The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership with Heather Chauvin
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As a leader, you’re responsible for a lot of people.
But what does that responsibility really mean?
Is it about taking on the problems of your team and staff? Or is it about helping them become the best professionals and individuals they can be?
You see something I often see when working with owners and directors is their tendency to take responsibility for issues that don’t belong to them.
They see a teacher struggling to manage their classroom or come to school on time, and their first reaction is to step in.
Why? Because seeing people in discomfort is uncomfortable, and we think that by taking on their pain, we’re helping them in the best way possible.
But the truth is that when you intervene, you’re actually taking away from their human experience and eliminating the opportunity for them to learn and grow.
The best thing you can do as a leader is learn to sit with the discomfort of watching others struggle, so you can support them to make their own decisions.
How? That’s what I’m discussing on this week’s podcast episode.
Join me as I sit down with author, speaker, podcast host, and leadership coach Heather Chauvin for an enlightening conversation about emotional discomfort and how changing your perspective on it can help you become a stronger leader.
We’ll be talking about:
- What Heather’s learned from her journey through motherhood & cancer treatment
- Compassion fatigue and how it impacts leaders
- What practices you can use to learn to sit with discomfort
- How to help your team & staff learn to manage their own emotions
- Practical tips to help you take action toward developing stronger leadership
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
If you’d like to learn more about Heather and her journey, you can check out her Emotionally Uncomfortable Podcast, watch her TEDx talk, read her book , or take her aligned life quiz here.
Sitting in discomfort is an important part of learning to set healthier boundaries, which is a topic we discuss often in the Schools of Excellence Owner’s Only HQ and Director’s Inner Circle membership programs. As a member, you’ll gain ongoing access to tools, resources, coaching, and community that will not only help you set boundaries, but also develop other key leadership skills.
You can also attend our on-demand Delegate to Elevate Workshop to learn how to set healthier boundaries around your time. During the 90-minute online workshop, I’ll show you how to delegate effectively so you can better manage your schedule, decrease your workload, and develop a high-performing team that can help you build a school of excellence.
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More about the show:
If you are an Early Childhood director or owner, prepare to transform your school and life with the Schools of Excellence podcast. Tune in each week to learn from Chanie Wilschanski, the founder and host of the Schools of Excellence Podcast and a mom of 4 little kids. Each episode will be packed with tools and strategies – equipping you to build schools with higher staff retention, teacher motivation, parent partnership, collaborative culture, and beautiful quality of life.
Every week, Chanie shares the truth about the journey to excellence, the strategies that are working TODAY, and the mindset about the critical decisions and choices that you make every day which impact yourself, your teachers, parents, family, and children who you serve every day.
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