Emotional intelligence

Imagine how different the world would be if every community group developed it's emotional intelligence?

"Emotional Intelligence allows us to be ‘bold’ in our willingness to speak up with our ideas, take risks and use our full potential.  It strengthens us to withstand and appropriately respond to workplace pressures and challenges.  Emotional Intelligence helps build robust collaborative relationships. 

So why is this focus on emotional intelligence necessary? It is because when we work in groups, so much of what trips people up and creates conflicts and other dysfunctional behaviour is caused by the emotional ‘stuff’ that goes on – much of it at an unconscious level. All too often when there is trouble in a group, we tend to look for the fault in others rather than reflect on our own contribution to what is going on. Because of these underlying unconscious dynamics, working in groups can easily ‘press our buttons’. Thus many groups underachieve, have high turnover or fail altogether."

http://www.groupwork.com.au/index.php/about-us/emotional-intelligence 

I found Groupwork Institute's website via a brilliant book they've written called Getting our Act Together - How to Harness the Power of Groups. It's got stack loads of brilliant tips for powering the collective wisdom of a group.