About Optamize
Hi and thanks for considering our service.
It is the mission of Optamize to promote and develop emotional intelligence (EQ). Optamize offers a modular programme to develop and practice your emotional intelligence skills over time with about ten minutes of regular (daily or weekly) learning and practice. The programme is designed as 60 units divided into 12 modules.
Whoever you are, short regular sessions over an extended period is better to switch on EQ than a blitz to go through all material in one go. That's just how the human subconscious emotional mind works. You cannot cheat your own mind by racing. You'll get nothing out of that; and because we are authentic in our mission, we would encourage you not to use our service if you want to 'race' through it or tick a box to say you did it to fulfill a management target. The whole programme requires about 175 hours spread out.
EQ is becoming more and more important in today's information age and interconnected world. People get desperate for the human touch. Those individuals and organisations that can weave the human touch into their work are winning.
Most other EQ training courses consist of only reading materials and talks and theory, perhaps with a few practical and role play exercises on 'training days'. That alone will not successfully switch on and build your EQ skills for day to day life. It's crucial to put those emotion management skills into practice everyday but this can be scary because we are talking about learning new ways of managing real people's emotions on real jobs in real life, including your own. If you make a mistake in that scenario you could muck up a relationship which can be costly. So, how to practice learning these new skills for real? The answer is Optamize.
In addition to all the theory, our programme uniquely creates a 'safe space' in which people can begin to explore different ways of acknowledging and managing real emotions on real people without causing upset to others. That's our secret magic sauce.
The founder and author of Optamize is a former NHS doctor who foresaw the direction things were going with NHS management and targets culture and their impact on staff with knock on impact on patients. Indeed this was his original primary motivation to create this programme.
Our team have been offering services for the development of emotional intelligence for 15 years in the UK and USA. We have served individuals, councils, schools, universities, medical and financial institutions.
Our programme has been accredited as a preferred provider by the Society of Human Resources Management since 2015.
Our programme can be delivered to individuals, pairs, groups, teams and whole departments. It can be tailored for solo or group learning and combinations of the two. The course can be delivered by app and online communication technology and in person.
Our prices depend on how the course is structured for you.
Least expensive is a simple login to go through our accredited learning modules online as app-based distance learning, which includes the safe space for practical learning offline. (Ask us how!)
Premium is a tailored and structured programme with maximum in-person facilitation by our team.
Please get in touch. We'd love to learn of your needs and find the right programme for you.