Flip The Script Alina Costache

My guest today is Vanessa Druskat, the behavioural scientist who pioneered the concept of “team emotional intelligence”.

In this episode we discuss why and how we need to rethink many of our old concepts about teams:


Why having emotionally intelligent team members doesn’t guarantee the team itself will be emotionally intelligent
How teams’ emotional intelligence - or lack thereof - has a direct impact on performance
What explains bad behaviour such as selfishness on a team...
...and why, when that happens at the very top, that impacts cross-silo collaboration across the entire organisation
The 3 buckets of norms that shape a team’s emotional intelligence
The connection between our sense of inclusion and self-esteem


You can find Vanessa’s Harvard Business Review article on “Building the emotional intelligence of groups” here.

A high-ranked futurist and policy-influencing strategist discuss how we should reshape our relationship to change and risks.

In this episode we discuss how employee autonomy has become an expectation rather than just a perk; and how we can work around the push-and-pull of autonomy and control.

We discuss why psychological safety is so attractive in theory and yet so rare in practice.

In this episode I discuss the changes forced upon leadership in this unprecedented time of flux.

In this trailer of Flip the Script I share my personal why in starting this podcast and what to expect in the coming episodes.