In this Slideshare deck Human Workplace CEO and Founder Liz Ryan explains what an Energetic Mismatch is, and why we should be talking about energy at work instead of writing people up or firing them when something goes wrong.

1. What Is an Energetic Mismatch?
When a person and a job are not a good fit
By Liz Ryan, CEO & Founder
Human Workplace

2. What is energy?
We know how it feels when we’re excited
and happy. We know how it feels to be
frustrated or angry. At work, we don’t talk
about how things feel. We’ve been trained
not to talk about that stuff.

3. We all have energy fields
around us!
We can tell when the energy on a team is
good. We can tell when it’s bad. Sometimes
our energy doesn’t mesh with our co-
worker’s energy, or your boss’s energy.

4. When a job and a person don’t mesh, that
doesn’t make anyone the Bad Guy.
There are no Bad Guys!
Human Workplace is a movement to reinvent work
for people. We teach people how to tell the truth
about Sticky Human Topics like energy fields at work.
When the energy is wrong between a person and a
job or a leader, no one has to get written up or put
on probation.
We can acknowledge that there’s an Energetic
Mismatch, and treat everyone involved with dignity
and compassion.

5. Work is broken
We don’t know how to talk about
energy at work. When a person and his
or her job look like a poor match, we
go straight to “This person isn’t doing
the job. Let’s begin Corrective Action.”
This is exactly the wrong thing to do, of
course. We should be looking at the
energy fields around, not looking for
ways to put people on probation and
terminate them!

6. We hire adults
We can say to our manager “I don’t feel good
about the fit between me and this job. What
do you think?”
Your gut doesn’t lie. If you are getting signals,
then other people are thinking the same
things you are.
Jump to the Human Workplace blog to see a
blog post about what to say to your manager
if you feel they’re planning to let you go.

7. Human Workplace is a publishing,
coaching and consulting firm. Our
mission is to reinvent work for people
Our new 12-week virtual coaching
groups launch on Saturday, August
23rd.
Learn more about them at
http://humanworkplace.com/get-
ahead-career/
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