From the course: Using Emotions to Leverage and Accelerate Change: A Guide for Leaders
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Recognizing how your energy impacts your organization
From the course: Using Emotions to Leverage and Accelerate Change: A Guide for Leaders
Recognizing how your energy impacts your organization
- Emotional contagion is the phenomenon of having one person's emotions and related behaviors directly trigger similar emotions and behaviors in other people. As a leader, your emotional energy is felt by every individual you encounter. When going through change, this becomes even more enhanced, simply because of the very emotional nature of change. When that energy is triggered within another, a domino effect begins, and your energy begins to travel throughout the entire organization. So the question becomes, what is the energy you choose to contribute? I can remember one experience where I transferred into a business my parent company had recently acquired. I was charged with leading the integration of parent company tools and processes into the technical community. In those first few weeks, what stands out most is the energy in that office. It just felt heavy, tense. In meetings, it was easy to feel who was…
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