Dale Choquette: Emotional Intelligence
Leadership keynote speaker, team-building expert, and creator of The Marathon Principle Dale Choquette helps organizations strengthen communication, collaboration, and resilience for lasting success.
Quick Facts:
- Creator of The Marathon Principle
- Leadership keynote speaker and team-building facilitator
- Completed nine marathons, using endurance sports as a leadership framework
- More than 20 years of corporate leadership experience
- Formats:
Keynote Speaker | Leadership Expert
- Audiences:
Executives, managers, leadership teams, healthcare organizations, corporate professionals, associations, nonprofit organizations, and teams seeking stronger collaboration and communication.
- Outcomes:
- Improve communication by understanding different personality and behavioral styles.
- Strengthen teamwork, trust, and collaboration across the organization.
- Build resilience and maintain momentum toward long-term organizational goals.
- Travels from: Vancouver, BC
- **Fee range: $5,001 - $10,000
Keynote Topics
Emotional Intelligence and Your Team
Employees need superior technical abilities; however, this is only one half of the equation needed to increase the success of your organization.
Management and leaders must focus on the skills necessary to work with others and get the best results from their teams. Real leadership is about inspiring, motivating and igniting passion in others.
You can do this by applying emotional intelligence. The good news is that is can be learned from Dale Choquette.
Tuning into and focusing on emotions in the workplace is a strong component in effectively managing in today’s workplace. It’s people, not things that get results.
In this interactive Dale Choquette keynote you will:
- Learn why emotional intelligence is critical to leadership
- Learn about the 5 scales in the EQ-i 2.0
- Determine how the 15 competencies impact workplace effectiveness
What’s My Team’s DNA?
The golden rule says “treat others the way you want to be treated”.
However, it’s not necessarily the best practice when it comes to communication styles as it assumes everyone is just like you.
Do you often wonder why you can say something to one person, and it’s taken the way you meant it.
Then you say that same thing to another person, it’s taken the wrong way? The communication styles of the people you engage with will impact the way you lead, interact with your team, and how you collaborate with others.
In this fun and interactive keynote, you will identify your communication style and explore tools and techniques to allow you to better leverage your style. You will also be able to identify your team members’ communication styles.
Here’s what Dale Choquette will cover:
- Identify the 4 basic communication styles
- Discover what each team member brings to the table
- Learn to flex your communication style
- Gain the ability to build stronger connections
Talent Short Bio
Dale Choquette is a leadership keynote speaker, team-building facilitator, and workplace communication expert who helps organizations develop stronger leaders, improve collaboration, and build high-performing teams. As the creator of The Marathon Principle, Dale uses the powerful metaphor of marathon running to demonstrate how commitment, resilience, adaptability, and teamwork are essential for achieving long-term organizational success.
After spending more than 20 years in the corporate world, including 16 years as a Certified Professional Purchaser in the pharmaceutical industry, Dale gained firsthand experience navigating organizational change, cross-functional collaboration, and team dynamics. Her corporate background, combined with her experience completing nine marathons, provides a unique perspective on overcoming challenges, sustaining momentum, and achieving ambitious goals.
Dale’s presentations focus on helping individuals understand different personality styles, improve communication, manage conflict constructively, and develop stronger workplace relationships. She believes that organizations perform at their highest level when people understand one another, communicate with intention, and work toward a shared vision.
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