As organizations shift to depend more on team-based structures,
the pressure to develop high-performing teams is more critical than ever. In
the modern work environment, teams are expected to embrace change, navigate
complexity, and collaborate well under pressure ―all while delivering
exceptional results and forming productive relationships.
While it is crucial to have talented, bright people within a
team, there is a dynamic that is even more essential to overall team
effectiveness. This dynamic is ?Team Emotional Intelligence? (Team EQ). While
most people are familiar with emotional intelligence (EQ) when it comes to
individuals, the power of how EQ relates to the entire team has not been
well-understood until now.
Insights from the latest research on team emotional intelligence
and TalentSmartEQ's research trends from working with over 200 teams (with
2000+ team members) combine to bring EQ know-how to the team level. Team
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers practical strategies and showcases how an
emotionally intelligent team is far more than the sum of its parts. This book
focuses on the four key skill areas of Team EQ: Team Emotion Awareness, Team
Emotion Management, Internal Team Relationships, and External Team
Relationships, and it delivers 55 strategies and a step-by-step process for
increasing team EQ skills so team leaders and anyone who's a member of a team
can achieve peak performance and reach their goals.
Dr. Greaves, Evan Watkins, and
their contributing team of experts begin with a life and death story of team
failure that illustrates how emotions can drive team decisions and lead to
disaster. They share a proven approach to helping teams understand Team EQ
skills, build these skills into strengths, and use them to sustain positive
momentum and achieve peak performance. Strategies for remote and hybrid teams
working virtually offer targeted approaches to bonding, communicating, tough
conversations, and decision making as modern workplaces transform. Like she did
with the best-selling Emotional Intelligence 2.0 (at 2 million copies sold and
counting), Dr. Greaves and her team take complex concepts and translate them
into easy-to-understand skills that can be used immediately and developed
further over time. As organizations increasingly rely on getting work done
through teams, the understanding and development of team EQ skills is more
relevant and impactful than ever.
