VULNERABILITY is THE KEY TO STRENGTH

Those who can communicate their emotions at work are the leaders of the future, says Alice Olins

I love Brené Brown’s explanation of vulnerability in her book Daring Greatly and it’s something I come back to often. In it, she says: ‘Vulnerability isn’t good or bad… vulnerability is the core of all emotions and feelings. To feel is to be vulnerable. To believe vulnerability is weakness is to believe that feeling is weakness.’ Yet, as women, we have become conditioned to turn the volume down on our feelings, especially in the workplace, and female emotions have somehow come to equal instability or, even worse, ineptitude. Or at least that’s what we’ve been told. The irony, of course, is that the opposite is true: people who can share their vulnerability at work will be the leaders of the future because being open with how you feel isn’t a weakness,…

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Red UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2021

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