What if 10 years ago I told you that the average adult in 2018 would spend 11 hours a day interacting with media? Would you have believed me?
And yet, recent market research by Nielsen says, here we are.
So, what do you think the impact is on interpersonal communication skills?
It isn’t a surprise to know that across all sectors there is an increased demand of 26% in the US for social, emotional, and advanced communication skills. (McKinsey – Skill Shift)
Optimizing growth and performance of your team requires a focus today on what we might have taken for granted in the past. Today coaching for social, emotional, and advanced communication skills is an imperative.
To grow your team’s emotional, social, and advanced communication skills, you can try this simple exercise:
- Share the Emotional Intelligence Domains and Competencies from Daniel Goleman’s work.
- Have the team work together to identify what types of skills are important in each of the 4 Domains to further develop social, emotional, and advanced communication skills.
- Then have the team identify their particular strengths in each area, and areas they feel they could work on.
- Ask the team to share their key strengths with each other and identify areas where they can help each other.
