If it’s hard for you to name your feelings and needs, it’ll be a real challenge to give effective feedback, mediate conflicts, cultivate trust, and problem solve efficiently, particularly during intense conversations or arguments. The main culprits for challenges during disagreements – whether you’re at work or home – are judgments. When judgments take over, and you lose sight of your feelings […]
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Feelings and Needs Lists – Printable Version Feelings and EQ credit: Earl J. Wagner – Copyright © 2014-present Google, Inc. – Inspiration from lists by NYCNVC
EQ Basics: How Big is Your “Feelings” Range?
Sooner or later, stuff around “emotional intelligence” inevitably comes up in my work with individual clients and teams. How could it not? Most people pay attention to five emotions, max: happy, sad, mad, good and bad. Out of a huge range of possibilities, this is all we track (and good/bad aren’t even feelings, they’re thoughts). So I have […]