Did you know that energy, thoughts, ideas and feelings can jump from one person to another? Sounds strange I know, but recent research indicates that this is a bigger problem than you can imagine. The question is, are you transferring your thoughts to them, or are they transferring theirs to you? This is an important distinction for all leaders…
Tag: Projection
One little known aspect of leadership is projection. This is where some team members will set the leader up as a pseudo parent and then project all their unresolved feelings (with their parents) onto the leader!
You know this is happening when team members begin to act like children by competing for attention, are jealous of each other, etc. They start responding to the leader with a level of feelings that are out of place.
Productivity goes down and upsets become more common.
The definition of Psychic is: 1. Relating to the human mind. 2. Outside the sphere of scientific knowledge. The definition of Projection is: 1. The act or process of protruding. 2. The projecting of an image or picture. 3. The unconscious ascription of a personal thought, feeling or impulse to somebody else, especially a thought or feeling that would be considered undesirable.
So a Psychic Projection is a mental or emotional image that is consciously or unconsciously projected onto another person or group of people. Are you aware of what you are projecting onto others, and what others are projecting onto you?