#FitForVUCA - EQ Not IQ

Emotional Intelligence has become a hot topic at long last. Long overdue that we stopped demonising emotions and pretending we aren’t human once we enter the workplace. 

Soft skills are no longer scoffed at and speaking about empathy, compassion and EQ, in general, is no longer a jokey topic confined to special, optional, second-rate projects.

Just knowing it counts is good but not good enough, we have to roll our sleeves and rewire all the generations in the workforce and those coming after, to outline it's a new priority and to give them the permission to focus on this and learn to hone their recognition of their own emotions as well as the emotions of others.

At PeopleNotTech we believe firmly that without Emotional Intelligence you can’t have Psychologically Safe teams so it’s a sine qua non condition of our growth. 

We’ve spoken about the connection between EQ and leadership, between EQ and Psychological Safety and about the reason why we’ve decided to build an Emotional Intelligence Trainer as part of our software before, but in this video, we have another chat about the topic and we reveal why is it that we some times hold EQ-Improving Workshops with team members in addition to team leaders. 

The day that we all start being measured by how able we are to recognise emotions in ourselves and others, is a day that we’ll be the better version of ourselves that will remain #VUCA- competitive. 

Is your EQ high? Are you working on it? What’s your boss’ EQ? Do your team members manage to read each other’s emotions? Does it help when they do? Tell us what you think in the comments and let’s dissect what can be done so we all become versions of Counselor Troi.