The prevailing wisdom says that difficult thoughts and feelings have no place at the office: Executives, and particularly leaders, should be either stoic or cheerful they must project confidence and damp down any negativity bubbling up inside them. Is your response going to serve your organization in the long term and take you toward being the leader you most want to be? So imagine how many unspoken ones course through our minds. Resultsetextractor one to many exampleĪct on your values. They may be signaling that something important is at stake. Respond to your ideas and emotions with an open attitude, paying attention and letting yourself experience them. Labeling allows you to see them as transient sources of data that may or may not prove helpful.Īccept them. Audiolivro INTELIGÊNCIA EMOCIONAL, de DANIEL GOLEMAN. The authors offer four practices adapted from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT designed to help readers do the same. David and Congleton have worked with leaders in various industries to build a critical skill they call emotional agility, which enables people to approach their inner experiences in a mindful, values-driven, and productive way rather than buying into or trying to suppress them. All healthy human beings have an inner stream of thoughts and feelings that include criticism, doubt, and fear. The prevailing wisdom says that negative thoughts and feelings have no place at the office.
