From the course: Strengthening Your Inner IQ: Align Body and Mind for Optimal Results
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Emotional choice as a leader
From the course: Strengthening Your Inner IQ: Align Body and Mind for Optimal Results
Emotional choice as a leader
- As a leader, when it comes to emotional choice, you ask yourself the question, what energy would serve in this moment? Does this situation, does my team need compassion? Do they need enthusiasm? Do they need joy? Do they need peace? What's required in this moment? Once you have a sense of what serves to move you and your team forward, then you begin to create that first within you. Remember the conversation about the mirror neurons? You generate that within your self. Don't control people, but you begin to influence their state. When it comes to groups of people, you begin to influence one or two members of your group, and it's simply contagious. If you're interested in the topic more fully, look it up. There's all sorts of information out there available about emotional contagion, and so what emotion, what spirit, what sense of energy would serve your group in this situation? Choose it, and then go first to the…
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