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The following is a selection of articles written by members of the Collaborative Growth team. All materials have a copyright held by Collaborative Growth, LLC. Contact us for permission to quote, reprints or comments.
Emotionally Intelligent Team
- Emotional & Social Well-Being Supports Employee Engagement
The good news about our 2.0 world is organizations are finally getting it – that is they are recognizing that if they place their top value on building emotional and social well being for their employees and teams, they will gain the business and financial values of increased and sustainable productivity, better decisions, loyalty and best of all trust among their workforce. Ok, they get it, but how do they DO it? It isn’t hard, yet it does require intentional commitment and follow through. Fortunately there is a road map, the powerful tools of the EQi 2.0® for individuals and the TESI® for teams are well researched assessments designed to measure and provide the path to building emotional and social well-being. These provide the data to implement a specific plan of action for individuals and teams.Go to article...
- Can Virtual Teams Demonstrate Emotional & Social Intelligence?
When Manuel cut off Maria and implied her research was simplistic during the recent team webinar, most of the other team members checked out and started doing email. Maria wiped a tear away and swore to herself that she wouldn’t risk participating again. The Team Leader, who is a top notch engineer and is signed up for his first management training class next month, said nothing. This interaction cost the team and the organization in terms of engagement, trust, and willingness to take risks with one another, yet nothing may ever be done about it.Go to article...
- Acting with Collaborative Intelligence: Your 10 Step Guide
Collaboration is a result of people working together to reach a mutual answer to a challenge or opportunity. As our world becomes more integrated and boundaries become more blurred the need and desire to collaborate is heightened. We see this on the internet, such as with Wikipedia, in organizations of all sizes and shapes, such as the better efforts at the United Nations and in performance goals for individuals and leaders, such as the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ’s) that leaders in the federal senior executive service are to meet. Go to article...
- Leadership Development: The Four Corners of Empathetic Assertiveness
Successful leaders exhibit skills that may look natural and easy yet are truly the result of paying close attention and being responsive to the whole environment. To do so, they learn to be emotionally literate and employ a complex set of skills in ways that may seem innate though in fact are the result of a willingness to work, learn and improve. Go to article...
- Emotional Sustainability Practices
To develop the truly effective solutions that today’s complex world demands, our emotional strength and resourcefulness has to be sustainable! Because right now as we are just about to resolve the current crisis, new problems are germinating, others are sprouting up and some tricky challenge has matured to the point it is just about to tap us on the shoulder and insist, “What about me??”Go to article...
- Building Emotional Sustainability
The crisis conditions we see in the planetary environment today are a direct reflection of the crisis conditions we find in the workplace. No oil is spilled, no dangerous levels of carbon dioxide are generated, no toxic chemicals are manufactured, no resources are extracted, no investment vehicles are designed except as the result of people working together to get as much value from their efforts as possible. Here’s the problem: our determination of what is valuable has been distorted by our perception of lack and the fear that this occasions in us at the deepest unconscious levels. The answer is embedded in using all our forms of intelligence. One of the most powerful is emotional and social intelligence.Go to article...
- Managers & Motivation
Colorado’s new Governor, John Hickenlooper, states that “moods are viral” and a good one “allows people to put down their defenses.” He’s right! Managers and supervisors have tremendous influence on the mood in the workplace. Here’s a way to take your team’s temperature.Go to article...
- Mining for Social Intelligence
Chi! Chi! Chi! Le! Le! Le!! Inspiration, open heart, courage, hope. Countless emotional terms are associated with the October 14th, 2010 rescue of the 33 Chilean miners who have a lot to teach us about emotional intelligence. Let us reflect on the many emotions and experiences as guides into our own self-awareness. While the 33 miners survived and learned to thrive without most that we take for granted, we’ve been above ground with the sun, water, wind, earth, loved ones, and easy access to great varieties of daily experience. How happy have you been during that time? How grateful? We invite you to inquire personally by asking how well you’ve lived during those 69 days. Go to article...
- Top 10 Reasons for Playing
Play has been described as unplanned behavior, in other words activity that emerges and evolves spontaneously from within its own context. It occurs in a climate that facilitates creativity and innovation. Young children accomplish the majority of their most critical early learning through play. But guess what, adults learn best in the same sort of attitude — relaxed curiosity. Go to article...
- Teambuilding with EI Competencies
What makes a group of people want to work together as a team? What makes a team want to do their very best work? When people feel safe, supported, and free to make a valuable contribution that will be recognized, they consistently perform at their best. In this article we explore how to build the emotional intelligence competencies necessary to create these conditions. Go to article...
- Team Leaders Motivate Your Teams!
Leading emotionally intelligent teams is a tough job. Developing your skill is worth it as
teams strong in EI are productive, creative and loyal to their organization. Building team
motivation is a key strategy for success and it’s a skill team leaders can always
enhance by implementing the 7 motivation actions. Go to article...
- Take Your Team to the Oscars
- 2010: The Year of the Team - Best Practices for Dynamic Teamwork
- Build Collaborative Intelligence with Focused Team Engagement
- How To Lead Teams: The Relationship Between Team Skills and Human Development
- Leading the Way to Emotionally Intelligent Teams
- Change, Yes You Can Motivate Your Team
- Team Conflict – Opportunity or Loss?
- 10 Steps to Maintain Your Emotional Well-Being
- From the Problem (5 Dysfunctions) To the ANSWER (TESI®)
- High Productivity Results from Strong Team Identity
- Is Your Team Fun or Effective?
- Emotional Awareness Builds Team Persistence
- Collaborative Intelligence™ For You and Your Team!
- Creating Successful Teams with Emotional Intelligence - HCI White paper
- Collaborative Growth’s Team Model Builds Trust
Emotional Intelligence
Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
The following 5 articles address each of the 5 dysfunctions teams often exhibit as identified by Patrick Lencioni and provide strategies for overcoming those dysfunctions.
Conflict Resolution
The 2% Solution
Best Practices
Other Articles
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