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Recognizing career grief

Recognizing career grief

- [Instructor] Emotional intelligence is a skill that's critical for thriving in your career. Embedded in the name, but often left out of career conversations, is the importance of emotions. Our career challenges can evoke emotions. Our typical response to emotions is to hide the ones that we think are bad. But emotions aren't good or bad, they're data. When we leverage our emotions, we increase our self and social awareness, implement solutions with more authenticity, and unleash the power of transformational change. So it's okay to recognize, reflect, and respond through our emotions. This builds our emotional intelligence, and helps us to navigate career challenges. So what is career grief? First, let's expand how we think about grief. Most of the time we only associate grief with the death of a loved one. But this narrow lens can keep us from recognizing moments in our lives when we grieve other kinds of loss.…

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