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Emotional Intelligence for Teams -Tip of the Day EQ Edition

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Emotional Intelligence for Teams October is Emotional Intelligence Awareness! Employees here at TalentSmartEQ are delighted there is a whole month dedicated to celebrating the power of EQ. When most people think of emotional intelligence, they think of the skills that individuals use to be effective. Individual EQ is absolutely foundational, but TalentSmart is also passionate […]

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Psychological safety at work

Emotional Intelligence Tip of the Day: Psychological Safety

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As mentioned in our last blog article, psychological safety is “a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes, and that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking” (Amy Edmondson). One deceptively simple way to impact psychological safety is to include people – invite them

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Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Why Emotional Intelligence Is the Key to Psychological Safety

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We’ve all been traumatized by the pandemic. So says Adria Horn, a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve and an army veteran who served five tours of duty overseas between 2003 and 2010, in a recent article by McKinsey. She noted that what we are experiencing—anxiety, depression, a search for meaning—are identical to what

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Kids can teach us emotional intelligence lessons about teamwork

The Fundamental Team Lessons We Can Learn From Kids

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The success of a goal, a strategy or a project usually relies on the performance and collaboration of a team. However, the process of learning to work and learn together can be extremely challenging. Hard conversations, conflict, competing priorities, and different approaches to problem-solving can all surface emotions and feelings that need managing. Over the

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