Category: Team Leadership

Negative Emotions

1 QUICK APPROACH TO SHIFT NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

Negative emotions can be challenging to deal with, especially when the events that cause them seem to pile on top of each other. Have you ever been having a great day, but you get a call or email that shifts your mood or energy?

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Negative Emotions

SHIFTING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

Have you ever been having a great day and then a phone call, email, or something happens that shifts you into negative emotions, mood, and energy?  Often people will say, “Just shake it off.” We feel ashamed and guilty to be “fixating” on something and struggling to “let it go” as if we should be able to snap out of it and move on, unaffected by our emotions.

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Strengths-based team

HOW TO HAVE A STRENGTHS-BASED TEAM

If you want to have a strengths-based team, you must be willing to have tough conversations and work through differences. Generally, people do not like conflict and avoid it. This is part of the breakdown of teams and culture.

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Communication

5 STEPS TO CLEAR COMMUNICATION

Communication is challenging. We can argue, “No it isn’t, I communicate clearly, it is others who do not understand.”

That is exactly why communication is challenging. We tend to think the world thinks like us and when they don’t, we feel frustrated and often BLAME others for their lack of understanding.

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