Team Emotional Intelligence 2.0: The Four Essential Skills of High Performing Teams

As organizations shift to depend more on team-basedstructures, the pressure to develop high-performing teams is more critical thanever. In the modern work environment, teams are expected to embrace change,navigate complexity, and collaborate well under pressure ―all while deliveringexceptional results and forming productive relationships. While it is crucial to have talented, bright people within ateam, there is a dynamic that is even more essential to overall teameffectiveness. This dynamic is “Team Emotional Intelligence” (Team EQ). Whilemost people are familiar with emotional intelligence (EQ) when it comes toindividuals, the power of how EQ relates to the entire team has not beenwell-understood until now. Insights from the latest research on team emotionalintelligence and TalentSmartEQ’s research trends from working with over 200teams (with 2000+ team members) combine to bring EQ know-how to the team level.Team Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers practical strategies and showcases howan emotionally intelligent team is far more than the sum of its parts. Thisbook focuses on the four key skill areas of Team EQ: Team Emotion Awareness,Team Emotion Management, Internal Team Relationships, and External TeamRelationships, and it delivers 53 strategies and a step-by-step process forincreasing team EQ skills so team leaders and anyone who’s a member of a teamcan achieve peak performance and reach their goals. Dr. Greaves, Evan Watkins, and their contributing team ofexperts begin with a life and death story of team failure that illustrates howemotions can drive team decisions and lead to disaster. They share a provenapproach to helping teams understand Team EQ skills, build these skills intostrengths, and use them to sustain positive momentum and achieve peakperformance. Strategies for remote and hybrid teams working virtually offertargeted approaches to bonding, communicating, tough conversations, anddecision making as modern workplaces transform. Like she did with the best-sellingEmotional Intelligence 2.0 (at 2 million copies sold and counting), Dr. Greavesand her team take complex concepts and translate them into easy-to-understandskills that can be used immediately and developed further over time. Asorganizations increasingly rely on getting work done through teams, theunderstanding and development of team EQ skills is more relevant and impactfulthan ever.