Rehumanising WorkÂ
Hi Jeremy here! Welcome to another edition of my monthly newsletter. This goes out to over 50,000 leaders worldwide, connected by our shared passion for crafting emotional cultures and creating more emotionally aware leaders and teams.
In your 1:2:1 this month, you'll discover:
- 1 ECD Activity:Â Navigating Emotions in Leadership
- 2 pieces of content to inspire: When your feelings conflict with your leadership role +Â an AI Teach Us How to Become More Emotionally Intelligent?
- 1 Tool/Activity Worth Testing:Â Beautiful Business Questions
- ECDTV Episode: Incorporating Emotions in Leadership
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1 ECDÂ
Activity: To testÂ
This reflective activity is designed to invite you to explore your leadership journey, identifying and learning from the emotions that have most profoundly influenced your approach and style as a leader.
Step 1: Select the Black Card (Desired Feeling)
- Look through the black cards, which represent desired feelings, and choose the one that resonates most with your leadership journey.
- This emotion should be one that you associate with positive leadership experiences and aspire to embody in your role.
Step 2: Share a Story About Your Selected Black Card
- Reflect on a particular moment or a series of events where this positive emotion played a pivotal role in your leadership.
- Discuss how embodying this emotion influenced your decision-making, relationship-building, and overall effectiveness as a leader.
- Consider how this emotion has guided you through challenges and successes, shaping your leadership philosophy.
Step 3: Select the White Card (Undesired Feeling)
- Now, sift through the white cards, which represent feelings you might want to avoid but acknowledge as part of your experience.
- Choose an emotion that has offered you significant insights into your leadership style and personal growth.
Step 4: Share a Story About Your Selected White Card
- Reflect on moments when this undesired emotion surfaced in your leadership journey.
- Discuss when and how this emotion emerged and the impact it had on you and your team.
- Explain how confronting and managing this emotion has taught you valuable lessons about resilience, empathy, self-awareness, and the complexities of leadership.
This activity encourages a holistic view of emotional experiences in leadership, acknowledging both the strengths and vulnerabilities that shape effective and authentic leadership styles.
2Â Pieces of Content:
To inspire
Here are two pieces of content that I hope will help you see the world slightly differently and provoke you to do the work that matters to humanise the workplace.Â
by Dina Denham Smith.
In today's busy world, the heartfelt efforts you put into understanding and managing your emotions as a leader might not always get noticed. But remember, these efforts are incredibly important. They help you care for your team genuinely, even on tough days. It's essential, though, that you look after yourself too. This article shares four easy-to-follow tips to help you when your feelings and what's expected of you don't quite match up. These tips aim to protect your well-being and keep you performing at your best. Learn how you can lead with kindness and stay strong, no matter what comes your way.
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2. Can AI Teach Us How to Become More Emotionally Intelligent?
by Daniel Limon and Bryan Plaster. Success in management isn't just about being smart or skilled in your field; it's also about understanding and handling emotions well. Emotional intelligence is crucial, just like any technical ability, because it plays a big role in achieving success, both for individuals and teams. Nowadays, companies are turning to AI technologies that boost the emotional smarts of their teams, aiding them in becoming better at connecting and communicating. AI has the potential to improve our awareness of our own emotions and assist in managing relationships at work effectively. By improving our emotional intelligence and communication, we become more effective, productive, and understanding colleagues.
1 Tool:Â To PlayÂ
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Beautiful Business Conversations.
200 prompts. Boundless connections. Designed by the House of Beautiful Business, this card game is here to help you build meaningful connections in the workplace and beyond. There are no strict rules and no player limits, no winners and no losers. We invite you to simply pull a card and spark a beautiful conversation.
Check it out here >
Something I've been pondering...
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"Embrace your Unpleasant Emotions. What I've learned in the past two weeks is that it's possible for intense, unpleasant emotions, to lead to intense pleasant emotions when we have the labels to express and share them. It's not easy. It's supposed to be hard. But we can make it easier with the right tools. In the midst of what feels like an AI revolution, more than ever, people are yearning for an affective revolution. Our emotions are after all what help us make sense of the world around us."
ECDTV.
New ways. New ideas. New answers. New perspectives. Watch the latest ECDTV videos here...
Jeremy highlights the significance of emotions in organisational change, pushing leaders to prioritise emotional impact alongside functional aspects. Learn how a game-based approach can guide leaders in crafting the emotional journey of their teams during transitions. Dive deeper into the balance between emotions and cognition in this insightful short.
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