Growth Potential Consulting Adds Social + Emotional Intelligence to Service Offerings

Aug. 25, 2014 - PRLog -- PRINCETON, NJ – Jennifer Smith, Leadership Expert at Growth Potential Consulting, has been certified as a Social + Emotional Intelligence Coach through the Institute of Social + Emotional Intelligence® of Denver, Colorado.

As a Certified Social + Emotional Intelligence Coach, Smith will add assessments, coaching, and workshops about this topic to the portfolio of services offered by Growth Potential Consulting (GPC).  GPC is an executive leadership coaching, facilitating, and consulting firm that helps leaders transform themselves, their people and their company culture.

“Cultivating a culture where leaders have high social and emotional intelligence creates proven results in increased productivity, increased sales and profits, reduced healthcare costs, increased employee satisfaction and improved employee engagement to name a few,” says Belsten, PhD and founder of the Institute for Social + Emotional Intelligence®.

Belsten goes on to say, "Managers with high scores in the relevant relationship management competencies of communication, building bonds, building trust, and inspirational leadership, are better equipped to manage their employees in a manner that brings out the best in individuals and teams.”

Emotional intelligence (EI or EQ) encompasses many skill sets, including stress management, emplathy, resilience, managing conflict productively, powerful influencing skills, catalyzing change, teamwork and collaboration, building trust and more.

The Institute of Social + Emotional Intelligence® offers the Social + Emotional Intelligence Profile (SEIP)®, the most comprehensive emotional intelligence assessment instrument on the market today, measuring 26 distinct social and emotional intelligence competencies.

GPC has included the SEIP® as one of the assessments used in the How Am I Doing? Leadership Coaching Program that helps leaders get very clear – quickly – about what is getting in their way of them coming up with strategies to address their most current challenges.  Learn more at www.growthpotentialcons.com.