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Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue is a Lot More Complex Than You Think

Lead Change Blog

Combining my expertise in emotional and social intelligence with research on the specific problems of working from home during COVID, I’ve untangled these two concepts into a series of factors: Deprivation of our basic human need for meaning and purpose. Deprivation of our basic human need for connection.

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Another Way You Can Get Recognition Right

Lead Change Blog

The process involved her receiving a check, a certificate and getting her picture taken with the head honcho. The need to be seen is very human. Just check David Rock’s work about human needs in social interactions. My boss called each of us to tell us what the process would be on notification day.

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Defeating Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue

Lead Change Blog

Educate your employees about the deprivations of needs. We want to connect with each other, but our emotions just don’t process little squares on a screen in a video conference as truly connecting, compared to in-person meetings. Cultivate a sense of meaning in your employees. Cultivate mutual connections using native virtual formats.

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Building Your Legacy: What metrics are important?

Lead Change Blog

But those aren’t competitive sports; they’re vital human needs. An improved condition: We should create improvement in others, in the environment, in processes. No one would argue that we want to increase the speed of EMTs reaching patients in crisis, or rescue attempts in natural disasters. Neither can I.

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The 4 Stages Of Psychological Safety

The Horizons Tracker

The 4 stages of psychological safety is a universal pattern that reflects the natural progression of human needs in social settings. Inclusion safety satisfies the basic human need to connect and belong. Learner safety satisfies the basic human need to learn and grow. Stage 1: Inclusion Safety.

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Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence

QAspire

Leaders have a choice of either noticing those emotions intentionally and intervening constructively when needed or just ignore the emotions to focus only on the outcomes and the process.

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Overriding Our Instincts in Order to Become Caring Leaders

Leading Blog

The human brain is a miracle of survival and, from a psychological and evolutionary perspective, this makes sense. We have a human need for steadiness and predictability. Recipes are, by definition, detailed processes that allow us to get to a final product — and voila, mission accomplished. We like consistency.