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Squiggly Careers · 2025-11-04 · 42 min · 8,825 words

Team Emotional Intelligence: The Secret to High-Performing Teams

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Team emotional intelligence is when a group of people working together are good at understanding everyone's feelings and using that understanding to help each other and work better as a team. You know, we talk about often with our work that this combination of awareness and action, sort of awareness of the people in the team, how they're feeling, what they're bringing, and then doing something with that awareness. With emotional intelligence, it's creating more of the awareness and the action across the team. Oh, we must do a challenge and build meeting. The whole point of team emotional intelligence is it has to feel like a routine or a ritual.

How regularly do you think that teams should reassess themselves? You can't have loads and loads of rituals and routines because people can't keep up and it's overwhelming and I think there's like, there's a balance to get right here. Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I wanted to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are very excited about, and that is that our new book, Learn Like a Lobster, is now ready to pre-order. We think that learning is so important to people succeeding in their squiggly career, but we recognise that it is not easy to do.

And so we wanted to inspire people to look differently at learning and we think that lobsters are the role model that we have been missing. We really, really appreciate it when people pre-order our book. It means that our book gets momentum and also you get it first. But we know it's a while before that book arrives and so anyone who pre-orders, we have got a special surprise.

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