Humans have emotions, and emotions can help us create awesome things. They can also feel overwhelming, absorb huge amount of energy and time and generally get in the way. In our hybrid and remote world, it’s important to learn how to work with our emotions in different ways.

Working with humans, and learning how to use the ever-changing technology will be highly valued as the world continues to change with advances in AI and automation. 7/10 CEOs worry their employees lack the right skills for the future. But the skills required to do our jobs are expected to change by 65% in the next 6 years (Atvis, 2024)So, even the CEOs who worry now, don’t know what the specific technical skills are that we’ll need to learn so they can’t train for those skills now to prepare for the future.

Successful people and organisations will learn how to work with the new technologies and adapt to new environments with other humans, which prompts all sorts of emotions.

Reflective Practice is an awesome… practice to help you build your learning culture, and change how individuals deal with their emotions in a work context. Emotions go from something repressed, or managed in 1:1s with managers or gossip, to useful data the team can use to find better solutions.

It’s tricky to do well, but its formula is simple.

• What happened?

• How did it feel?

• What can we do with that?