If you want to increase your emotional intelligence, try these 5 tips for improving team performance.
What most people want to know is how does emotional intelligence make people more successful, and more to the point, how can you raise the EQ of yourself or your team. There are a lot of things you can do to improve how you motivate and manage your team. My new blog on LinkedIn explores 5 simple techniques for becoming more effective as a leader using emotional intelligence.
We now have over five decades of research showing that people with high emotional intelligence account for up to 90% of high performing leaders. And I see it daily in my work. When my clients improve their emotional intelligence, they get results. They learn how to resolve conflicts and motivate people to focus and perform. There is no one way to get everyone to perform, or to resolve every conflict. These are deeply human behaviors that you need emotional intelligence–a fancy term for understanding how people work–to improve.
In this post (see link below), you will learn a powerful and simple exercise to raise your emotional self-awareness, the skill that predicts high performance according to research by Korn Ferry.
In addition, you’ll find 5 tips for better leadership that you can start practicing now. These are exercises to increase trust and psychological safety, two underlying conditions for better team productivity. I encourage my clients to start small when they are building their emotional intelligence skills. Try one of these for two weeks, and see if it makes a difference. If you start to see more focus and effort in your team, try another one.
5 Ways to Better Leadership with Emotional Intelligence
We all naturally have the ability to build emotional intelligence on our own. Feel free to let me know how it’s going and send me questions at Lisa@lisadfoster.com.