EQFIT - Equipping People to Prosper

Managing stress with emotional intelligence is the best way to reduce stress. Stress is made up of a complex set of emotions, so it makes sense that the skills of emotional intelligence would be the key to reducing stress. Whether you are a stay-at-home parent, a remote worker, retired, leading a team, or a C-suite executive, everyone needs to be able to reduce stress through leveraging the skills of emotional intelligence.

For deeper insight and specific action steps, got to our website, www.eqfit.org, and look for the blog article: Managing Stress with Emotional Intelligence. (Week of October 21, 2024)

How do you measure the vital signs for work in a team? By focusing on the most important drivers of success: Trust, Execution, Motivation, Teamwork, and Change (being change agile). The Team Vital Signs from Six Seconds is a unique team assessment/survey that provides validated and actionable data. What is actionable data? Data that gives you accurate insight and allows you to create KPIs and goals to move the team to become a high performing team. Vital signs for teams must include those elements most impactful for team health. People don't leave winning teams by choice. They leave when there is poor leadership and when the team is not winning. The Team Vital Signs is the first step to creating winning teams.

When taking the vital signs for work, leadership is the most impactful place to start. One of the best ways to do this is to utilize a leadership360 assessment. These tools, if they are highly validated, can provide invaluable insight into how a leader is showing up in their leadership for other people. Leadership vital signs must include the 5 drivers of success for work: Trust, Execution, Teamwork, Motivation, and Change (the ability to lead well through change). The right leadership360 assessment will provide actionable data that can immediately identify the right path forward and create the KPIs needed for the leader to reach their full leadership potential.

Just like doctors check their patients' vital signs, we can do the same thing for leaders, teams, and entire organizations. Diagnose what is not working well. Identify root causes of dysfunction. Discover opportunities for enhancement and unlocking unrealized potential. The best decisions and outcomes happen when you have the best insights and actionable data. Want to build a competitive advantage? It starts by checking the vital signs.

What is my habit story? It is the discovery of my productive and counterproductive habits and how those are impacting every aspect of my life. There is now a way to measure habits to understand what your personal habit story is and how you can transform your habits for more success and satisfaction in life. Thousands of people around the world are tuning in to their habit story...and shaping their future for better outcomes.

The fastest way to increase trust...trust via emotional intelligence. EI skills are foundational to building and maintaining trust. Trust via emotional intelligence leverages empathy, and social skills, along with self-awareness and self-regulation, to enhance relationships and interaction with other people. Trust is "the currency of getting things done". Especially getting things done through other people.

One of the most impactful areas of leadership focus is something called, "continuous partial attention". Distractions in the workplace have always been a challenge. Today, with so many people connected to so many devices, the urge to be distracted is more difficult to resist than ever before. How many times have you seen people in meetings checking their phones or watches? How many people on virtual calls turn their video off? Continuous partial attention (CPA) has become an increasing drain on productivity, communications, relationships, and really every aspect of life and work. This episode looks at this challenge from a leadership focus, both for leaders themselves and their team members.

A key leadership focus is how to accelerate success. The very definition of leadership is leading...leading yourself and leading others. Emotions drive people, people drive performance. If you want better leadership outcomes, then gain the skills you need to better navigate and manage the emotional complexity in human dynamics and interactions. Emotional intelligence competencies and skills are the fuel you need for your team to excel and to get the success and satisfaction you desire.

Growing your growth skills starts with creating and maintaining a growth mindset. Leaders are learners...and we are all leaders in some way. Knowing how to grow is just as important as knowing what to grow. Developing a growth mindset has a multi-dimensional impact. It impacts your own growth, then it cascades to the people around you. These are skills for a lifetime!

The secret to great leadership is for the leadership focus to be on developing leadership skills starting from within. Great leaders love to learn. They love to grow their leadership focus by developing new skills, enhancing current skills, and expanding their capacity and competence. Leadership is a set of perishable skills. These skills need to be practiced and applied regularly and consistently. But first, this leadership focus must become an integral part of a leader's mindset.