Monday, July 9, 2012

EMOTIONS IN THE WORKPLACE

With stress levels @ an all time high globally, people are becoming mor aware of how unmanaged emotions compromise the quality of their daily living, mental clarity, commitment, productivity, resilience & fulfilment.

Every workplace is an emotional place!                                  

Your emotions affect your teamwork, leadership, decision-making, problem-solving, sales & customer service skills and there are numerous scientific research reports to this effect.

You're either motivated/demotivated at work by ur emotions.

Emotions are unreasonable & thus need your awareness & mastery.

Those little emotions like fear or courage, anger or calmness, worry or confidence, sadness or joy, hatred or love; are the great captains of our business or career life & we obey them without realizing it especially when they're unmastered.

Many at times they make us look stupid, stress us for no reason or frustrate us at work.

You can't grow further or go farther in your career or business relationships than your emotions can take you.

"Every time a grievance is brought up, lost productivity by d employee and those around him/her is about 80 work hours."
- Wilson, B (1991)- U.S Personnel Journal- July 1991, 47-50.

Pennebaker J, a U.S behavioural Psychologist in his book, Opening up, also said; "Experiments wit humans show dat uncontrolld emotional stress leads 2 a shift in thoughts process 2 a superficial, simplistic, unoriginal style of thinkin."

The battle between the world Champion (then), George Foreman and Mohammed Ali was worn by the latter essentially because he gained control over the former's emotions by saying infuriating words to his ears while the fight was on.

Tiger Woods was once asked at an MSNBC interview (June 17, 2001) who he thinks will win a tournament and he replied, "... I think d guys who r really controllin their emotions... are going 2 win; d guy who's controllin his emotions is goin 2 win!"

Anyone or anythin that gains control over your emotions has your life's remote control- to make or break you.

Your career or business goal this week will most likely be won @ d level of emotions.

So, know dat every workplace is an emotional place and people, situations and things tamper wit others emotions knowingly or unknowingly.

With the right emotions, the whole world becomes your local government (your sphere of influence is unlimited) but with the wrong emotions, your local government becomes your world (your sphere of influence is limited 2 your locality).

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