Quick Emotional Intelligence Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Team Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes

by Adele Lynn

Overview

This simple, easy-to-use book gives managers, supervisors, and team leaders activities to help their teams overcome emotional obstacles and become more effective.

In a team situation, many issues — like lack of trust and commitment, unresolved conflicts, and the inability of individuals to understand how their actions impact the rest of the team — can stop even the most promising groups from delivering great results.

In Quick Emotional Intelligence Activities for Busy Managers, you will find powerful, proven exercises they can use to help employees:

• identify individual and team mood
• deal with anger and emotional triggers
• avert, rather than avoid, conflict
• encourage communication
• overcome fear and other obstacles
• understand and manage competition
• honor differences
• assess team strengths and weaknesses
• pick up on cues from teammates
• control the emotional climate of the team

Each activity is followed by a discussion of its purpose, how to use it, and a list of post-activity questions to help solidify each lesson. This practical, effective collection of proven exercises will elicit the best from any team.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814408957
Publisher:	AMACOM
Publication date:	01/29/2007
Edition description:	Special ed.
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)
Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

Adele B. Lynn (Belle Vernon, PA) is the founder and owner of The Adele Lynn Leadership Group, an international consulting and training firm whose clients include many Fortune 500 companies. Her business focuses on helping organizations strengthen productivity and quality through improvements in emotional intelligence and workplace trust. Her previous books include Quick Emotional Intelligence Activities for Busy Managers (978-0-8144-0895-7), The Emotional Intelligence Activity Book (978-0-8144-7123-4) and The EQ Difference (978-0-8144-0844-5).

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 A Guide to the 50 Activities

CHAPTER 2 What You’ll See for Each Activity

Purpose

Why is this Important?

How to Set the Stage

When to Use this Activity

Materials

Key Questions

A Word of Caution

Variations

Asking for Commitment

CHAPTER 3 How to Use this Book

Before the Activity

During the Activity

After the Activity

CHAPTER 4 For the Leader

Your Mindset/Role Model

Learn More

Reinforce Behaviors

Timing and Readiness

As Your Team Develops

What If

CHAPTER 5 The Activities

EQ #1 Mood Check

EQ #2 I Can Top That

EQ #3 Lead Balloons

EQ #4 When Things Go Wrong

EQ #5 Helium Balloons

EQ #6 Hair Triggers or Hot Buttons

EQ #7 Spirit Killers

EQ #8 UP

EQ #9 Strung Tight

EQ #10 Team Trophies

EQ #11 Thank You for the Gifts

EQ #12 Who Said That

EQ #13 Choir Director

EQ #14 5 Team Strengths

EQ #15 5 Team Weaknesses

EQ #16 Speak Up

EQ #17 Keep Your Eye on the Eye

EQ #18 My Dirty Dozen

EQ #19 Search Warrants

EQ #20 PFAT Self-Scan

EQ #21 PFAT Group Scan

EQ #22 People and Events in the News

EQ #23 Tuning In

EQ #24 But I Didn’t Mean…

EQ #25 Trading Spaces

EQ #26 What Else?

EQ #27 Channel Surfing

EQ #28 Voices in Harmony

EQ #29 Color My World

EQ #30 And Now a Word from Our Sponsor

EQ #31 Emotional Trophies

EQ #32 Secret Admirer

EQ #33 Accomplishments Flower Garden

EQ #34 Profiles in Respect

EQ #35 Perfect Team

EQ #36 Gut Check

EQ #37 Timed Reflection

EQ #38 Best Failure

EQ #39 First Impression

EQ #40 I Think, I Feel

EQ #41 Cartoon Characters

EQ #42 Throwing Rocks

EQ #43 The Pause Button

EQ #44 The Pause Elf

EQ #45 Best Practices

EQ #46 Heroes

EQ #47 It’s in the Air

EQ #48 My Mantra

EQ #49 Flying Values

EQ #50 What’s Different

Recommended Resources

Index"