ECCS Family Leadership Training
The Center for Family Involvement (CFI) at the Partnership for People with Disabilities offers training to help people with personal experience (like birthing people and parents of young children) build leadership skills for making positive changes in early care and education systems. These training materials were tested with over 75 families involved with the CFI and Ready Region Family Councils. They focus on understanding yourself, managing conversations, handling conflict effectively, and staying energized while working toward system improvements.
Module 1: Leadership Strengths and Emotional Intelligence
This video provides an overview of the number one leadership behavior – being emotionally intelligent. Emotional intelligence is about being aware of how emotions influence actions and finding healthy ways to respond in different situations. In other words, emotional intelligence is the ability to understand how your behaviors affect others and how their behaviors affect you, and to use that understanding to make better decisions and build stronger relationships. This video also highlights the components of what it means when a committee or team makes everyone feels valued and motivated to contribute, making the group stronger and more successful.
Take a moment to use the links and attached Assessments before you watch the video.
Resources: (these resources are meant to get you started, but are not necessarily endorsed by VCU)
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- Truity Emotional Intelligence Test (free unless you want the customized report that costs approximately $12.00)
- Innovation Style and Leadership Strengths Assessment (free)
Module 2: Intercultural Communication Conflict Styles
This video focuses on identifying our identities and being respectful of other people’s identities and experiences. Embedded in this video is also reflection on a person’s intercultural communication and conflict style. Intercultural communication and conflict is important because it highlights differences in values, beliefs, and communication styles between people from diverse backgrounds. Resolving misunderstandings in group or committee conversations – or conflicts – constructively can build trust, improve communication, and lead a committee, group or team to innovative ideas and solutions.
Resources: (these resources are meant to get you started in learning more about the topic, but are not necessarily endorsed by VCU)
- Embracing Cultural Humility (free)
- Intercultural Conflict Style Assessment (cost approximately $22.00)
- Conflict Style Quiz (free – but does not necessarily focus on cultural differences)