Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan How to Harness Your Emotions at Work for the Better with Mollie West Duffy
In episode five of this Better@Work episode, we have a fun and super insightful chat about emotions at work with Mollie West Duffy. Molly and her co-collaborator Liz Fosslien are two of my favourite people to follow for their nuggets of wisdoms and illustrations. Mollie believes most of us shy away from sharing what we're feeling with colleagues and bosses. She shares her insights and ideas about the new rules of emotions at work including: be less passionate about your job and why your feelings aren't facts. Mollie and I discuss how we can use our emotions at work positively and the benefits it will bring for us and our colleagues.
Mollie is an expert in organizational design, development, and leadership coaching. She previously was an organizational design lead at global innovation firm IDEO. She’s helped advise and coach leaders and founders at companies including Google and LinkedIn. She’s experienced in designing talent processes and systems, as well as organizational structures and behaviours, cultural values, and learning and development programs. She is the co-author with Liz Fosslien of the Wall Street Journal bestseller No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work and now their second book Big Feelings: How To Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay.
This chat with Mollie is great fun, with some amazing thought-provoking takeaways on emotions at work.
Quick episode breakdown:
- Mollie and I discuss treating your emotions as data
- We talk about how we compare ourselves to others, Mollie highlight some of the key ways that comparison can help us increase our happiness and development
- The importance of psychological safety in teams and study from Google which looked at successful teams, with teams that had the highest level of psychological safety being less likely to leave their jobs
- Mollie shared the amazing insight “no one is going to draw your boundaries for you”
- We learn about Cal Newport’s technique “schedule shutdown complete”
- Plus, Mollie and I chat about everything from Elon Musk emotions to the lack of a safety net in the US.
Let’s Take This offline
In our “Let’s take this offline” segment I debrief on Mollie’s key insights with my friend Annette and answer a question from our listener Daniel, who loves his work but is concerned the company’s brand is lacklustre and wont succeed.
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About Mollie
Mollie is an expert in organisational design, development and leadership coaching, having coached leaders at companies such as Google and LinkedIn. Mollie helps organisations become more adaptive, creative, and effective by intentionally designing all aspects
of their organisational structures. She is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book about emotions at work: No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work, and Big Feelings: How To Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
Website https://molliewestduffy.com/about
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