The Sailboat Mission
We coach people to develop their emotional intelligence, to manage negative emotions more effectively, to achieve more positive results, and to improve their communication skills.
There are so many companies struggling right now as a result of the change and uncertainty brought about by remote, virtual, hybrid and modern working practices. Resilience and team cohesion are disintegrating as people are divided, working in isolation and losing trust and rapport with their colleagues. Decision-making and motivation are being affected as team members are losing their sense of purpose, and direction, and people are afraid of making mistakes. Job dissatisfaction and employees voluntarily quitting their jobs is at an all time high. People are no longer competing for jobs, companies are competing for people, and are under stress to retain talent.
We set up the Sailboat Navigation System to help businesses understand the impact of emotional intelligence and culture on performance. Our mission is to help leaders and managers recognise, process, and channel thoughts and emotions to help solve modern workplace issues and get their people connecting and working together better.
Sailboat Navigation
The Sailboat Navigation System is based on positive psychology and cognitive behavioural techniques. It is an exploration of thinking patterns and the effect they have on our emotions and behaviour. It is designed to help train the mind to be fitter to enable us to develop more efficient coping strategies and solutions. In the same way that our bodies need the right fuel and exercise for optimum performance, our thoughts, emotions and beliefs also need to be trained, in order for us to operate effectively.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence (E.Q.) is the ability to identify, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Most companies pay little attention to how employees are or should be ‘feeling’. They don’t realise how central emotions are to building the right culture, and often it’s not managed at all. Companies suffer as a result. Establishing effective team culture is crucial… particularly when there isn’t a building at the heart of it.
Business Emotional Intelligence is a practical, work-based approach to emotions that help individuals and teams understand why people behave the way they do and how to maximise their engagement with, and performance at, work.
Benefits of Emotional Intelligence:
- Improved teamwork and collaboration: By understanding and responding to colleagues’ emotions, teams can work together more effectively.
- Stronger leadership: Leaders with high emotional intelligence can inspire and motivate their team, fostering a positive work environment.
- Better decision-making: Considering the emotional impact of decisions can lead to more well-rounded and thoughtful choices.
- Reduced conflict: The ability to identify and address underlying emotions can help prevent conflicts from escalating.
- Increased employee engagement and satisfaction: Feeling understood and valued by their manager can lead to higher job satisfaction and motivation.
- Reduction in churn: Helping you to keep the great people that you have invested in.
Business is about getting results… Good results come from happy and motivated people.
WHO IS BUSINESS NAVIGATION FOR?
Managers who are witnessing an erosion of trust amongst colleagues and team members as they find it hard to sustain relationships remotely, virtually or in a hybrid setting.
Managers who are noticing a decline in company culture because there is no longer a building at the heart of it.
Managers who are having to deal with unravelling team cohesion due to differences in preferred ways of working and handling change.
Managers who are finding it challenging to deal with emotions that are emerging, or suppressed, in the work place.
Managers who are experiencing issues with team dynamics, confidence, fear, uncertainty, insecurity and staff morale… particularly after TUPE transfers.
Managers who are having to form working relationships with people they’ve never even met in person.
Services
1-2-1 Coaching
Sailboat offer a bespoke coaching plan to help you to identify and resolve emotional issues at work. Experienced managers will already understand the value of coaching, but may have focussed more on skills and career coaching, or perhaps have only been offered ‘wellbeing’ and ‘one-size-fits-all’ resources that fail to give real insight or action plans to help a team that is sliding off the peak of its full potential. Sailboat is both performance and solution focused. With greater insight into the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviours, you are better placed to tackle challenges in the modern workplace.
Sailboat Business Navigation Course
“The Business of Emotions, Thoughts and Behaviours in the Modern Workplace”
This is an 8 week online coaching programme with a hybrid option (online with additional 1-2-1 support) for team leaders and managers. It is a step by step navigation system to help solve various workplace issues that may have evolved due to remote and hybrid working practices and weakened work relationships. It helps you and your team build emotional intelligence skills, strengths, motivation and cohesion and shows you how to lead your team members to perform better, not just feel better.
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Show him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”
– PROVERB
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