love kindness compassion they’re not
words you hear in the workplace very
often are they I’m sure you’d be
ridiculed laughter even if you used
words like that at work I know I would
have been laughed at in my previous
corporate working life and yet to be
kind loving and compassionate is surely
what it is to be human having emotions
is what makes us uniquely human and we
need them in order to survive we cannot
so why aren’t we taught how to use
emotion in the workplace why are we
taught to leave our personal lives
outside of the office why are we taught
to take emotion out of our business
dealings and why are we taught to
effectively behave like a robot without
emotion is it any wonder that there is a
mental health epidemic sweeping our
workforce the Mental Health Foundation
quotes that nearly 15% of the UK
workforce has already experienced mental
ill-health this year my albeit taboo
view is that companies solely put profit
as their priority and I get it
businesses are there to make money they
need to be profitable I get that I run a
business
I need it to make money I need it to be
profitable but does that mean that we
can’t be kind loving and compassionate
I wonder how much more profitable
businesses could be if they put their
people and their emotional needs first I
wonder how much more of a motivated
committed loyal inspired workforce there
would be if people were put first it’s
long been said that a happy workforce is
a productive workforce and I’m not
talking free fruit on-site gyms funky
breakout areas private health care or
even sleep pods these are all just
sticking-plaster benefits for an
intrinsically out-of-date working
culture a culture that encourages
competition between individuals a
culture that hears people bragging about
the long hours they’re working I’m sure
you’ve heard people say maybe even
yourself I’ve done a 60 hour week this
week or I’ve done a six-day week for the
last month three months even a culture
all in the name of profit when people
and their emotions are put first they
feel heard cared for valued loved yes
loved and they feel like they belong to
something bigger than themselves and
their work hard to maintain that feeling
then the free fruit the on-site gyms in
the private health care become the
valued norm not a sticking-plaster
benefit companies who are focusing their
energies on profit alone are effectively
cultivating a culture of survival of the
fittest where every woman and every man
is for her and himself and who can blame
them who
how’s their back but this perpetuates a
culture of stress exhaustion anger
frustration blame anxiety depression low
self-esteem pessimism how likely is it
that accompanying with these emotions at
its core is going to survive and be
worryingly a huge proportion of our
workforce work in exactly a company like
that I certainly used to I’m sure some
of you have done perhaps still do so
many of my private clients come to me
and say Danny I just want to work in a
business that’s fun
harmonious I don’t want to go to work
and be stressed and deal with the office
politics and feel the constant point of
the knife between my shoulder blades I
want a job that’s fun I want to go to
work where there’s a true sense of
work/life balance where there is a sense
of belonging community sounds like a
pretty nice place to work doesn’t it so
what if businesses were more like
communities where every member of the
community feels loved trusted cared for
valued the old model of teams needs to
change
and I want to demonstrate this with you
right now just take a moment think about
the two words community and team think
about the words the language and the
arguably
community conjures up words and emotions
like belonging togetherness trust and a
sense of support care love arguably teen
conjures up words and emotions like
togetherness yes maybe motivation
teamwork hard work performance but
actually as a team doesn’t matter how
hard you work and how well you perform
together as a team if the company is not
profitable every possibility that you’ll
be facing redundancy the old model of
teams needs to change people need to
feel like they’re members of the
community and have that sense of
belonging and business is without love
kindness compassion and trust at their
very core feel like business is built on
a house of cards to me surely destined
for failure and businesses who are
focusing their energies solely on profit
don’t see alternatives to redundancies
and streamlining not because they don’t
want to who wants to go to work and make
their staff redundant it’s because their
sole focus is on profit and they can’t
see any other way it’s time we changed
so businesses that come from a place of
strength abundance even perform well
better even so what if we looked at
in the 1950s a chiropractor called dr.
George bid Hart came up with a muscle
test process or applied
kinesiology and in this test he
determined that when we use words like
love strength and compassion our muscles
are at their strongest and put up the
greatest resistance when under pressure
it also determined that when we use
words like anger hatred stress and fear
that our muscles are at their weakest
and they put up little and no resistance
under pressure businesses with love
kindness and compassion at their core
are strong and they have Trust at their
very core imagine how profitable and
successful businesses could be with such
infallible strengths at their very core
it’s time the everyday language love
kindness and compassion becomes part of
our everyday language in the workplace
if businesses want to grow survive and
be the huge success that they deserve to
be surely they need to be loving kind
and compassionate in their business
dealings people before profit it’s time
now that we put the emotion back in
business thank you you
words you hear in the workplace very
often are they I’m sure you’d be
ridiculed laughter even if you used
words like that at work I know I would
have been laughed at in my previous
corporate working life and yet to be
kind loving and compassionate is surely
what it is to be human having emotions
is what makes us uniquely human and we
need them in order to survive we cannot
so why aren’t we taught how to use
emotion in the workplace why are we
taught to leave our personal lives
outside of the office why are we taught
to take emotion out of our business
dealings and why are we taught to
effectively behave like a robot without
emotion is it any wonder that there is a
mental health epidemic sweeping our
workforce the Mental Health Foundation
quotes that nearly 15% of the UK
workforce has already experienced mental
ill-health this year my albeit taboo
view is that companies solely put profit
as their priority and I get it
businesses are there to make money they
need to be profitable I get that I run a
business
I need it to make money I need it to be
profitable but does that mean that we
can’t be kind loving and compassionate
I wonder how much more profitable
businesses could be if they put their
people and their emotional needs first I
wonder how much more of a motivated
committed loyal inspired workforce there
would be if people were put first it’s
long been said that a happy workforce is
a productive workforce and I’m not
talking free fruit on-site gyms funky
breakout areas private health care or
even sleep pods these are all just
sticking-plaster benefits for an
intrinsically out-of-date working
culture a culture that encourages
competition between individuals a
culture that hears people bragging about
the long hours they’re working I’m sure
you’ve heard people say maybe even
yourself I’ve done a 60 hour week this
week or I’ve done a six-day week for the
last month three months even a culture
all in the name of profit when people
and their emotions are put first they
feel heard cared for valued loved yes
loved and they feel like they belong to
something bigger than themselves and
their work hard to maintain that feeling
then the free fruit the on-site gyms in
the private health care become the
valued norm not a sticking-plaster
benefit companies who are focusing their
energies on profit alone are effectively
cultivating a culture of survival of the
fittest where every woman and every man
is for her and himself and who can blame
them who
how’s their back but this perpetuates a
culture of stress exhaustion anger
frustration blame anxiety depression low
self-esteem pessimism how likely is it
that accompanying with these emotions at
its core is going to survive and be
worryingly a huge proportion of our
workforce work in exactly a company like
that I certainly used to I’m sure some
of you have done perhaps still do so
many of my private clients come to me
and say Danny I just want to work in a
business that’s fun
harmonious I don’t want to go to work
and be stressed and deal with the office
politics and feel the constant point of
the knife between my shoulder blades I
want a job that’s fun I want to go to
work where there’s a true sense of
work/life balance where there is a sense
of belonging community sounds like a
pretty nice place to work doesn’t it so
what if businesses were more like
communities where every member of the
community feels loved trusted cared for
valued the old model of teams needs to
change
and I want to demonstrate this with you
right now just take a moment think about
the two words community and team think
about the words the language and the
arguably
community conjures up words and emotions
like belonging togetherness trust and a
sense of support care love arguably teen
conjures up words and emotions like
togetherness yes maybe motivation
teamwork hard work performance but
actually as a team doesn’t matter how
hard you work and how well you perform
together as a team if the company is not
profitable every possibility that you’ll
be facing redundancy the old model of
teams needs to change people need to
feel like they’re members of the
community and have that sense of
belonging and business is without love
kindness compassion and trust at their
very core feel like business is built on
a house of cards to me surely destined
for failure and businesses who are
focusing their energies solely on profit
don’t see alternatives to redundancies
and streamlining not because they don’t
want to who wants to go to work and make
their staff redundant it’s because their
sole focus is on profit and they can’t
see any other way it’s time we changed
so businesses that come from a place of
strength abundance even perform well
better even so what if we looked at
in the 1950s a chiropractor called dr.
George bid Hart came up with a muscle
test process or applied
kinesiology and in this test he
determined that when we use words like
love strength and compassion our muscles
are at their strongest and put up the
greatest resistance when under pressure
it also determined that when we use
words like anger hatred stress and fear
that our muscles are at their weakest
and they put up little and no resistance
under pressure businesses with love
kindness and compassion at their core
are strong and they have Trust at their
very core imagine how profitable and
successful businesses could be with such
infallible strengths at their very core
it’s time the everyday language love
kindness and compassion becomes part of
our everyday language in the workplace
if businesses want to grow survive and
be the huge success that they deserve to
be surely they need to be loving kind
and compassionate in their business
dealings people before profit it’s time
now that we put the emotion back in
business thank you you
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