This discussion guide is focused on the five team dynamics Google found to be important for team effectiveness. The guide can help teams identify areas where they might want to improve and elicit ideas of how to do that.
Practical emotional intelligence starts with observing how you feel and behave to create awareness. This then allows you to take responsibility for both your feelings and behaviour to create a more positive impact on all areas of your life. From here you are then able to practice responding rather than reacting which assists in practicing empathy with yourself and others.
The second area of the KNOW YOURSELF model is CHOOSE YOURSELF. This involves self-management and being more intentional. Doing what you mean to do instead of reacting on autopilot. These competencies allow you to proactively respond. They provide you with the ‘how’, showing you how to take action, how to influence and how to operationalize these concepts.
The awareness that EQ is an important job skill, in some cases even surpassing technical ability, has been growing in recent years. Harvey Deutschendorf gives us seven of the top reasons why highly EQ candidates are so valuable.
