S2Ep05: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in Business with Ise Lyfe

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Today’s guest, Ise Lyfe, believes that emotional intelligence goes hand-in-hand with the success of a company. Ise is the CEO of Lyfe Productives, a product development company dedicated to making health and education provocative for hard-to-reach audiences. He is known for creating many positive impacts on society through his business and is most proud of one particular deal where he partnered with the FDA and a local food distributor to bring healthy food to an urban community that he believed to be surrounded by bio-chemical warfare. In this episode, he explains what it means to institutionalize emotional intelligence in a company, how he creates a loving work environment that accommodates factors beyond his control, and the importance of creating a margin for error to help employees feel secure. Tuning in you’ll discover Ise’s management tips for how to cultivate an environment where people want to show up to work, resources that he recommends, and the power of pro-tips and the application of knowledge in the workplace. To hear all this as well as Ise’s recommended exercise for anyone wanting to start a business, tune in today!

Key Points From This Episode:

• The growth of Ise’s business and the point when realized he could no longer manage it alone.
• How delegation was less about the bottom line and more about emotional intelligence.
• How delegation resulted in the company becoming much more profitable.
• What it meant to Ise to institutionalize emotional intelligence.
• Why Ise believes that arousal, plus a label, equals an emotion and how this plays out in business.
• How Ise creates a loving work environment that accommodates factors beyond his control.
• The importance of creating margin for error to help employees feel secure.
• How and why his company tries to maintain awareness of the cognitive map.
• How the leadership team continues to curate and cultivate this space.
• The constant value the company places on pro tips and shared learning experiences.
• How a recent pro-tip led the company to acquire a nursery instead of building one.
• How Ise distinguishes between a recoverable failure and a performance issue.
• Ise’s company’s greatest creative accomplishment in light of his mission to make healthcare and education provocative for hard-to-reach audiences.
• Resources that Ise recommends to anyone who wants to enhance their creative practice, create value in the world, or push their learning to the next level.
• And an exercise that Ise recommends to anyone wanting to start a business.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Ise Lyfe

Lyfe Productives

Ise Lyfe on LinkedIn

Ise Lyfe on Twitter

The Four Agreements

Business Wars

Jeremy Utley

Marcus Hollinger