As leaders, being confronted by emotion is part of the job. Often, the actions we take as leaders can contribute to or generate that emotion. Emotional displays can be genuine or they can be manufactured as a defense against whatever it is you are bringing. Performance management is a particular venue in which a blowup […]
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No Crying in Baseball (But what about the office?) – Part I
posted by Jeffrey Thomason
As leaders, there is no situation more commonplace than dealing with the range of emotions exhibited by your team. All leaders train and educate themselves to produce, through their actions, those emotions that are “desired” (excitement, happiness, pride, joy, gratitude, interest, hope, inspiration). However, all leaders are confronted on a consistent basis with the negative results of […]