Category Archives: changing behavior
The Management Model You Can’t Manage Without – Part 1
In his book, Your Brain at Work, author David Rock gave organizational leaders an essential model for understanding human dynamics at work. Forget the “toolkit.” This model is the foundation that holds everything affecting performance in place. Managers, leaders and … Continue reading
Even 5 Minutes of Meditation Can Change the Way You Work
How about 5 minutes a day of rest in 2012? 10 minutes of peace? 15 minutes of renewal? 20 minutes of rejuvenation? You can have it all. Meditation can change the way you work – and change your life … Continue reading
Your Business Needs are Not the Same as Your Personal Needs
“People who are in touch with their needs do not make good slaves.” Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D Needs are basic to life. Everything we feel and do is in service to our needs. In the moment to moment … Continue reading
8 Ways to Decrease Organizational Fear
“The fantasy about organizational life is that people will behave in logical, unemotional and well-organized ways. It’s as though the boxes on the organizational charts are designed to keep the messiness of reality, people and emotions away from work.” Dan … Continue reading
Anxiety & the Quest for Certainty
“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition that impels us to unfold our powers.” Erich Fromm Most of us would agree that whatever we do, we cannot predict the future. Yet, many of us … Continue reading
Collaboration: The Essential Emotions
Successful collaboration is built on a high level of emotional literacy. Without the capacity to generate and sustain certain feelings, our ability to collaborate authentically with others isn’t possible. By the time we reach adulthood, our emotional repertoire has … Continue reading
Envy, Jealousy, Resentment – The “Comparison” Emotions at Work
“Comparing is a trap that permeates our lives, especially if we’re high-need-for-achievement professionals.” Thomas DeLong, Harvard Business Review Working with emotional intelligence in the workplace since the late’90’s, I’ve found there are three emotions that many people don’t like to admit to … Continue reading
Forgiveness at Work – Cleaning our Emotional House
“Forgiveness is a lovely idea until you have someone to forgive.” C.S. Lewis I’ve thought a lot about forgiveness lately. Often when we face life’s major passages, a flood of old thoughts and feelings suddenly reappear. But I … Continue reading
The Power of Beliefs at Work
“The voice in the head tells a story that the body believes in and reacts to. Those reactions are the emotions. The emotions, in turn, feed the energy back to the thoughts that created the emotion in the first … Continue reading
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Fear’s Everywhere: How Are You Managing It?
“Fear does not predict the future: it only tells you that you are afraid. The trick is to recognize the emotion of fear when it emerges, accept it, discover its source and decide what to do with it.” Jay Uhler … Continue reading
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