Liz Fosslien believes “the future of work is emotional.” The Amys revisit our 2020 conversation with her and fellow organizational consultant Mollie West Duffy about the good that can come from being vulnerable with colleagues, and Fosslien returns to reassess where the line between vulnerability and oversharing is today.
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Amy B.
Do you ever see Liz Fosseling's drawings about feelings that she posts on LinkedIn?
I've actually seen them in the books she's written with Molly West Duffy.
Yeah, those books are such a lifeline of support for me.
Not just for difficult situations at work, but anything about feelings.
I actually bought my daughter their page a day calendar for Christmas last year and we refer to it a lot.
There's actually one that's labeled Leadership at the top and it shows a person walking on a tightrope.
And on one side it says sharing too much and on the other side it says sharing too little.
I love that one.
And there's one that really speaks to me is all about despair.
It's from their book Big Feelings and it shows like a, it looks like a ping pong ball sized circle that says despair and next to it a dot that is like 110 the size that's labeled despair shared with people who get it.
And then next to those two, a softball sized dot that says despair shared with people who don't get it.
Yeah, that really.
That landed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's also like, Liz does a lot of these bar charts and they're very simple.
And there's one where the Y axis is how big a problem feels.
And there's a very large bar when it says when you shoulder it alone.