Networking, Mentoring, and Education for Consultants and Solo Professionals
Using Emotional Intelligence to Manage Difficult Clients
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the foundation for effective communication, collaboration and developing and sustaining relationships with your clients.
The ability to understand and control one’s own emotions, and to understand other people’s emotions, enables for improvements in how we interact with our clients and supports managing clients who may be more difficult to work with and/or who get upset easily.
EI is about interpersonal savvy. It is about relating well to all types of individuals, establishing relationships and building rapport to achieve goals, and using diplomacy and tact to ensure a mutually respective and productive working relationship.
In this interactive session, Gina Abudi will share the four key areas of emotional intelligence. Learning goals in this session include:
Participants will receive a mini EI self-assessment to complete prior to the workshop to gain a better understanding of strengths in EI.
There's no charge for this workshop.
About Our Speaker:
Gina Abudi, is President of Abudi Consulting Group, LLC, a woman-owned business. She utilizes her nearly 40 years of consulting, coaching and executive leadership experience to work closely with executives and Boards of Directors of mid- to large global organizations to lead and support strategic, transformational change initiatives.
Her work is focused on supporting employees to adopt change by coaching leaders on change, providing change management consulting services, and offering training programs related to leading and championing/supporting change.
Gina is the co-author of Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects: Six Steps to Success, J Ross Publishing, 2017, which she wrote in collaboration with her husband, Yusuf Abudi; and the author of Implementing Positive Organizational Change: A Strategic Project Management Approach, J. Ross Publishing, 2017. She is working on her 4th book, her 2nd on the topic of change management, The Profit Maximizing Culture: A Strategic Guide to Building your Organization’s Change Capabilities. (Expected in 2026.)
Gina is an adjunct faculty member at Clark University where she teaches in their Executive MBA program.
Come to our virtual meetup on Friday, June 13th to network with your fellow consultants and solo professionals. You'll get a chance to make new connections and learn from your colleagues.
We'll be on a video call from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
This meetup is sponsored by the Society of Professional Consultants (SPC) and is open to members and non-members.
There's no registration fee to attend. We're limiting the meetup to 25 people so please register and save your spot. We hope you can join us!
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