Inflection Point Moment

Using the RULER approach can help you and your team become more emotionally self-aware. As a leader, you need to make your business a safe place to process emotions by setting a positive example. Your team will know and remember if you consistently and thoughtfully respond rather than react
in the moment.

As a leader, you need a safe place to process your emotions. Vomiting them on your team is NOT the way to process them! Your “Corner 4” people build you up, give honest feedback,
and help you grow to your highest potential. They are the people you should go to with your emotions and figure out a way forward. Be fully present, ready to listen to their perspective, and open to learning from the situation. Then you can express your emotions appropriately with your
team.

Exploring what precipitated an emotion can help us understand what got us to where we are. Sometimes we don’t immediately know what caused us to feel a certain way or we develop a story that strays from the truth. Asking what questions, not why questions, will help you be objective, future-focused, and empowered to identify what caused our emotion and act on your new insights.

Learn to recognize and name your emotions. Stop suppressing your emotions and pushing them down. You need to feel them to recognize them. That doesn’t mean you have to act on every emotion you experience. It means you must acknowledge and identify them. Look beyond the three emotions people are generally able to identify. Don’t just
say you’re mad. What kind of mad are you? If you’re sad, are you more devastated or frustrated? Join us to dig into identifying emotions to become more emotionally intelligent.

While business acumen is critical for success, emotional intelligence can tip the scale for you from scratching out a living as a small business owner to thriving as you grow your business. Connecting and creating alignment around your business WHY motivates your team to achieve the company
vision.

For small business owners, EQ relates to the “soft skills” side of business. It’s so much more than being nice, which is a common misconception about emotional intelligence. It’s the way we understand ourselves and how we deal with our emotions while leading.

Taking on emotional Intelligence may feel overwhelming, especially if you’re a very transactional leader. But taking
small steps towards improving your self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management skills will put you on the right track. Are you willing to do the
work?

“True leaders have an awareness of their emotional wake.”

Your success level goes up when you’re focused on the work in your current stage of business. Join us to talk about making your life easier by focusing on the right things for your stage of business.

What markers are you seeing in your stage of business? If you get out of your space, don’t be afraid to go back into the stage of business where you need to be. Like moving up a ladder, you've got to have the foundation of level one before you can move on to level two.