The second skill is feeling description, your ability to name your emotions, and then to let other people know when you completed that task on time. I loved it. I was very pleased. People say they only hear what they haven't done well from their bosses. They don't hear what they've done right? They need behaviorally specific feedback and they need to know, as Blanchard said, how it makes the boss feel is the boss happy or unhappy?
That's important data. For subordinates. If you're going to be an effective leader, you got to tell them. When you think about emotion, you immediately change the activity in your brain if it's an intense emotional moments, the emotional center of your brain if you were in a brain scanner will light up When you think I'm feeling something intense, you already start to shift the activity from the emotional center to the thinking center. If you can identify it that helps. You'll be able then to calm yourself and be clear about your emotion.
This isn't to deny emotion, but rather to be able to understand it and calmly then make decisions and at times do feeling description. I like what you just said. I'm concerned about this. Letting people have that data helps to close gaps. Feeling description,