How do our emotions affect us at work?

Properly managing emotions can go a long way toward making progress at work.

Work is the place where we spend a large part of our daily lives and where we can feel the most intense and frequent emotions. We tend to understand that these emotions can be detrimental to us in a professional sense, or that our work or relationships within the company can be affected. or that our work or relationships within the company are not worthwhile because they are tinged by stress, anxiety, conflict and insecurity.

However, the problem is not in those emotions... but in how we understand and manage those emotions.

The relationship between our emotions and work

The relationship that exists between emotions and work is maximal, since during every second of the day we feel emotions and they do not make you feel one way or another, but they condition your relationships, your motivation, and also the decisions you make.

The mistake we have made in relation to emotions is to ignore them.. This comes from an old, mechanical and Cartesian view of emotions. We think that emotions are our "irrational" part and that we should ignore them. However, the opposite is true. Emotions are always there, influencing your interpretations, decisions, and every human action and relationship.

In this article I am going to tell you how they affect your emotions in your work and above all how to have them on your side.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.

The root of everything is in our emotional side

In the last 10 years I have accompanied as a psychologist and coach people from up to 5 different countries in their processes of change and personal growth. In cases where people wanted to grow as professionals or to achieve success in their ventures, we discovered that emotions were the key to everything.

What is the reason? It's clear: the key to feeling good at work, growing and improving, is not sales techniques, following advice, non-stop training or following a guru... but developing the key personal skills that help you as a person and a professional. These are skills such as assertive communication, productivity, how you relate to others, and, of course, the great pillar of your personal development.and of course, the big pillar is emotion management. That is why I developed Empoderamientohumano.com, an online personal development school 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 bottom of an institution, organization or company 2. you work at the bottom of an institution, organization or company.

In these cases it is common to feel too much stress and conflict with both the work team and the users or clients, as well as difficulties in time management and planning. It is difficult to grow and feel good in stressful environments.

However, although any environment can always be better, the big key is how you manage your emotions. What does it depend on whether you know how to manage your time well or not? On how you understand and manage your emotions, and on what does it depend whether you make certain decisions or not? On how you understand those emotions (whether they paralyze you or make you take action). What does the quality of your personal relationships depend on? From your ability to manage conflicts, to know how to put yourself in the other person's shoes and connect with that person (again, emotions are the key).

2. You work in a position of responsibility

In this case the importance of emotions is paramount, because the greater the responsibility, it is often more difficult to manage anger when the results are not what we want or the team does not perform as required.

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 confidence to be able to connect better is the big key.

3. You work alone and you want to undertake a project.

In this case, the key emotion is fear. Not only is there a lot of fear of taking action, but there is a lot of fear of trying different actions that lead to different results.

In turn, fear leads us to distrust, to not generating 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 condition your outcome. But as I said 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 to to 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 empoderamientohumano.com, the online personal development school where I accompany people to live their change processes, especially related to their emotions management. Having them on your side will be the most valuable decision you can make.