🔥 Are you too emotional? In Community #66

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“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” – Kahlil Gibran

Last week, when I wrote about the need to be consistent toward goals – and the ways to get there – I described a method to manifest your own reality with focused commitment.

But what happens when what we manifest or the way we go about it is consistently misunderstood?

Kahlil Gibran, the writer and artist, described strength through tenderness and kindness – traits that are often instead associated with weakness.

These traits are also often associated more with women than men, especially in relationships, both personal and professional. 

At work, they manifest themselves in conversations of leadership viability, specifically a leader’s ability to sustain and maintain a position of influence and effectiveness over time, ensuring the long-term success of their team or organization.

As we reach the middle of Women’s History Month during an uncertain time in our external environment, this conversation continues to come up.

The research has been clear: emotions shape men and women’s leadership in different ways. What may surprise some is that negative behavior driven by emotions is more likely to manifest in men rather than in women.

As it turns out, hope and anxiety compete as two primary emotions that leaders experience during uncertain times. Both hope and anxiety affect perceptions of control, which then influence behavior in challenging situations.

During uncertain times, women’s leadership behavior is more consistent, more community-minded, and less affected by their emotions in negative ways, whereas men’s leadership behaviors are more negative, in spite of the fact that women may be experiencing higher levels of anxiety.

Ultimately, it’s a reminder that emotional intelligence and the strength that comes with it isn’t just about the way you feel – it’s about how you react and the actions you take because of it.

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Fahad