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Is Your Boss Your Emotional Mirror?

Deidré Wallace
5 min readAug 18, 2022

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Is Your Boss Your Emotional Mirror?

Over the last few years, we all learnt a few lessons about others and also ourselves, particularly via the Covid pandemic — and that people: bosses and colleagues can mirror our issues. Let me explain:

Covid has nudged us, to become more aware of the people around us, the community we live in and indeed, of all those who made our lives easier during lockdown. Also, people just seemed kinder and more helpful. And as we move away from Covid, what we individually or as communities do next, will be interesting. But to really engage with how we want to live our lives henceforth, will require a deeper self-reflection and also a realisation, that we are all mere humans trying to cope with the many changes that are being asked of us.

And for those of you still working, you may find the following quick video chat and notes below interesting. It addresses the need for compassion and also a need for a deeper understanding of ourselves and our bosses in the work place:

Addressing one angle in our lives that may need a rethink is the following:
I was once again, invited by Robyn Odegaard to attend her Quick Hits chat called, “How can an executive team identify and address absentee leadership?
This is the link which you have to save and copy in your own time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6zrKMrhUA

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Deidré Wallace
Deidré Wallace

Written by Deidré Wallace

As a Relationship/Corporate Therapist, I help highly effective people understand exactly how and why we choose our relationships: www.relationshipknowledge.com

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