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“You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by; and, so become yourselves because the past is just a goodbye.” — Crosby, Stills and Nash Teach Your Children<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Emotions in the workplace are natural, normal, expected and complex.<\/p>\n We are full of emotions every day at work.<\/p>\n What we’re going to do with those emotions at work is the big question and will have a huge impact on how we navigate as managers.<\/p>\n It can be a stormy, bumpy ride indeed until we shine a little light here.<\/p>\n We can easily swing from being the knee-jerk emotionally reactive manager to the sterile automaton lifeless manager.<\/p>\n We need something to smooth out the bumps and help us cut the middle ground.<\/p>\n This is what self-coaching does.<\/p>\n It allows us to accept our emotions as valid and worthy of exploration.<\/p>\n Exploration is the key here.<\/p>\n With self-coaching we can lay our thinking and emotions out before us and take a look at them.<\/p>\n Spin them around and look at them from different angles.<\/p>\n Make decisions and move forward.<\/p>\n The key is not to fight our emotions wishing they were not there or that we shouldn’t be having them.<\/p>\n It’s very real emotionally what we go through as managers and our emotions as well as our thoughts are all part of our experience.<\/p>\n But, we’re managers, so we are going to want to work on our self-awareness so we can sort some things out and get a clear perspective before we manage.<\/p>\n We only manage others as well as we manage ourselves.<\/p>\n Self-coaching really helps.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by; and, so become yourselves because the past is just a goodbye.” — Crosby, Stills and Nash Teach Your Children Emotions in the workplace are natural, normal, expected and complex. 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