# Chapter 266

Connect with your employees emotionally. - Masterminds

Unfortunately most just need to connect period. Most don’t know our families and situations well enough to connect emotionally. Most just want our families and situations to behave well enough that it doesn’t affect our work, our families and situations are just “factors” and “events” in the background that have little importance to the peeps up the food chain. My parents taught me that you show up for work every day no matter what is happening in your life and no matter how you feel. This view is such a statistical minority as to be non-existent. I try to surround myself with people like this and consequently I have few friends.

Lets be honest, what happens at home and in life is emotional and the vast majority of us bring that emotional-ness to work with us. It overlaps and impacts what we are trying to accomplished or are being paid to accomplish, all day long. These are called feelings and they are real. We have them and we bring them with us wherever we go. That includes the workspace, to our teams, to our networks and beyond. People are less compartmentalized than in the past I think. This is certainly true of me and most of those around me.

So yeah, connecting with your peeps is really important and if you can connect emotionally - mentally feel what walking in each of their individual shoes may be like and what the experience may be like for them, and how it impacts them - then all the better. If you can do this, then you will likely find production taking a big upswing.