Anxiety, frustration, and anger are all real emotions we experience at work.If you feel the same way a few days later, that’s a good indication it’s a relevant emotion. Relevant emotions typically last longer than irrelevant emotions.How do you feel about living in that new city? Are you excited or is there a sense of dread when you consider leaving your friends and starting over? The emotion you experience is a signal about what would be the best decision. Relevant emotions arise when you imagine what would happen if you picked one option over another. Do you have a positive or negative feeling? For example, if you consider taking a new job that requires relocating. Do you focus on logic or go with your gut? We should pay attention to our feelings when weighing our options and making decisions.When we can decode our emotions, we can leverage them to help us make better decisions.Liz and Mollie’s book is full of insight into how to integrate emotions at work. When we are unable to productively process our feelings, bad things tend to occur. While we should work to manage emotional outbursts and maintain a professional demeanor, that does not mean we have to check our emotions at the door. So when humans come to work, they bring their emotions, along with their other talents. Last time I checked, humans tend to have emotions. It’s odd that we somehow forget that people bring their whole selves to the workplace.
There’s always been a bit of a taboo to talk about feelings at work. I received two more books from The Next Big Idea Club and want to share a couple of my favorite takeaways from No Hard Feelings – the secret power of embracing emotions at work, by Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy.
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