Work is the place where we spend a large part of our daily lives and where we can feel more intense and frequent emotions. We tend to understand that these emotions can harm us in a professional sense or that our work or relationships within the company are not worth it because they are colored by stress, anxiety, conflicts and insecurity.
However, the problem is not in those emotions… but in how we understand and manage those emotions.
The relationship that exists between emotions and work is maximum, since during every second of the day we feel emotions and they do not make you feel one way or another, but rather they condition your relationships, your motivation, and also the decisions you make.
The mistake we have made in relation to emotions is ignoring them This comes from an ancient, mechanical, Cartesian view of emotions. We think that emotions are the “irrational” part of us and that we should ignore them. However, it is quite the opposite. Emotions are always there, influencing your interpretations, decisions, and every human action and relationship.
In this article I am going to tell you how your emotions affect your work and above all how to have them on your side since if you learn to understand and manage them, you will have on your side the greatest tool not only for professional growth but also for well-being.
In the last 10 years I have accompanied people from up to 5 different countries as a psychologist and coach in their processes of change and personal growth. In cases where people wanted to grow as professionals or to achieve success in their endeavors, we discovered that emotions were the key to everything.
What is the reason? It is clear: the key to feeling good in your work, growing and improving, is not sales techniques, following advice, training non-stop or following a guru… but developing the key personal skills that help you as a person and professional. These are skills such as assertive communication, productivity, how you relate to others , and of course, the great pillar is emotion management. That’s why I developed Empoderamientohumano.com, an online personal development school from where I accompany people to live this process.
Emotions in different types of work environments
You may find yourself in one of these three groups:
1. You work at the base of an institution, organization or company
In these cases It is common to feel too much stress and conflict both with the work team and with users or clients, as well as difficulties when managing time and planning. It is difficult to grow and feel good in stressful environments.
However, although every environment can always be better, the big key is how you manage your emotions. What depends on whether you know how to manage your time well or not? How you understand and manage your emotions. What does making some decisions or others depend on? How do you understand those emotions (whether they paralyze you or make you take action). What does the quality of your personal relationships depend on? Your ability to manage conflicts, knowing how to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and connecting with that person (again, emotions are the key).
In this case, the importance of emotions is maximum, since the greater the responsibility, the more difficult it is to manage anger when the results are not what we want or the team does not perform as necessary.
But the problem is not the team, but how to connect with others, transmit security, confidence and leadership and make the team grow In this case, learning to manage anger, fear and trust to be able to connect better is the big key.
3. You work alone and want to start a project
In this case, the key emotion is fear. Not only is there a lot of fear of taking action, but also of trying different actions that lead you to different results.
In turn, fear leads us to distrust, to not generate productive relationships with other people and professionals. There are also problems with insecurity, distrust (towards yourself or others) or anxiety (because everything depends on you).
The possibility of progress begins with oneself
Whatever the case you are in, your emotions determine your result. But as I told you at the beginning of the article, the problem is not your emotions but how you understand and manage them. To get them on your side instead of against you, the tool is live a process of personal change where you discover how you manage your emotions now and learn to manage them in a more functional way, so that your confidence grows, fear does not paralyze you and both your decisions and your productivity and personal relationships improve in an environment of calm and mutual growth.
I invite you to visit empowermenthumano.com, the online personal development school where I accompany people to live their change processes, especially related to their management of emotions. Having them on your side will be the most valuable decision you can make.
