Grief has entered the workplace. Here’s what leaders can do
Up until recently, most leaders believed grief belonged outside the workplace. Most other forms of loss went unnamed entirely, and it was back to business as usual.
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Up until recently, most leaders believed grief belonged outside the workplace.
Most other forms of loss went unnamed entirely, and it was back to business as usual.
Today's leaders are guiding teams through layoffs, restructures, AI disruption, and the erosion of stability that employees once relied on.
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Up until recently, most leaders believed grief belonged outside the workplace. Most other forms of loss went unnamed entirely, and it was back to business as usual. Today's leaders are guiding teams through layoffs, restructures, AI disruption, and the erosion of stability that employees once relied on.
How it works
- People are grieving careers they thought they would have, workplace cultures they no longer recognize, and professional identities threatened by automation.
- Skeptics might argue that the workplace is not the place to process emotions— that work is for work, and therapy is for therapy.
- In my work as an executive leadership coach and advi...
- Most organizations do not call this grief—and even more still reward people for pretending they're unaffected—but employees feel it anyway, and so do the leaders charged with holding everything together.
- Leadership does not pause for grief, but grief will absolutely pause your business.
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Control estimates that unsupported grief costs U.S. companies up to $225.8 billion annually in lost productivity.
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