The Emotionally Intelligent Team

From a pioneer of "team emotional intelligence" comes a practical guide for building high-performing teams.

Great teams can sometimes feel like magic. So much so that it can be hard to pin down why they work so well. But such dynamics are explainable-and replicable. And at their heart is emotional intelligence.

While much has been written about the power of emotional intelligence at the individual level, little has been said about the benefits of this concept for groups. And it's not as simple as putting a number of emotionally intelligent people together and expecting them to work cohesively. Instead, leaders need to build a team culture around agreed-upon norms and habits.

In this book, social and organizational psychologist and professor Vanessa Urch Druskat combines thirty years of research and team development to present a model for building and leading emotionally intelligent teams. She offers practical advice on how to build a team where members:

• Help one another succeed through understanding, caring, and feedback
• Learn and advance together by reviewing team processes, supporting personal expression, building optimism, and solving problems proactively
• Engage stakeholders by building an understanding of the team's impact and developing external relationships

In reading The Emotionally Intelligent Team, leaders and aspiring leaders alike will learn how to develop a strong team culture that motivates and sustains successful collaboration and high performance.

Autorentext

Vanessa Urch Druskat is an associate professor of organizational behavior at the University of New Hampshire. A social psychologist, she has spent thirty years researching team collaboration and performance. Her award-winning research investigating differences between the norms and habits of high-performing and average teams led her to pioneer (with S. Wolff) the concept of team emotional intelligence. Druskat consults globally with some of the world's most respected organizations.

Klappentext

"Great teams can sometimes feel like magic. It's hard to pin down just why they work so well. But what seems like magic is explainable, and replicable. It starts with team culture. Much has been written about the power of emotional intelligence at the individual level, but little has been said about the benefits of this concept for groups. In this book, applied social and organizational psychologist and professor Vanessa Urch Druskat combines thirty years of research and team development to present a model for building and leading emotionally intelligent teams. She offers practical advice on how to: Create a solid foundation of team norms and behaviors; understand how team members support one another to reduce toxic conflict, demonstrate caring, and build a sense of belonging; support expression, build optimism, and solve problems proactively; and increase team trust, psychological safety, and innovation. By reading The Emotionally Intelligent Team, leaders and aspiring leaders alike will learn how to develop a strong team culture that motivates and sustains improved team collaboration and performance"--

Zusammenfassung

The missing link between teams and performance: emotional intelligence.

Great teams can sometimes feel like magic. It's hard to pin down just why they work so well. But what seems like magic is explainable, and replicable. It starts with team culture.

Much has been written about the power of emotional intelligence at the individual level, but little has been said about the benefits of this concept for groups. In this book, applied social psychologist and professor Vanessa Urch Druskat draws on thirty years of research on team development to present a model for building and leading emotionally intelligent teams. She offers practical advice on how to:

• Create a solid team foundation that meets a team's basic structural needs
• Work with a team to build nine norms that develop an emotionally intelligent team culture
• Support team-member sense of belonging
• Increase team trust, psychological safety, and team identity

By reading The Emotionally Intelligent Team, leaders and aspiring leaders alike will learn how to develop a strong team culture that motivates and sustains improved team collaboration and performance.