A presentation for the PMCIC on The Power Of You: Emotional Intelligence. Don't let other people steal your energy!! Want to bring it in? Contact info@russellmartin.com

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presented by
Lou Russell,
Russell Martin & Associates, A Moser Consulting company
for PMCIC
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Learning Goals
• Prioritize focus and energy by clarifying YES and
saying NO based on your purpose
• Leverage emotional awareness and regulations to
grow potential performance
• Own your power

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Clearing the Head Trash
List 5 things on your to-do list (that you aren’t doing right now):
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Process Project Task
TASK
PROJECT
PROCESS

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Deep Dive Regulation
• Take 3 deep breaths in a comfortable sitting position.
• With each additional breath, tell yourself “I am Here.
It is now”. Do this five times.

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What’s Different? Projects Are Flash Mobs

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Enthusiasm
Time Adapted from Robert Lewis’ book Bare Bones Project
Management
Unenlightened optimism
Dawning pessimism
Enlightened optimism
Pre-completion panic
Success!
The Lifecycle of a Project

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Multitasking and the Brain

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Leveraging Strengths and
Noticing Blind Spots

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The Reptilian Brain and Decisions
Four-Hour Emotional
Hangover
-Dr. Izzy Justice, Emotional Quotient
The gap between. . .
• What I believe should be true
• What I see to be true

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Fight, Flight or
Freeze

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Four Hour
Emotional
Hangover
Your Body Reacts: It’s Chemical

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Deep Dive Regulation
• Take 3 deep breaths in a comfortable sitting position.
• Notice five things around you. What do you see?
• Notice five sounds. What do you hear?
• Notice your heart. How do you feel?

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The TriMetrix EQ Assessment

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D
IS
C Urgent
Pioneering
Innovative
Driven
Likes challenge
Demanding
Quick to anger
Careful
Objective, clear
High standards
Good analyst
Detailed
Picky
Aloof
Fearful
Optimistic
Motivator
Team Player
Problem solver
Emotionally needy
Inattentive
Trusting
Poor with
details
Steady and sincere
Patient
Empathetic
Logical
Service-oriented
Apathetic under stress
Passive
Resists change
Your Behavioral Strengths: DISC

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Choose to
adapt
temporarily
rather than
permanently
pretend to be
what you are
not
Interacting with Other Styles

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Utilitarian Every investment I make will have a greater return in
time and/or resources
Aesthetic I will enjoy and experience the beauty around me &
allow it to mold me into all I can be
Social I will Invest self in time and resources in helping
others to achieve their potential
Individualistic I want to advance to the highest position in life & gain
the greatest power
Theoretical I will use my cognitive ability to understand, discover &
systemize the truth
Traditional I will pursue the highest meaning in life
Values Impact Our Attitude

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Deep Dive Regulation
• Think of something that causes you frustration. Notice what happens to
your body. Notice your posture, breathing and tightness.
• Look at the picture and study the details of it.
• Return to your stressful thoughts.
• Return to the picture and notice even more detail about it.

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Protect and
Defend /
Be Right
Take action and learn
Find solutions
Accept ownership
Acknowledge situation
Make it happen.
This can work.
It starts with me.
I’m a piece of the puzzle.
Wait n’ hope
Blame self
Blame others
Denial
Somebody should do something.
It’s my fault (guilt).
It’s their fault.
This has nothing.
to do with me.
Learn and
Grow /
Empowerment
0
+10
-10
Accountability Model: Your Choice

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How Do You Define
Your Leadership Purpose?
I _______________, _______________, and _______________
___________________________________________________.
verb verb verb
noun

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A miracle will occur tonight while you sleep and when you wake
will have the PERFECT LIFE. What does it look like?

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