How to Deal With
Managing Emotions at Work
We are creatures of emotions and it is difficult for us, as human beings to live, to not have feelings. While it is often healthy to touch our emotions and deal with them instead of pushing them inside, there are situations in which we need to control our emotions very well. Managing Emotion at the workplace is a great example of the situations we are talking about here. Emotional outbursts at work could stem directly from work-related matters or from personal stressors being carried into work. Managing our emotions both negative and positive at work is often seen as an indicator of our level of professionalism.
Common negative emotions experienced at work are frustration, worry, anger, dislike, and unhappiness. While it’s important to manage these negative emotions at the workplace, certain positive emotions can also be a hindering factor in our work as they can result in a decreased focus and state of “euphoria” that is not conducive to work.
The most common emotions at work
The most common positive and negative emotions at work:
- Anxious
- Satisfied
- Comfortable
- Frustrated
- Enthusiastic
- Stressed
Strategies for managing emotions at work
Following are a few strategies to help manage emotions at workplace:
Compartmentalization.
Divorce as the name implies isolation and separation of personal and professional life. One of the best ways to differentiate is to use our commute as a tool. One can use one’s travel time to go to work to let go of thoughts related to personal health and to practice creating a “store” of mind to “lock” problems. This process of separation also helps to avoid the shedding of work-related stresses in personal life.
Relaxation Techniques
Something as simple as deep breathing and counting can help a person control his emotions at work. Knowing this process does not mean that one will be able to see a complete change in the oppressive response and take a deep breath or count to ten to stay calm. This requires careful and continuous practice. Ensuring that we practice deep breathing and counting daily even when there are no stressors will improve our chances of using these methods if necessary.
Knowing Our Triggers
One of the most important and effective ways to manage emotions at the workplace is to avoid or deal with the causes. But the first step in that knowledge is to know what our real causes are. This can be achieved by considering yourself. Charging critical events where our emotions get the best of us, and then following the steps that go back to each of those events, helps us identify common themes of what our causes are. Once we have decided what anyone is giving us, we can work to fix the problem or sometimes even avoid it.
Alternate Release
Some liberties refer to directing our emotional outbursts into something productive or relaxing. For example, exercise. If a particular incident occurs in a state where we want to get rid of everything, we can catch you and take you out of the gym. This is not just a good channel to express our emotions but also to help us produce. Other examples for another channel include diary writing and doodling. Writing down our emotions, doing doodling, or drawing helps make it easier to get out healthy.
Emotional control not only contributes to the external presence or perception of people from a distance but also helps to ultimately focus and prevent our emotions from blurring our judgment. So, use these strategies to manage your emotions as these play an important role at the workplace.
