Emotional Intelligence in Action

Coaching for a new kind of win

At eiFOCUS®, our work is based on research that shows that emotional intelligence can positively shape our relationships and our outcomes – on the playing fields, at school, at work and in life.

“Sport can promote social inclusion, build trust and foster a culture of peace between groups in conflict. It is also a powerful platform to empower women and girls on and off the field of play.”

- Marisol Casado, President of the International Triathlon Union

The SWEAT® Training Model

Elements of our training model

  • eiBoosters are essential aspects of your inner work on emotional intelligence. These eiBoosters are lifestyle choices that help you be at your emotional best so that you can be there for your players. Just as consistent strength training and aerobic conditioning are key for athletic fitness, consistent training with eiBoosters is key for emotional intelligence fitness. We encourage you to incorporate these eiBoosters into your everyday trainings and routines in order to take the twelve elements of emotional intelligence to another level.

  • The inner work enables coaches to heighten their emotional awareness and maintain their composure under stress. The inner work training focuses on skills that help you understand what you’re feeling and how emotions affect your behavior.

  • Once you have strengthened the inner work, you will be ready to focus on the outer work.  These are the skills necessary for understanding what others, like your athletes, are feeling and how to use that knowledge for effective team leadership. 

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With your team

In-Person Trainings

  • eiFOCUS attendee at workshop

    In Person Coach Training

    Bring eiFOCUS® to your organization or join us at an in person training at the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center. Start strengthening your emotional intelligence skills.

  • eiFOCUS Keynote speaker

    Keynote

    eiFOCUS® will come to your next event and speak on emotional intelligence topics relevant to you and your organization.

  • eiFOCUS multi-session

    Multi-session

    We will work with the coaches and their athletes as a team, starting in the preseason and continuing throughout your season. Please reach out to us so that we can learn more about your organization and put a customized plan together.

Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center

eiFOCUS® Coach Training

We are excited to announce our Spring 2023 coach training at the inspiring Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center, near San Diego CA. Come join us May 3 - May 5, 2023 for our eiFOCUS® Coach Training where you will learn the skills of emotional intelligence so your female athletes thrive in their sport and in their lives. You will also have the opportunity meet and learn from other coaches across all sports.

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Playbook

Order a copy of our training book, SWEAT, Success With Empathy and Trust. Read, go out and put your new learning into action, and then journal your thoughts and reflections right onto the pages of the book. For individual orders, please order through Amazon. Purchase the books for all the coaches in your organization.

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SWEAT Book Reviews

  • “Sweat speaks to the benefits of transformational coaching, parenting and leadership. Thankfully, the results of “dictating” change through an authoritative style of leadership are being eclipsed by the benefits that come from leaders who “motivate” change in these whom they lead.”

    Valorie Kondos Field, UCLA Women’s Gymnastics Coach-29 years, 7x NCAA Champion, UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame, PAC12 Coach of the Century

  • “Beautiful things emerge when an athlete feels that they are cared about as an entire person by their leaders. They trust you, they believe in you, their own self-confidence builds, they feel supported, and in turn they are capable of accomplishing amazing results.”

    Tammy McGregor, USA Artistic Swimming: Olympic Gold Medalist-1996; Olympian-2000; Olympic Coach-2004, 2008, 2012. Current Coach to USA National Team and Walnut Creek Aquanuts.

  • “With emotional intelligence training, I learned to be grateful, present, and positive. As a result, our team became so close and so tight. We achieved for more than we thought was possible. In all the 40 years that I have coached, this has been the most rewarding.”

    Maureen O’Toole Purcell, USA Women’s Water Polo Olympic Silver Medalist, USA Water Polo Coach, Australian National League Team Coach

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eiFOCUS online program

$40 per session

Online

This online learning is for all coaches.  You will go through all the elements of our training model, SWEAT, at your own speed.  Ideally, you will learn a new skill each week, practice the skill each day of that week, and reflect on what you are learning.  It is best to have a journal to write in that accompanies this learning. 

Emotional Intelligence in Action

The Research

In the 1990s, Dr. Daniel Goleman first introduced emotional intelligence as being a key ingredient to success in his book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ. In later years, Dr. Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis investigated and researched hundreds of leaders in organizations and found that while they all had some level of technical abilities, education, and intelligence, there was a sub-group known as “peak performers.”

Goleman and Boyatzis wanted to know: What was it about these exceptional leaders that made them so inspiring and motivating? Why did everyone seem to want to work for them? What made them so special and effective? What the researchers found was that emotional intelligence was the one trait that separated the peak performers from everyone else. The twelve elements in the SWEAT model are adapted from Dr. Goleman’s twelve “competencies of emotional intelligence.”