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You might wonder what FORGIVENESS has to do with Business? 

Forgiveness is indeed in some fields of Business Coaching but as well as in Team Trainings/ Team Coaching a key action.

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And as simple as it is - never forget: We interact with other individuals! 

Is there an example to "forgiveness in business context" under your TOP3? - We guess so.

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Not always we have to forgive others but ourselves.
Sometimes to forgive ourselves is the hardest exercise.

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If we interact with many other people at work the likelihood that we
need "forgiveness" is high!
It is nearly impossible that everyone in our environment knows our trigger, our boundaries  and/or individual emotional constitution, means it´s more a matter of time till someone is at least accidentally come in our way. To prevent that in our business life, companies implemented behavioral guidelines like corporate values, professional behavior at work and guiding principals and other regulations what all is the written version of our corporate culture. But conflicts are unavoidable. - We are humans.

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When we forgive we give the major impact is that we give someone the possibility to press the "delete-button" on your personal keyboard. We give a chance for a "white paper", leaving the past behind and move forward. Depending on the initial issue this can be an exhausting process what needs a good portion on inner strength.

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In General we tend to value the "giving" more than the "taking". In this case here, we immediately think the "taking part" is easy. Reality is that there are people, who are not good in "receiving or taking" and depending on the initial matter/issue and even after an act of forgiveness, the feeling of "guilt", "shame" or "not good enough" is a burden, what takes time to let go off.

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The concept of "giving & taking" is based on the motivation to work on a harmonic co-existence, a reparation or improvement of the situation of 2 people - in most cases. 
But nevertheless it is possible to practice "forgiving" also in a 1 person set up, for example if the other person is not "available".

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In both ways if there are more than 1 party involved or just 1 party, forgiving makes sense in order to close out a troubling chapter, let unsolved conflicts go and balance your emotions, for example.

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Forgiving in Business Context like f.e. in matters of a team conflict or step over personal boundaries in a work relationship can have a different level of "emotional impact" compared to the process of "forgiveness" in close private relationships or in case of "self - forgiving". In the private sector - the closer the relationship to the "other party" (what can be you too) the more impactful the initial situation/issue can be.

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But also in business context we have questions & concerns not just to "how to forgive" but also what's the outcome and effect. Which questions do you have in mind?

In business the topic of "forgiveness" it is nothing what we name that way in our daily operations. We have many other phrases and often it is just one hidden influencing factor. 

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Did we inspire you? - Or have we been able to give you a short impulse for reflection?
Share your thoughts with us & give us feedback. We would be glad.


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The quote says "forgiveness" is not changing the past BUT when we forgive, we slightly "over-paint" the past picture, right? So we add or change some colors.
I wonder if we look back after years and under consideration, that we really have forgiven, and see that "changed" colored picture: Did we may change the past? - retrospectively?

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Also in Business Life: We all are just humans... With human feelings, needs, desires, problems, emotions and struggles.

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