Tom KrieglsteinFounder, Global Keynote Speaker, Swift Kick Leadership · Founder and Award-Winning Keynote Speaker at Swift Kick Leadership

Your emotional state impacts those around you. #Leadership #emotions

Name: Your emotional state impacts those around you. #Leadership #emotions
Uploaded: 2023-11-10T22:53:23+00:00
Duration: 22 s
Channel: Tom Krieglstein
Description: In this brief segment, Tom Krieglstein explains the concept of emotional contagion—the tendency for the strongest emotions in a room to spread to others…

10 Nov 2023 · 0 min

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In this brief segment, Tom Krieglstein explains the concept of emotional contagion—the tendency for the strongest emotions in a room to spread to others. He shares a personal story where his own intense negativity caused the people he was trying to recruit to become disengaged and unwilling to participate. The anecdote illustrates how a leader’s emotional state can directly influence group morale and outcomes, and serves as a cautionary reminder to be mindful of one’s mood when attempting to motivate or recruit others.

There's a thing called emotional contagion where the person with the strongest emotions are going to influence everyone else in that room. And I showed up with such negativity that no one wanted to be around me. In fact, I caused them to be negative, too. That's frustrating because I wanted to recruit a bunch of people, but my state at that moment caused them to not participate. Now, I know some of you are like, what state?