Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence

The emotion of the team is a sum-total of emotions and feelings that members of the team experience. Left unnoticed, unexpressed, and unattended, these emotions can grow toxic to harm relationships or grossly undermine team’s potential.

Leaders have a choice of either noticing those emotions intentionally and intervening constructively when needed or just ignore the emotions to focus only on the outcomes and the process.

Tuning into team emotions, fostering productive work relationships, building trust, and building a conducive environment within the team is the constant work of leadership.

In the new edition of their book titled “Team Emotional Intelligence 2.0”, Dr. Jean Greaves and Evan Watkins have a rich conversation on team EQ offering stories, practices, and strategies for lifting individual emotional intelligence skills to the group level.

It is easy to collaborate within and across teams, feel a sense of belonging, share your best practices and challenge each other constructively when the collective emotion of the team is net positive.

I had the opportunity to read the book and it is a treasure of wisdom on building high-performance teams through the power of team EQ. The book has useful strategies for leaders at all levels from individual contributors to executive leaders.

Here is a high-level summary of the context as well as four skill areas of team emotional intelligence in form of sketchnote.

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