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Emotional Intelligence

Quietly Leading Yourself

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Emotional intelligence is often described as recognising and managing emotions, but in leadership it is much more practical than that. It is noticing what is happening before reacting, understanding how your behaviour affects others, and making conscious choices rather than emotional ones. Across The Quiet Leader HQ, emotional intelligence appears in many different forms. Sometimes it is about staying calm during conflict. Sometimes it is about recognising when someone needs encouragement rather than accountability. Sometimes it is simply learning to pause before speaking.

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3 31 sec

If you make a mistake, apologise.

42 1 min 3 sec

Some leaders make people nervous without realising it.

46 53 sec

Calmness is more contagious than leaders realise.

58 1 min

Quietly Embarrassing #1: people remember embarrassment for a very long time.

59 1 min 33 sec

Quietly Embarrassing #2: why embarrassment happens more often than people realise.

60 1 min 23 sec

Quietly Embarrassing #3: how emotionally healthy people handle embarrassment differently.

67 1 min 23 sec

Quietly Regretting #5: I sometimes assumed the worst too quickly.

70 1 min 17 sec

Quietly Regretting #8: I underestimated how much my mood affected others.

74 1 min 24 sec

Leaders often inherit emotional climates they did not create.

115 57 sec

Quietly Noticing #5: people rarely forget how you made them feel.

119 59 sec

Quietly Noticing #9: emotions are more contagious than you think.

126 58 sec

Strong leaders lower emotional temperature first.

174 1 min 44 sec

What is this annoyance really trying to tell me?

188 1 min 44 sec

Quietly Coping #4: listen to the broken record