You're facing challenges with team dynamics at work. How can emotional intelligence help you improve them?

To improve team dynamics using emotional intelligence, it's essential to harness the principles of the MAT. First, self-awareness is key; knowing your authentic emotions allows you to respond effectively to challenges, rather than reacting based on false emotions. By ensuring each team member operates from a place of emotional authenticity—such as using true anger to confront injustice rather than misplaced frustration—the team becomes more cohesive and resilient. In essence, emotional intelligence rooted in the MAT transforms team dynamics by fostering genuine communication, trust, and collaboration.

No doubt, self regulation is the key. But it is also crucial to ensure that self proclaimed mini-leaders within the team are also regulated without allowing them to get the feeling of being let down. Your knowledge, ethics, character and proven integrity/impartiality would help here.

Ouvir com compaix?o, assimilar o que o membro da equipe está dizendo e mostrar interesse genuíno de que você se importa com as necessidades e reclama??es do outro. Pessoas gostam e precisam ser ouvidas e nem sempre será necessário resolver as coisas imediatamente.

Showing empathy is really good. But care is to be taken to ensure that it is not misplaced one.. Team should not get the feeling that handful of egoistic persons are blackmailing them, misusing their innocence.

Often, it is the individual Ego is the first and foremost element coming in the way of team dynamics and achievement of goals assigned to the group. In every group, there would be a couple of persons who feel that they are superior than others and hence their views should be heard. In any case, the Team leader would have segregated the main task into manageable sub tasks. Success of the Team Leader lies in converting the members perceived as liabilities into Assets. One of the ways to achieve this is to nominate such members as the leaders of sub teams, and then closely monitor their progress, with a standby plan B. If they succeed, they start adoring you. If they fail, at least their ego would get trimmed.

Conflicts within a team do happen due to conflict of personal interests. The team leader should try to develop the culture which prioritises institutional goals above personal ambitions. Any amount of preaching would not help unless and until accompanied by implementation at personal level by the leader.

No contexto de equipes, a inteligência emocional ajuda na identifica??o do tipo e nível de desafios vivenciados por uma equipe. Quando prestamos aten??o aos sentimentos e aos comportamentos das pessoas, os nossos e dos outros, podemos perceber, ver e, escolher o que fazer a respeito. Ao utilizar o modo analisar e responder, lembrar que ninguém sabe de todos os lados da história e a perspectiva de cada pessoa é válida e necessária do ponto de vista do observador. Há algumas ferramentas interessantes a serem compartilhadas e trabalhadas que têm a finalidade de ajudar a equipe a perceber em que estágio(s) de convivência ou níveis de conflito ela está durante intera??es ou projetos (Os cinco níveis de conflito)

Sometimes, being a good listener helps in ego management more than being a preacher: for every person has intense desire of being heard particularly by his/her leader and the team. Once a proper vent is provided for for release of excessive emotions, the differences would also start evaporating in due course, like steam getting released out of a pressure cooker. Encourage your team to celebrate by whistling( like the whistle of the pressure cooker) when the egos are getting released.