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Emotions.You know nothing can throw someone off as much as emotions. Unexpected raw emotions. I recall my dad , God rest his soul, my dad could not stand to hear a baby cry. If he heard a baby cry, he’d turn to my mom with this expression of , fix it. He was so uncomfortable with crying babies, really any expression of emotion that wasn’t pleasant. A laughing baby was ok but a crying one was not.
When you think about the workplace. Where do you fit in with emotions?
Many of my clients are not comfortable with emotions whether it’s crying, laughing, anger, frustration. I work in a technical field so it is exacerbated, this concept that we work without emotion because emotions means, ‘you aren’t working to optimal efficiency’. Or something like that.
The truth is we are humans complete with a full spectrum of emotions and that’s what we’re going to explore on today’s show. Emotions. That and more on today’s show.
Emotions = Energy + Information
Emotions carry energy and information. It is not weak to have emotions. The point is what energy and what information are those emotions conveying?
The challenge for us is how do we deal with emotions in the workplace?
When you have emotions that come up for you allow me to suggest to check the energy and the information content.
What’s the energy surrounding that emotion? There is deep wisdom (I promise you there is) in the energy around the emotion. Whatever the emotion may be.
Second I’ll place up here on the coaching table to explore the information around the emotion. What information is trying to escape through that emotion? It’s a simple question but sometimes it takes some deep digging to reveal the wisdom that is buried inside of it and that is where the help of a coach comes in handy.
Coaching has been scientifically proven to stimulate new thinking and coaching reveals the unknown unknowns. Those things you don’t know you don’t know, your blind spot. If you want to explore this wisdom more, feel free to reach out to me. I can connect you with a coach that can work with you. I might even be available myself.
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