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Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence

QAspire

Tuning into team emotions, fostering productive work relationships, building trust, and building a conducive environment within the team is the constant work of leadership. 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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This Strategic Pivot to Address COVID Will Help Your Business Thrive

Lead Change Blog

Being deprived of basic humans needs that we naturally get from work, such as sense of connection, tribe, meaning, and purpose. Subpar skills in virtual communication and collaboration.

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Featured Leading Voice: Mary Schaefer

Lead Change Blog

in Human Resource Management from the University of Charleston. Mary has always been fascinated by the human dynamic at work. Human relationships, motivation, and human needs like appreciation, belonging and making a meaningful contribution have been high on her list. Mary has a B.S.

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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead With Emotional Intelligence Authors Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee use their decades of business and leadership experience to discuss the importance of connecting through emotional intelligence in, "Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence."

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

It speaks to a deeper human need for dignity and acceptance, and the ways we grant dignity to one another. He showed humility and emotional intelligence when dealing with an emotionally delicate situation. Face represents one’s self esteem, self-worth, identity, reputation, status, pride, and dignity.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Empathy is a core component of emotional intelligence. Motivational architects work by addressing four fundamental human needs: Safety, Energy, Purpose, and Ownership. If these needs are met, people can thrive in that culture. Some people are in our empathy circle, others are excluded. What makes the difference?

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Three Leadership Traits that Never Go Out of Style

Harvard Business Review

Do you treat your team members as human beings, and not just as workers? Emotional intelligence is widely recognized as a leadership quality, but being transparent about your emotions isn't. We are human beings, and knowing that our bosses care for us is a fundamental human need.