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The skill that makes every other skill land.

Emotional Intelligence — self-awareness, self-management, empathy and relationship management, built on Goleman's four clusters, in one working planner. The human operating system that makes your check-ins, feedback and change actually work with people.

£27
Introductory price
Buy now · £27 Interactive & printable · saves as you type
✨ Launch offer — 20% off with code LAUNCH20
You'll be able to
  • prepare difficult conversations with SBI-E before you're in them
  • build a personal pause that holds under pressure
  • read your team — and resistance — accurately instead of reactively
  • grow all four Goleman clusters on a 30/60/90 plan
Why it exists

You can have the right plan and still lose the people.

Most leadership failures aren't strategy failures — they're the difficult conversation avoided, the resistance mistaken for defiance, the good idea that never surfaced because it wasn't safe to say. Emotional intelligence is the layer underneath the systems. This is where you build it, deliberately.

What's Inside

The four clusters, made practical

An honest baseline

Rate yourself across all four Goleman clusters and name the one to develop first. The low scores are the useful ones — this is a mirror, not a test.

Self-awareness, logged

A trigger-and-response log, plus strengths, blind spots and the values that explain your strongest reactions.

Self-management under pressure

Build your own pause — early warning signs, your pause move, and the question that gets you to a better response.

Empathy & psychological safety

An empathy map for the person who matters right now, and a safety builder — the direct link to ideas surfacing and improvement flowing.

Difficult conversations, planned

The SBI-E framework — Situation, Behaviour, Impact, Emotion — to prepare the conversation you've been avoiding, plus coaching questions for developing others.

Leading through change

Read resistance as data, respond to it with EI, and run a team pulse — tying straight into Managing Change and Continuous Improvement.

See inside

The real tool, not a mockup

The Model tab — Goleman's four clusters, made practical
The Model tab — Goleman's four clusters, made practical · every planner has this level of built-in teaching
Who it's for

Built for the person others answer to

Team & department leads

Carrying responsibility for people as well as numbers, and wanting to lead both well.

Managers stepping up

Moving into bigger roles where influence matters more than authority, and trust is the currency.

Founders & operators

Building a culture where people tell the truth, stay engaged, and don't quietly check out.

How They Work

Work it your way

Interactive

The working tool

Opens in your browser, saves as you type. Seven working views — baseline, self-awareness, self-management, empathy, relationships, leading with EI, and a habits and development plan. Nothing to install.

Printable

The workbook

A print-and-fill PDF version for reflective work away from the screen, or coaching someone else through it.

The offer
£27
Introductory price
  • The interactive planner — all seven views
  • The printable PDF workbook
  • Goleman's four clusters, made practical
  • SBI-E difficult conversations and empathy mapping
  • Free updates as it improves
Buy now · £27
✨ Launch offer — 20% off with code LAUNCH20
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