How To Masterfully Manage Your Emotions
A five-step guide to keeping your cool during stressful moments
At one point or another, we’ve all felt totally irritated while at work: You pull an all-nighter on a project that then gets scrapped, a client criticizes your team for no apparent reason or your co-worker shows up late for a meeting again, dumping all the prep work on you.
These office aggravations can make your blood boil. Your focus is immediately hijacked from the important task at hand. Instead, your mind goes into fight-or-flight mode and you become reactionary; not thinking clearly, blaming others or beating yourself up for getting upset. In this state, you’re prone to poor judgments and saying things you may regret later.
It’s perfectly natural to experience a wide range of emotions in the workplace — including anger. Negative emotions are bound to come up on the job just as they do in our personal lives — and that’s not a bad thing.
Learning to productively communicate your emotions is key to boosting your emotional intelligence, which can make you a better leader and boost success across the board. In fact, getting fired up can motivate you and give you more focus to solve the problem at hand.
