emotions
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Be patient with loss
As an excellent leader, it is quite possible you will be confronted with loss from time to time. Your own loss, or that of one of your team members. This loss may be of a personal nature, yet can also arise in the professional arena. Think of a project that was “your baby” being ended,…
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Communication is about emotion
How someone communicates with you is something much deeper than just providing you with information. What the other tells you (about their behavior, the situation they are in, what happened) boils down to telling you what affected them and how that affected them. Observational listening is about picking up on these emotions. It is less…
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A lot goes on automatic pilot
Most people tend to “react primarily”, as it is called. In other words, their behavior is largely automatic, they just react to the emotion without their behavior being a conscious choice. All these kinds of ready-made solutions are there for a reason: they increase our chances of survival. Very long ago, survival would mean dealing…
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Emotions are always present
It is not reason (cognition) that is leading in how people make decisions and behave, but emotion. In your conversations, you therefore focus on emotion. The other person will not always show their emotion, perhaps because they do not know, understand or are not able to show their own emotions. Even if the other person…
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No emotions in business?
I still hear people say: In business, no emotions. Imagine a life in which you experienced no emotions at all. Would you be unhappy? No, because that is an emotion. Would life be boring? Neither that. Experiencing no emotion means no experience. Emotions have meaning. Emotions give meaning to your life, they tell you what…