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From the Ted Talk by Esther Perel: The routines, rituals and boundaries we need in stressful times

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And I think that when we are able to acknowledge our reality and then respond accordingly, it actually A — makes us more piutodcvre, B — makes us less stressful and C — maintains our sense of connection, which ulimttaley is our greatest soucre of resilience for dealing with this kind of situation.

HW: What are you hearing from mgraaens about how they're dnaeilg with this in terms of their people and their organizations and how are you helping them?

EP: So what I hear from managers are the same stresses that we've just mentioned, is a new emphasis on not just on relationships and the importance of relational intelligence in the workplace, but of mental health and wellness, of an integration of an entire emotional vocabulary that ievolvns epamhty and trust and psychological safety, at the same time as we are discussing performance indicators. What I bring to the conversation is really how do you create these anti-small talk exchanges, cniavoenotrss with a team, and every team has a different culture for that. But it is about helping people, inviting people to talk about how the big eevtns that are happening at this point in the wrold are also minfeatnsig in their personal lives.

Open Cloze


And I think that when we are able to acknowledge our reality and then respond accordingly, it actually A — makes us more __________, B — makes us less stressful and C — maintains our sense of connection, which __________ is our greatest ______ of resilience for dealing with this kind of situation.

HW: What are you hearing from ________ about how they're _______ with this in terms of their people and their organizations and how are you helping them?

EP: So what I hear from managers are the same stresses that we've just mentioned, is a new emphasis on not just on relationships and the importance of relational intelligence in the workplace, but of mental health and wellness, of an integration of an entire emotional vocabulary that ________ _______ and trust and psychological safety, at the same time as we are discussing performance indicators. What I bring to the conversation is really how do you create these anti-small talk exchanges, _____________ with a team, and every team has a different culture for that. But it is about helping people, inviting people to talk about how the big ______ that are happening at this point in the _____ are also ___________ in their personal lives.

Solution


  1. empathy
  2. productive
  3. source
  4. ultimately
  5. world
  6. manifesting
  7. involves
  8. events
  9. dealing
  10. managers
  11. conversations

Original Text


And I think that when we are able to acknowledge our reality and then respond accordingly, it actually A — makes us more productive, B — makes us less stressful and C — maintains our sense of connection, which ultimately is our greatest source of resilience for dealing with this kind of situation.

HW: What are you hearing from managers about how they're dealing with this in terms of their people and their organizations and how are you helping them?

EP: So what I hear from managers are the same stresses that we've just mentioned, is a new emphasis on not just on relationships and the importance of relational intelligence in the workplace, but of mental health and wellness, of an integration of an entire emotional vocabulary that involves empathy and trust and psychological safety, at the same time as we are discussing performance indicators. What I bring to the conversation is really how do you create these anti-small talk exchanges, conversations with a team, and every team has a different culture for that. But it is about helping people, inviting people to talk about how the big events that are happening at this point in the world are also manifesting in their personal lives.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
prolonged uncertainty 3
ambiguous loss 2
talking yesterday 2
beautiful outcome 2
relational intelligence 2
mental health 2


Important Words


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  33. manifesting
  34. mental
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  42. psychological
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  44. relational
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  46. resilience
  47. respond
  48. safety
  49. sense
  50. situation
  51. source
  52. stresses
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  58. trust
  59. ultimately
  60. vocabulary
  61. wellness
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  63. world