Jevon Wooden argues that leader emotional intelligence and psychological safety are what drive organizational success. Without psychological safety, creativity dies. Low EI in leaders cascades down, causing high performers to lose motivation and passion.
because those two will be the, the catalyst for whether you success or fail. Because without those two, right, you don't have psychological safety. And if you don't have psychological safety, you will lack creativity, and creativity leads to innovation, right? So if you have none, no, low emotional intelligence, or no emotional intelligence among your leaders, um, that's going to trickle down into your staff, and those people who were once shining stars will fizzle like fizzle out really quickly. They will just be assimilated into that, that culture of— that drains them of their desire, of their passion, of their intrinsic motivation to do great things. Um, so that's where I start when it comes to training.
