Emotional Intelligence begins with our ability or inability to recognize and understand the emotions in ourselves. Jason Barger discusses development tips to help practice personal self-awareness.
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Jason introduces Season 6 episode 11 of the podcast, Season 6 Episode 11: Awareness of Self: Practicing Emotional Intelligence. Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. We deep dive into today’s topic.
We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with. If you have a suggestion, please send it to info@jasonvbarger.com
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1:30 – Jason introduces the episode and mentions some past episodes to check out from the multi-part series about The Great Resignation which happened this season as well as the importance of great leaders in podcasts this season.
4:20 – This begins a two-part series on emotional intelligence. The first episode of the series covers looking inward at ourselves and the next episode on emotional intelligence will out outward at how our actions influence others and how we can better respond to others through emotional intelligence.
“58% of our performance is tied to emotional intelligence”
6:34 – We bring our own emotional intelligence and our own personality to every task we do. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize and understand the emotions in yourself and others and our ability to use this awareness to manage our response in our relationships and to develop our relationships around it.
9:00 – Employee experience and engagement goes up in companies that invest in emotional intelligence and are 2-5x more likely to hit targets and to delight customers. 9 out of 10 people say they would take a pay cut if it meant they could be part of a more meaningful culture. Be sure to listen to our multi-part series on the Great Resignation
12:45 – There are 4 self-management strategies for our own personal competency for ourselves.
- Breathing – Take a deep breath and take in good oxygen. Catch yourself during the day when you might constrict your breathing and slow down for a moment. Jason shares a story about freediving.
- Taking emotion inventory – What are you feeling in the moment? Take inventory and learn the behaviors and causes of things that trigger us.
- Controlling our inner narrative – Studies show that people have between 12-60K thoughts in an average day and 80% of those slant towards negative and 95% are repetitive.
- Schedule time for us to recharge – Block off time in your schedule to recharge. Americans prior to the pandemic, 768 million days of vacation went unused. Rest is important and we need to take time to recharge our minds and bodies and spirits.
Questions to Ponder
- What are you aware of with your own personal feelings and responses lately?
- What temperature do you want to set for the people around you? What temperature is needed for your team or your relationships?
Practice appreciation and gratitude for all that is within your control. Now is a chance for all of us to positively impact those around us and on our team. What is our response? How do we behave and help to shape the culture for those around us?
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Remember, the best leaders, teams, & cultures stimulate progress by recalibrating their thermostat together.
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ABOUT THE THERMOSTAT
Conversations and micro-thoughts to engage your mind and heart.
A thermostat is proactive. It sets the temperature in a room. Controls the temperature. Regulates the temperature. But in today’s distracted, fast-paced and digital world, it’s easy for individuals and organizations to act more like thermometers, slipping into reactionary thinking, becoming scattered and inconsistent. The most compelling leaders, teams, organizations, families, or collection of humans of any kind operate in thermostat mode. They calibrate their mind and heart to set the temperature for the vision and culture they want to create. Jason Barger, globally celebrated author, keynote speaker, and founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting, is the host of The Thermostat, a podcast journey to discover authentic leadership, create compelling cultures and find clarity of mission, vision, and values.