From the course: Employee Engagement
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Use your energy
- Have you ever tried to help an employee or a team member get something done right only to have it backfire on you? Chances are their reaction had nothing to do with the logic of the situation and everything to do with how they felt about you, especially if you cross over the line into their emotional space. How you use your emotional energy has a big impact on your ability to inspire and engage others. If your energy is too strong with other people, you'll cause a fight, flight, or freeze response. And it doesn't matter how right or how smart you are. When we're on the emotional stage by ourselves, we own all the emotional energy on it. When I ask people what they feel is fair when somebody else is on that stage, they typically say 50/50. That's our notion of fairness. I get half the cookie and you get half the cookie. And that begs the question, when have you ever been 50/50 on any emotional stage in your entire…
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