EQ&S for Managers

In This Together: Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Articles

Foundational Reading

• Employees who trust their bosses have more energy, less stress, and fewer sick days. Here are 4 ways to establish trust with your workers.
• A People Leader's Guide to Active Listening
• High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety. Here’s How to Create It.
• If You Aspire to Be a Great Leader, Be Present
• Good Leadership Is About Communicating "Why"
• How to Spot an Incompetent Leader
• To be a great leader, you need to start by leading yourself
• The Counterintuitive Thing about Trust that Explains Why So Many Teams Have Issues with It
• Self-Awareness Can Help Leaders More Than an MBA Can
• Are You Emotionally Intelligent? Here’s How to Know for Sure
• The process of building trust works in the opposite way that you think it does
• Creating A Culture of Recognition
• The emotionally intelligent way to resolve disagreements faster
• If You Can't Empathize With Your Employees, You'd Better Learn To
• Gratitude: How To Change Negative Beliefs, Be Happy, And Become Successful
• Empathy Quiz - Get your empathy score with feedback and tips on how to increase it
• 11 Habits of Genuinely Likable People
• Brené Brown and Marc Brackett On Emotional Intelligence During A Pandemic
• 5 reasons we need emotionally intelligent leaders in times of crisis

Further Reading

• [COVID-19] A leader’s guide: Communicating with teams, stakeholders, and communities during COVID-19, by McKinsey
• [COVID-19] The secret to making Zoom meetings meaningful for you and your coworkers
• [COVID-19] Three Hours Longer, the Pandemic Workday Has Obliterated Work-Life Balance
• The ultimate guide to becoming a better boss in 30 days, with exercises and advice from the co-creator of Netflix's influential culture deck
• Tapping into the power of humble narcissism
• 10 Things Great Leaders Say That Creates Engaged Teams
• Here's the "superpower" that makes LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner so popular and successful
• How psychological safety actually works
• What makes a great leader, explained in eight counterintuitive charts
• A lesson in compassion: How Airbnb Co-Founder/CEO Brian Chesky let go of 25% of their workforce
• How Smart People Handle Toxic People
• Master the art of influence: persuasion and skill as a habit
• Good Leaders Are Great Storytellers - 6 Tips for Telling Stories that Resonate

Videos & Podcasts

Foundational Topics

• Leadership and Compassion by Daniel Goleman
• How to make stress your friend by Kelly McGonigal
• Why good leaders make you feel safe by Simon Sinek
• The tribes we lead by Seth Godin
• The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team (Summary)
• Are you a giver or a taker? by Adam Grant
• The puzzle of motivation by Dan Pink
• Understanding Empathy by Simon Sinek
• Dare to Lead: Interview with Brene Brown
• Breaking down the meaning of presence by Amy Cuddy
• Introduction to the Culture Code by Dan Coyle
• How great leaders inspire action by Simon Sinek

More Great Stuff

• [Podcast] Adam Grant Work Life: We Don’t Have to Fight Loneliness Alone
• [Podcast] Dr. Marc Brackett and Brené Brown on "Permission to Feel"
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
• Build Your Personal Charisma by Olivia Fox Cabane
• Are you an ideal team player? by Patrick Lencioni
• How to Build Trust by Dr John Gottman
• The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
• 3 Steps to Accelerate the Speed of Trust
• Creating Psychological Safety at Work in a Knowledge Economy by Amy Edmondson
• Good to Great - Level 5 Leaders
• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Summary
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Summary
• Jordan Peterson: Improving your listening skills

Books

• Primal Leadership, by Daniel Goleman
• Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness (25th Anniversary Edition), by Robert K. Greenleaf
• Start with Why, by Simon Sinek
• Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Steven Covey
• The Five Dysfunctions of A Team, by Patrick Lencioni
• The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane
• Give and Take, by Adam Grant
• Dare to Lead, by Brené Brown
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell
• Trillion Dollar Coach, by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
• Leaders Eat Last, by Simon Sinek
• Together, by Vivek Murthy
• Drive, Daniel Pink
• Presence, by Amy Cuddy
• The Culture Code, Dan Coyle
• Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
• Good to Great, by Jim Collins
• Tribes, by Seth Godin
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
• How Will You Measure Your Life, by Clayton Christensen & James Allworth