A leader explains why high-performing teams need emotional intelligence to sense when something is wrong and change course. The speaker argues that people who've survived trauma often develop stronger EQ, and that this ability to read a room is what separates teams that adapt from teams that don't.
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Thank you for sitting down with me to get us started. Why don't you share a must have characteristic of a high performing team? The ability to sense that something is off or different or needs a change. In a market where you've got uncertainty, you need to have leaders that can sense that. Otherwise, if you don't have high EQ and you're running straight towards something, you're going to have a very hard time pivoting. Can you train for that or is that just something that you develop over time? There's been a lot of conversations, a lot of studies around like EQ and you know, can you train it? Do you just have it into, you know, where does that come from? And what I've seen is one of the, the big correlations. Almost every single person that I've ever met that had a major traumatic event or multiple has always had EQ because they go into that survival mode. And that correlation to me is like understanding like what are the things that you've had to overcome in your life really tells me a lot about everything that you need to know about what they're going to be able to do in a team environment.