The (partial) cluelessness of (some) corporate advisors (1 - 2 min. read)

My day job comes with a requirement to do a certain amount of ongoing professional development - in my own time, which is another form of indirect discrimination against those with home duties, including women. Some of these, however, seem like they could be interesting, like the one I just to on emotional intelligence. 

It had some good stuff in it, mostly culturally misappropriated ideas (like mindfulness was) that were being misused to advocate for a view that erred perilously close to victim blaming. 

It is good to understand the emotions one feels and that others feel at work, but employees ARE under the control of employers - the job market is too parlous for anyone spouting the "but they can leave and go elsewhere" line of BS to be viewed as anything but incompetent or a malicious liar (or perhaps a psychopath?). 

There was some good stuff on constructive communication, and even on low level ways of avoiding being manipulated, but the response on whether any data (the presentation was full of stereotypical male and female examples) was available on non-binary people was so clueless that I wondered if the person had some conscious or unconscious transphobia.

The solution to many emotional problems in the workplace is for a human-based and human-focused society, one that doesn't put "the market" and "the company" above - or even equal with - people. That would include genuinely fair pay (not a Putinesque  doublespeak distortion of fair), reasonable staffing levels, and adequate staff.

And give emotional intelligence back to those who refuse to have anything to do with toxic positivity, genuinely care about people, and don't want people using emotional intelligence at the expense of a better world.