People high in this skill of emotional leadership typically …
- Are more “in-tune” with their moods, feelings, and emotions.
- Know which emotions can assist a task at work. For example, Positive moods help with creative tasks. Negative moods assist with analytical, detailed tasks.
- Demonstrate greater awareness of how their emotions may be influencing their behaviors and performance at work.
- Know how their emotional style impacts on work colleagues.
The ability to match emotion will help you to…
UNDERSTAND: How you process emotion with different tasks.
DO:
- Know how mood impacts task thinking – Get the mood/task match.
- Become unconsciously skilled – Use your emotional knowledge proactively
- Tune into my physical sensations – Nervous arousal is your early warning system
DO NOT:
- See emotions as disruptive – Emotions inform and clarify our thinking
- Be ignorant of my emotional style – Know your impact on others
- Become emotionally constipated – Say “sayonara” to stress (negative emotion)!
MEASURE SUCCESS:
You have been successful matching emotion when others see you
- Developing knowledge of how mood impacts on task thinking
- Responding to them consistently, using your emotional knowledge
- Processing your physical sensations to get a balance of good and bad feelings
UNDERSTAND:
The body manages well with an optimal level of stress. Adrenalin generated to the optimal level of stress is needed for alertness and clarity and for being on guard – fight or flight. Pain is any unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. Although pain affects your body’s responsiveness – fight or flight – its overall impact on you lies within. Your perceptions are crucial in pain management. Pain is communicated to others through mood; language, posture, withdrawal, and abuse. Pain is manifested in the body as negative emotion (stress or emotional constipation) with severe physiological effects and can lead to nervous illness.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS:
KNOW HOW YOUR MOOD IMPACTS ON YOUR BODY
