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Emotional Agility
February 21, 2017
She who works with her hands is a laborer. She who works with her hands and her head is a craftsman. She who works with her hands and her head and her heart is an artist.
-Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226

"The prevailing wisdom says that negative thoughts and feelings have no place at the office. But that goes against basic biology. All healthy human beings have an inner stream of thoughts and feelings that include criticism, doubt, and fear,” observed Susan David in her Harvard Business Review article, "Emotional Agility." David offers four practices to help people approach their inner experiences in mindful, values driven, and productive ways:

Recognize your patterns. You have to realize you are stuck before you can change.

Label your thoughts and emotions. This allows you to see them as transient sources of data that may or may not prove helpful.

Accept them. Respond with an open attitude…Your emotions may be signaling that something important is at stake.

Act on your values. Is your response going to serve your organization in the long term and take you toward being the leader you most want to be?





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