Tag: psychological-safety
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Tool #7: The Containment Tool
How leaders hold emotion without fixing it One of the hardest things for leaders to learn is that support does not always mean solving. In caring professions like veterinary medicine, leaders are often drawn to the role because they want to help. They want to reduce suffering, make things better, and restore order when things…
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Emotional Unpredictability: The Leadership Red Flag No One Talks About
Leadership conversations in Veterinary Medicine often focus on operational performance. Metrics. Staffing. Efficiency. Client satisfaction. All critical. But there is a quieter leadership variable that influences every one of those outcomes, and it rarely makes it onto dashboards. Emotional predictability. Or more specifically, the absence of it. Because when leadership emotional regulation is inconsistent, the…
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Tool #4: The Repair Tool
Why strong leaders don’t avoid missteps, they repair them No leader gets it right all the time. That’s not a character flaw. It’s a reality of leading humans in high-pressure environments. And yet, one of the most damaging leadership myths is that good leaders shouldn’t need to repair anything. That authority is weakened by apology.…
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