Is there a taboo on talking about feelings at your place of work? Is there a tacit collusion to pretend that none of us are as sentient as in fact we are? What kind of depth happens in the conversations you initiate or the teams you lead?
Shallow work environments are getting left behind in the race to attract the best talent. Dead from the neck down doesn0t cut it anymore.
I was talking with a group of CEOs and senior executives last week about releasing the blocked energy in their most challenging people. I was outlining mentoring tools with which they can help their colleagues develop self-confidence, handle conflict, navigate fears and connect with the feelings of others.
As I went into the last segment0connecting with what another feels0the room went quiet. 0We can0t talk like this at our workplace0 was the refrain.
In our culture, we act as if business is divorced from feeling. Yet, when you ask a group of people to name the most successful leaders they know, every example is someone who knows how to connect with the feelings of the people around them.
Some leading companies are deliberately creating work to be a place where a greater depth of […]
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One of the primary issues that makes life in a stepfamily so challenging is that each person belongs to more than one family constellation: there are biological connections and those created through re-marriage. A 9 y.o. girl who lives with her divorced mother and visits her re-married father whose new wife has two children from her previous marriage is constantly shifting roles. Even when home with her mother, it’s not the intact family she knew through her early years and her relationship with her mother may be altered into part confidante, part daughter. Plus if her mother is in a relationship, that adds to the complexity.
When she visits her father, she has a biological parent relationship mixed with the stepmother relationship as well as relating to the two of them as “parents”. Then there is the shift from being an only child in one home to having stepsiblings in the other - and if one of the stepsibs is older, she has to adjust to a different sibling position. Of course we need to throw in a new set of stepgrandparents and the remainder of that extended family. Now if her mother remarries and if either or both of the […]
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