Why successful teams build emotional intelligence—and how

Why successful teams build emotional intelligence—and how

Vanessa Urch Druskat is an associate professor of organizational behavior at the University of New Hampshire. She is a social and organizational psychologist, an award-winning scholar, and a pioneer of the concept of team emotional intelligence. Vanessa also serves on the executive board of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. What’s the big idea? There is abundant evidence that teams are far better than indivi…