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The future of work:
Will your organization
just survive…or thrive?
Emergy’s most popular and effective work-life training Emotional Agency™ Program now available as an online course for your entire work community: flexible online learning, applied exercises and peer coaching to reinforce learning.
The challenges
The biggest challenges organizations are facing today is a combination of megatrends:
- There’s a low sense of belonging and reduced work engagement
- An ever-increasing feeling of loneliness and isolation
- There is a fierce competition for the right talent
- Employees ask themselves: why am I here and what is my purpose for being?
If you are a CEO or a CHRO, you are very familiar with these challenges…and you are not alone.
Studies show that these challenges are universal and affect every organization on the planet. And they are all trying to figure out how to solve it. But you cannot solve anything unless you know why you have the problem in the first place.
The reason for all these challenges are unrecognized negative emotions.
These emotions are caused by unmet psychological needs and real workplace challenges that are not dealt with. Emotions impact your employees every single day. And if the employees don’t have the ability to deal with their negative emotions, it will inevitably lead to intense frustration.
If that frustration goes unanswered, it leads to cynicism, lack of motivation and low engagement in the workplace. Also known as quiet quitting. If this happens, your employees WILL look for a new job.
Attracting AND retaining the best talent becomes almost impossible.
Even if they don’t leave, their capacity to innovate, solve problems and reach business targets will diminish greatly, simply because neither they nor the organization know how to deal with negative emotions and what is causing them.
Do we realize how this negative spiral affects our organizations and their results? Do we understand how much potential is lost because we don’t utilize the power of emotions?
The solution
The solution is deceptively simple. We need to understand the role of emotions: how they affect people at all levels of your organization as well as your business performance. And we do that by using something called Emotional Agency.
Emotional Agency is the awareness and understanding of emotions in activities and interactions in the workplace.
While most companies focus on hard facts like operating models, KPI’s and goal setting, the fact remains that even with the best systems in place, emotions still run people. While those hard facts are important, they won’t work without emotions.
Essentially we need to change the mindset from managing employees to leading human beings.
“Emotions are the fuel that boost people to make things happen
– or not.”
“Emotions are the fuel that boost people to make things happen – or not.”
How we transform your people and organization
Emergy Emotional Climate Audit®
We need to analyze the emotional climate of your workplace:
- What emotions are ruling your workplace at the moment.
- How they impact everyone's well-being, work engagement, psychological safety and the level of emotional agency.
- Emergy Emotional Climate Audit® that can be used for teams or a whole organization.
- Comprehensive report that reveals elements affecting your team’s or organization’s emotional climate.
- 1 hour walkthrough to discuss the audit results with our Emergy Emotional Climate Audit™ certified expert.
- Instructions on how to discuss the results within your team or organization to identify and choose the focus areas for development.
- Practical guide on how to engage your team members in selecting and implementing the development initiatives in to their daily practices.
Emergy Emotional Agency™ Program
We give you and your employees concrete tools and practical step-by-step processes:
- How to deal with challenging situations
- How to awaken authentic joy and use the power of positive emotions at work.
These processes are linked to real work life examples and deal with situations that occur in every organization on the planet, every single day.
- Kick-off webinar (45 min).
- 7 online training modules á 1 h consisting of easy-to-read text sections + 27 training videos.
- Exercises in between the modules that are applicable to everyday life and and support the learning.
- Guided peer sparring exercises between modules.
- Optional case-clinics á 1 h (online workshops) to enhance the use of the training tools and skills in everyday situations.
- Emergy Emotional Climate Audit® that can be used for teams or a whole organization.
- Comprehensive report that reveals elements affecting your team’s or organization’s emotional climate.
- 1 hour walkthrough to discuss the audit results with our Emergy Emotional Climate Audit® certified expert.
- Instructions on how to discuss the results within your team or organization to identify and choose the focus areas for development.
- Practical guide on how to engage your team members in selecting and implementing the development initiatives in to their daily practices.
- Kick-off webinar (45 min).
- 7 online training modules á 1 h consisting of easy-to-read text sections + 27 training videos.
- Exercises in between the modules that are applicable to everyday life and and support the learning.
- Guided peer sparring exercises between modules.
- Optional case-clinics á 1 h (online workshops) to enhance the use of the training tools and skills in everyday situations.
By combining hard facts and emotions you create an organization that will not only survive, but thrive.
Tangible benefits:
“Emotions are very powerful and affect all aspects of our life. When we are trained in emotional skills, we are more mature as individuals and organization, more resilient, more caring, better able to solve difficult problems and live happy life.”
“It has helped me to see other’s point of view in situations that frustrate me at work. Due to the training I now tend to stop more often to ponder why are others behaving in the way they behave and how to better understand and help them rather than getting annoyed at the situation.”
Do you want to know more about
how Emotional Agency can
transform your organization?
Book a 20 min demo and we’ll show you!
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Emergy Emotional Agency™ Program
Key learnings and insights according to our participants:
“Listening, observing, understanding, and valuing emotions – those of one self and those of others. Learning to take micro breaks to wind down and not take bad emotions / feelings from one meeting to the next.”
“More ways to handle situations where there seems to be tensions.”
“Remembering the basic needs (the 7 set) of everyone, remembering that the mood you enter any meeting (on-site or virtual) will affect the others & the athmosphere of the whole meeting.”
“Feelings belong to the workplace. It’s part of everyday life and one can learn more about oneself and their own behaviors as well as the feelings and behaviors of colleagues. This training has made me be more mindful of others’ feelings and how I can affect them.”
“To have a better understanding of what emotions are and how they affect us (and our ability to work with other people) in both subtle and not so subtle ways. Also to be better able to relate to and emphatise with other people.”
We implemented a massive organizational change and by learning and applying emotional skills in the change project, our employee satisfaction has increased, the sick leaves have decreased and our customer satisfaction has increased significantly.
Emergy’s training gave us a huge amount of tools to support the cultural change. The insight from the management team have been a tangible help in getting the development work on the right track. We tried a number of different trainings to suppor the change, but Emergy® training was in its own class.
Based on our experience with the training to our management team, we wanted to expand the training impacts and offered the course for our entire staff.
Frequently Asked Questions
Aren’t emotions a bit too abstract to deal with?
Our Emotional Agency tools are very concrete and practical and they create tangible results. Everything we do is backed up by science. We have ongoing cooperation with top universities where the topic is continuously studied and reviewed. Read more about our latest research program on Emotional Agency at work.
How do you know this works?
The principles of Emotional Agency are already used by hundreds of organizations and thousands of people, with truly amazing results.
What amazing results?
Just recently one of our client with 250 employees was able to cut down their costs related to sick leaves by 33 % in just 4 months, which in their case meant over 1 million USD savings.
This will probably affect our day to day work?
The online program allows for a flexible way for all to engage in the training. The disruption to daily work is truly minimal.
Our organization is special, does it work for us?
50 employees or 5000 employees, the process and work is the same.
Why should our employees care about this?
Not only is there a huge benefit for the organization, but also the individual. They receive actionable steps on how to deal with emotions and tough situations at work. They will see results from day 1. It’s a win-win situation.
We still need to focus on hard facts like operating models and KPI’s, is that a problem?
Not at all. Our approach will actually make use of those hard facts. The employees will feel excitement not indifference.
Our organization is already doing quite well, why would we need this?
Emotional Agency will not only take an organization from OK to good, but also from good to great.
What’s the difference between Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Agency?
Emotional intelligence is the ability to act in an emotionally intelligent manner with oneself and with others. Emotional intelligence is usually only assessed at the individual level, without regard to the group dynamic.
Emotional agency is the awareness, understanding and consideration of emotions in activities, interactions and organizational practices. It is worth noting that emotional agency is a competence that CAN be developed – and as the term agency indicates, the whole core of it lies in active participation – learning and continuous development being the key elements of it.
What is Emotional Agency?
Researchers from the best Universities in Finland together with the Emergy team got together and brought the concepts of agency and emotional intelligence together, creating a completely new and innovative concept: Emotional Agency. Emotional Agency takes into account both the individual level and the interpersonal (group) level. It is a completely new way to think about workplace emotional intelligence.
The first article of this groundbreaking research on the concept of emotional agency has just been published: Emotional Agency at work: The Development and Validation of a Measure.
Still not convinced?
Book a 20 min demo and we’ll show you the power of Emotional Agency!