Self-awareness, Self-leadership, Social awareness & Relationship management

Last month I asked you to tell me about your main challenges building a high performing team, engaging your direct reports – and committing them to you.

And I received a wide array of answers ranging from sophisticated concepts to very specific questions.

You obviously have different needs, situations, cultures, etc., because you all come from virtually every corner of the world (South East Asia, North America, Africa, Australia, etc.)

So what I did was to group your challenges by categories and subcategories. And to my surprise – I discovered that a significant part of your difficulties have their origin in the VERY fundamental building blocks of a sustainable high performance.

Many of you – by the way you position your question / situation – you seem to perceive that the source of your problem is coming from the team you lead and/or from your direct reports.

When in fact – instead of looking outwardly – you should be looking inwardly, meaning, looking at yourself in the mirror.

So …

I am going to start answering your questions by addressing the fundamental building blocks of a sustainable high performance.

One of these fundamental building blocks is your emotional intelligence.

Why emotional intelligence?

Because the higher your emotional intelligence is ...