The Emotional Capital Team Report
Leveraging decades of peer-reviewed research to enhance team performance, the Emotional Capital Team Report (ECR Teams) offers a comprehensive analysis of your team’s Emotional Intelligence (EQ).
It’s the world’s most advanced assessment for measuring team EQ, detailing how individuals recognize and practice the 10 core Emotional Capital competencies that drive improved team performance, under 3 key pillars of high performing teams: Psychological Safety, Team Identity and Team Efficacy.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
Enables team members to believe your workplace is a safe environment for interpersonal risk-taking, fostering trust, respect, and emotional awareness.
- Team Awareness
- Team Trust
- Stress Management
Team Psychological Safety describes a team climate characterized by emotional awareness, interpersonal trust and mutual respect in which people are comfortable expressing themselves.
TEAM IDENTITY
Enhances the sense of belonging, motivating individuals to contribute to team goals and prioritize team objectives.
- Team Responsibility
- Team Motivation
- Relationships and Teamwork
Team identity is the degree to which individual team members experience a positive sense of being included in the group and share the team’s goals and aspirations.
It involves taking responsibility for prioritizing the objectives of the team as a collective and being motivated to contribute to the performance of the group. It is characterised by collaboration and mutuality in patterns of team interaction.
TEAM EFFICACY
Cultivates the collective belief that the team can work well together and achieve goals, resulting in improved motivation, engagement, and persistence.
- Team Communication
- Adaptability and Agility,
- Team Optimism
Team efficacy comprises the collective belief of all team members that they have the ability and capacity to work well as a team and accomplish their goals.
When team efficacy is high team members are typically more motivated, engaged, and generally persistence in the face of difficulties and challenges and perform better as a collective.
ECR TEAM CORE EMOTIONAL CAPITAL ASSESSMENT
Psychological Safety
Team Awareness
Emotionally intelligent teams are aware of how the emotions of the group impact the team’s behaviour. Team members are clear about the team’s priorities and core values. They recognize how emotions impact the personal opinions, attitudes and judgements being expressed.
Team Trust
Emotionally intelligent teams demonstrate a commitment to understanding each other’s feelings and thoughts. They show sincere interest in each other’s experience, and trust one another’s intentions. They listen well and establish genuine emotional connections with all members.
Stress Management
Emotionally intelligent teams manage their emotions well and restrain their actions until they have time to think rationally and consider possible actions. They are able to stay calm in stressful situations and maintain productivity without losing control. They demonstrate patience toward each other and control negative emotions.
Team Identity
Team Responsibility
Emotionally intelligent teams take individual and collective responsibility for both their decisions and for delivering results. Team members willingly accept new responsibilities and hold each other accountable for achieving collective goals.
Team Motivation
Emotionally intelligent teams maintain an enthusiastic commitment to setting and achieving their goals. They derive a great deal of satisfaction from their work together and maintain a passionate commitment to achieving both their personal and professional aspirations.
Relationships and Teamwork
Emotionally intelligent teams establish and maintain mutually satisfying relationships characterized by positive expectations. Members work together as equals, support one another and assist each other to achieve collective goals.
Team Efficacy
Team Confidence
Emotionally intelligent teams accept and respect each member of the group and value individual contributions. They are confident in their combined skills and abilities and are sure of the value they deliver to the organisation.
Team Communication
Emotionally intelligent teams express their feelings and points of view openly in a straightforward way. They solicit the views of all team members and are comfortable challenging the views of others. Team members provide honest feedback and deal with conflict constructively.
Adaptability and Agility
Emotionally intelligent teams are open to new ideas. Members are tolerant of others and value diversity. They are agile and quickly able to adapt their thinking and actions in response to changing circumstances.
Team Optimism
Emotionally intelligent teams sense opportunities even in the face of adversity and are able to maintain a positive, productive mood. They are resilient and can see the big picture and where they are going. They are able to focus on the possibilities of what can be achieved despite setbacks. They celebrate success.
Of course, no matter how amazing the assessment is, the assessment on its own isn’t going to change the world, so we recommend a series of Team Coaching sessions (face to face or virtual) to truly set your team on a course of action to transform your team’s dynamics and unlock unparalleled potential.
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