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Sep 2023
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How to Handle Your Emotions at Work | Li...

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These seven rules illustrate a middle path between completely stifling your emotions and bringing your whole self to the office.

Liz Fosslien is an expert on emotions at work and is also on the leadership team at Atlassian's Team Anywhere and previously served as the head of content and communications at Humu. She has been featured by TED, The Economist, Good Morning America, The New York Times, and NPR.

Mollie West Duffy is also the head of Learning and Development at Lattice, and was previously an Organizational Design Lead at global innovation firm IDEO, and a research associate for the Dean of Harvard Business School. She has worked with companies of all sizes on organizational development, leadership development, and workplace culture.

Liz and Mollie are the co-authors of No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work and Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay

In this episode we talk about:

  • Why not acknowledging your emotions can lead to worse outcomes
  • How to understand the data that comes from emotions
  • The importance of psychological safety
  • And how to recognize burnout before it’s too late

Full Shownotes:https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/Liz-Fosslien-and-Mollie-West-Duffy

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