Strong teams aren’t built on personality or talent alone. They succeed when emotional intelligence shapes how people work together: supporting one another, surfacing challenges early, and staying grounded in shared goals, even under pressure.

Just released, The Emotionally Intelligent Team presents a research-backed model for building group dynamics that actually work. Drawing on three decades of research, Vanessa Druskat shows how emotional intelligence operates at the team level and how leaders can build the habits and culture that sustain it.