How to learn to manage your emotions at work?

You must learn to control negative emotions and share positive ones to manage them. The tips and strategies are not exhaustive and may not work for everyone.

It's about keeping what feels wise to you and adapting it to your professional position to establish your own strategies. For personalised support, Group 3'C offers professional coaching.

Identifying an emotion is the first step to regulating it. Welcome it to recognise and understand it, not repress it. We must name and measure our feelings with these questions:

A few of the best ways to regulate your emotions are to let off steam, play a sport, meditate, sleep, suppress your feelings, and listen to music. We will propose a Gross (2007) model of emotional regulation tools to directly affect emotional states.

Avoiding or approaching emotional places, settings, or individuals. The preventative technique controls emotional triggers. Instead of talking to a customer because you're afraid you'll explode with fury at their behaviour, delegate the conversation to a coworker to avoid damaging your day.

This method alters our situation to reduce its emotional impact. For instance, you must lead an important meeting in a room where a colleague experienced a terrible work accident. You would struggle to finish it in this room due to intense emotions. You should request a location change to change your condition.

During an emotional occasion. It entails focusing on non-emotional things to avoid emotions. A client may criticise an unfamiliar working method. However, this client is crucial to project success.

You're getting annoyed. Instead of telling him the truth and risking your work, focus on your surroundings (papers, wall colour, outside atmosphere, etc.). You'll be calmer and conclude the meeting smoothly.

For instance, your colleague yawns as you explain a crucial topic. This indication may be boredom, which makes you upset because you're discussing an important topic. Ask what's wrong and explain that his child is sick and he hasn't slept because of him.

Business should consider emotions to create a healthy, responsive workplace. Supporting emotional expression and regulation enhances job happiness, motivation, creativity, and productivity.

Managers who pay attention to emotions at work boost team productivity and commitment. Indeed, it's about shifting focus from one's own goals to those of one's team.

Communication of emotions includes coherence, acknowledgment, resolving differences, celebrating success, and encouraging failure. Sharing your feelings as a boss is considered considerate of your staff. Thus, team communication of emotions motivates.

Self-awareness means understanding one's feelings. To turn feelings into acts, one must observe them and give them meaning. This skill helps you control negative emotions.

Being conscious of your emotions will help you not react when someone at work abuses you.

Self-regulation involves changing one's emotions to fit the situation. It's learning to control rage and despair.

Motivation is voluntary goal-oriented movement. Using your emotions to attain your goals lets you work hard and lead projects.

It involves adopting others' vision and building strong relationships. This cognitive process helps us identify context and reasoning behind a reaction at work.

Social skills facilitate communication with others, such as listening, initiating conversations, and expressing gratitude. It helps us communicate, manage ourselves, express our feelings, and act.

Communication, leadership, change management, and team mobilisation are crucial in work.

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