Episode 02:
Emotional Intelligence 101.
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Imagine if you had a magic mirror that could tell you exactly why you're feeling sad or angry, and it could tell you exactly what to do to feel better.
This tool is like that magic mirror. It helps you understand why you're feeling a certain way, and what to do with those feelings.
As a leader, granting your team improved self-understanding and the capacity to navigate their own emotions, leads to better decisions and an easier time as a leader.
When you don’t talk about your own feelings - do they simply disappear?
When people understand their emotions, they work better together. The emotional core of your brain is like the world’s messiest office. Don’t you find it easier to work and find things when it's clean?
By allowing employees to navigate their own emotions, the workplace becomes a more effective and harmonious environment, leading to increased productivity and less conflict.
It's like a guidebook for their emotions. It helps them understand why they're feeling a certain way and how to react positively. It reduces the chances of them getting lost.
Emotions run high when change occurs. Few things are more laden with change that a leader assuming a new role. In fact, 80% of all leaders derail at some point in their career with role change being the biggest catalyst by far.
Not only does learning how to process emotion reduce the risk of derailment - it helps them fostering better team dynamics, which is probably what they were hired to do to begin with.
By increasing vulnerability and transparency, the two essential building blocks of trust.
While everyone’s “personality” is different - we all experience emotion the same way. It is an evolutionary signal designed to makes us take the same survival actions.
When everyone understands their emotions, they are better at managing them. When everyone understands they share the same emotions as everyone else…they become better at sharing them.
Think of mood like a weather forecast for your office. Getting the full picture of how everyone feels, reveals the emotional climate.
It tells you how ‘sunny’ your 3 o’clock meeting will be or if you should be packing an umbrella.
Track moods over time and you’ll begin to make the right organizational culture shifts that impact the organizational climate.
It’s more honest and effective data than any employee engagement survey could ever hope to give you.
Make no mistake, emotion is a language. More to the point, it’s truly the only universal language.
When everyone understands their emotions and can express them, they communicate better. They know when and how to speak up or stand down. They know the difference between being frustrated with a situation versus being annoyed with the person who caused it.
Not only does this prevent miscommunication - it ensures that ‘communication’ actually happens.
Most workplace conflict happens in our own heads. We play both roles, cementing our own narrative about the situation. In time, conversations that never happened, end up fuelling decisions that never should happen. This tool stops that dead in its tracks.
The first rule of MoodSwing - is we never force anyone to use it. It defeats the purpose of bringing emotion to the forefront of the workplace.
That said, we actually get pretty excited when this happens because it typically reveals a lack of psychological safety in the team.
This allows us to get to the real root of the problem faster than if the idea of discussing emotion at work was never introduced.
It's like having the world’s best performance coach in your pocket at all times. It helps them deal with their emotions before they cause them to make foolish decisions.
When people feel understood and can manage their emotions better, they're less likely to leave. Not only are they able to process the trigger and address the issue instead of simply running away, they appreciate working in a culture that gives them the opportunity to do so.
In terms of self-awareness - within seconds of someone’s first use of the tool.
Self-regulation, empathy and accountability - and the tangible benefits these produce for your teams - all increase over time.
However, none of these higher level functions of EQ can happen without mastering self-awareness.
And mastering self-awareness cannot happen when emotion is repressed. You cannot learn to regulate an emotion you do not allow yourself to feel. MoodSwing lets your people feel things in the safest possible way.
When used properly, it's like a quick daily workout. Less than 5 minutes.
However, most long-time users “workout” multiple times per day.
Our CEO for example uses it each and every time his environment changes.
Moving from a client meeting to an internal one. A meeting to a phone call. A nasty phone call to a happy one. It does not matter what the previous interaction was, ‘cleansing the emotional palette’ is essential.
Which is why the most common time he uses it, is before he walks through the door each evening to greet his kids.
Discover the emotions within your expanding organization based on distinct properties, effectively addressing behavioural shifts.
With MoodSwingTM, emotions are translated into a "code," providing an understandable guide to what each emotion means and how it influences behavior. By gaining insights into how emotions drive your team's actions, you can align your growing staff and leadership in tangible ways. Imagine a collaborative workplace where every emotion drives your team forward and how much lost potential could be recaptured.
Enhance emotional awareness and regulation within your fast-evolving organization by empowering your team to recognize and interpret emotions.
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Take control of cultural shifts during periods of intense growth or leadership change by understanding the root causes of emotions.
MoodSwingTM identifies emotional triggers, such as changes in task complexity or volume. It then describes the most likely negative coping and adaptive behaviors your team will use. By training your leaders what to look for, you can enhance your organization's emotional resilience. Stress and confusion are caused by unknown emotions. Imagine what your company could accomplish if it understood them better.
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