks · Blended · facilitated by consultants with a psychotherapy background
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Saboteur profile assessment
Identifying which internal voices speak loudest under pressure, and when.
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Emotional regulation tools
Practical techniques for interrupting the automatic response in the moment.
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Reframing
Rewriting the narrative with the same rigour you would apply to a business assumption.
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Coaching-based reflection
Facilitated reflection that turns the insight into a habit.
Competencies built
What participants can do afterwards.
Emotional intelligence
Name what you are feeling accurately enough to do something about it.
Empathy
Read the emotion driving the other person's position.
Self-awareness
Recognise the perfectionist, the pleaser and the controller when they take over.
Impulse control
Put a gap between the trigger and the response, and use it.
Expected business outcomes
What the organization should see.
More emotionally balanced and empathetic leadership
Reduced interpersonal friction
Higher engagement and trust in teams
Schedule & format
Practical details.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
All employees and leaders.
3 modules · 6 weeks. The rhythm is deliberate: modules are spaced so participants apply the behaviour at work between sessions.
Blended · facilitated by consultants with a psychotherapy background. We adapt the mix to your geography and shift patterns.
Yes, and it always is. We start with two to three individual conversations with selected participants, then rebuild the cases, the language and the practice situations from your business.
Kirkpatrick levels one to four: reaction, knowledge, self-assessed behaviour, and the participant's manager assessing the same competencies. We agree the target behaviours with the sponsor before design starts.
Digital missions and buddy work on PROMOTE, with the participant's own manager involved. This is the difference between 15–20% and 60–80% transfer into practice.
Yes. We also deliver in French across our Western European and African operations.
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