How to build a critical skill- emotional agility for leadership?
Sixteen thousand—that’s how many words we speak, on average, each day. So imagine how many unspoken ones course through our minds. Most of them are not facts but evaluations and judgments entwined with emotions—some positive and helpful, others negative and less so. All healthy human beings have an inner stream of thoughts and feelings that include criticism, doubt, and fear and it's prevailing to feel so at your workplace too. David and Congleton have worked with leaders in various industries to build a critical skill they call #emotionalagility , 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. The authors offer four practices designed to help readers do the same: Recognize your patterns: You have to realize that you’re stuck before you can initiate change. Label your thoughts and emotions: Labeling allows you to see them as transient sources of data that may or may...