Crying! There’s No Crying At Work

Dealing with feelings and emotions is always awkward, emotional, and uncomfortable.

Our culture and the culture of most organizations condition us to avoid such discussions.

Leaders lack training on how to have these discussions.

Your HR people and attorneys are likely cautioning you about the privacy implications surrounding these discussions.

Leaders typically wait for performance to slip and then manage the struggling person’s performance for all these reasons.

By doing so, we are like doctors who only treat the symptoms of an underlying issue and never resolve the actual cause.

But the questions remain: do your people want to talk about things like emotional well-being, emotional trauma, and grief in the workplace?

And if they do, how do we know that?

In a recent Respect For People webinar sponsored by Lean Horizons president and Danaher Business System architect Mark DeLuzio, I share the headlines surrounding this topic. The answer is a resounding YES.

Your people do want to be able to talk about their feelings at work.  Yuck!

Anthony Casablanca

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