Your happiness at work (as in life) is largely dependent upon how well you manage your own emotions and the emotions of those around you. To achieve this, you must cultivate your "street smarts," or "emotional intelligence," advises Rob Scher, president of the performance consulting firm, the Scher Group. Here's how:
Express your feelings and thoughts with confidence but without needing to "win" the discussion.
Recognize and understand what you are feeling in any given situation and why you feel that way.
Understand and appreciate the feelings of others, even when you feel quite differently.
Rather than complain about problems, isolate them and generate an effective solution.
Allow yourself to enjoy your work, the presence of your colleagues and your job's ongoing challenges.
Realistically appreciate your strengths while accepting your inevitable limitations.
Follow pursuits that lead to the development of your abilities and talents.
Let yourself be self-directed and self-controlled in your thinking and actions.
Nobody is truly happy if they're being mean to those around them.
Foster and maintain emotional closeness through meaningful conversations.
Differentiate between your emotional experience of reality and objective reality itself.
Adjust your emotions and behavior to changing situations and conditions.
Maintain a positive attitude even when things don't go as you'd planned or hoped.
Learn to withstand adverse events, stressful situations, and strong emotions.
Regulate your emotions and resist the temptation to act in haste.
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