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The Art of Social Intelligence for Success

Your ability to navigate effectively among colleagues and clients depend a lot on how you engage socially. Social intelligence is about understanding your relational environment and exerting a positive influence. This will in turn translate into much better relationships and opportunities. You will become more confident in social situations by learning how to express and interpret social cues. You will create positive connections and increase your influence during social situations.

Increasing social intelligence will provide benefits throughout professional and personal life. It is an excellent tool for coaching and development as professionals will engage at deeper level for higher achievement. Improving social skills through active listening, understanding body language, and being more empathic will give you the advantage in interactions. Social interactions are a two way street. And this course aims to impart the art to lasting success.

Objective

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Develop self-awareness for better connecting with people
• Enhance effective engagement with interpersonal awareness
• Recognize key social cues for smoother relating
• Connect with better empathy for collaboration

Outline

The need for social intelligence in leadership

• What is social intelligence?
• The measure of social intelligence
• Can social intelligence be developed?
• The heart of social intelligence

The heart of expert relating

• Cultivating deeper listening for lasting engagement
• How to flow in communication
• The art of appreciative techniques
• How to create the best impression

The art of true dialogues

• Creating constructive conversation for collaboration
• Practising flexible thinking and behaviour for motivating people
• Expanding your range of responses
• Accessing your resources within

The practice of mindful communication

• Cultivating deep listening for lasting connection
• Developing calm in conflictual times
• The practice of motivational dialogues
• The art of harmony

Who should attend

For anyone who need to engage with diverse clients. Your interpersonal skills should be infused with emotional and social intelligence for maximum effect. This is the workshop to zoom in and acquire genuine charisma for great work with people.

Testimonials

Very enjoyable & entertaining, trainer is very knowledgeable.
National Institute of Education

Good facilitator, able to engage me throughout the course. Enjoyed very much.
Republic Polytechnic

I learnt a lot, both technical and qualitative aspects of social intelligence. Great Videos! He is funny, lots of examples, very engaging.
Republic Polytechnic

Very entertaining and refreshing to learn about social intelligence. Mr Richard is very experienced and very knowledgeable on the topic, likes to sharing of very good examples.
Ministry of Manpower

Great knowledge on S.I acquired. Great hands on experience. Very knowledgeable and entertaining!
Ministry of Manpower

Very interesting and valuable course to help me to increase my social intelligence.
Ministry of Manpower

Very enlightening concept. Engaging & Educational. Expertise on subject is clear and explainations are concise.
Persatuan Pemudi Islam Singapura

Practical to apply at work. The workshop is good and the training is very detailed
Crescent Secondary School

Very experienced trainer. Provided very useful feedback and comments.
Changi Airport Group

Profile of Dr. Richard Lim

Director, Southeast Asia, Professional School of Psychology, California, USA

Clinical Supervisor, American Psychological Association (APA), Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)

Professional Member, American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)

Professional Member, Singapore Psychological Society (SPS)

Doctorate, PsyD, Clinical Psychology, Professional School of Psychology, California

Master in Social Science in Counselling, University of South Australia

Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Medical Studies, National University of Singapore

Bachelor in Arts and Social Science (HONS), National University of Singapore

Accredited Training Consultant, Legacy Leadership, Texas, USA

Accredited Consultant Trainer, Coach-based Consulting, Santa Fe Center, USA
Advanced training in Mindfulness, Psychodrama, Couple Therapy & Narrative Therapy

Richard focuses his professional consultancy on leadership development and organization coaching. He has worked with groups of leadership staff from multi-national companies like Coca Cola, Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Shell, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Barclays Capital, National Panasonic, Fujitsu, Courts, PSA, Continental Auto; International agencies like YMCA, Outward Bounds and World Vision; local government organizations and community institutions such as State Court, NIE, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Trade & Industry, National Environment Agency, National Council of Social Services, Singapore Sports Council, People’s Association, National Centre for Leadership Institute.

Richard works actively with parents of diverse professional backgrounds in Singapore and Jakarta for more than 15 years. As a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist, he is appointed by the Ministry of Social & Family Development and Ministry of Education in Singapore to train both parents and teachers in matter of child, family and education development. Richard was tasked by the Singapore government to oversee various youth projects in Singapore tackling issues on adolescent relationship and sexuality. These were successfully carried out from 2007 till 2014. Richard was also actively managing young adult relationship concerns in Singapore supported by the Social Development Unit under Prime Minister Office. Currently, Richard is the Consultant Psychologist to oversee and train government officials on resilience and wellness with both public and private sector organizations. In the earlier part of Richard’s career, he was a diplomat analyst of Singapore with extensive travels round the world to manage foreign affairs matters.

Richard collaborates with prominent universities in Singapore like NUS and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in training and supervising graduate students and alumni professionals in the application of behaviour science in organizations and the community. Richard was an Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Nanyang Business School on management and leadership.

Richard has written professionally for various educational and organizational development projects. Richard has given frequent media interviews on his specialty to Jakarta Now, What’s New Jakarta, The Straits Time, FM93.8Live, Japanese TV, Taiwanese TV and European media programs.