Emotional Intelligence: Level up your leadership & success strategy!

Our ability to navigate our own, our teams’ or parents’ emotions and reactions is complex. Mental intelligence and functional leadership can only take us so far – emotional intelligence gives us complementary skills that move us and our people to the next level.

Even the most well run, organised and efficienct services can struggle with the emotional complexity or drama that commonly occurs within teams. Centre management, an environment of predominantly women, all juggling their own life challenges, and possibly peri or menopause, takes the level of difficulty and stress up several notches.

Emotional awareness (self and environmental), responsibility and regulation (our aim when employing EI) could also be considered a form of brand and reputation management. How we react or respond when triggered creates a perception and internal dialogue with anyone we interact with. Over time it becomes part of the culture and how we are perceived by each other, parents and partners.