| |NOVEMBER 20248CIOReviewLEADERSHIP AND EMOTIONS By Kylie Livingston, Vice President of Talent and Organizational Development, Rally HouseMany leaders either attempt to hide their emotions or lack managing their emotions, the best leaders tune into their emotions and know how to effectively lead with them. Emotions identify where one's passion is and what one deeply cares about. Emotions also impact your work and can highly influence those around you, direct and indirect reports. How leaders conduct themselves through environments that heightens one's emotions influences the organization, teams and individuals and how they transcend. As a leader, it's ok to show concern and worry and sadness, leaders are human too, and acknowledgement of this will help everyone through the period of challenges. To avoid becoming disoriented and caught up in the minutia of challenges both personally and professionally leaders can make use of practical behaviors, and have the opportunity to influence others to do the same. Before leaders go to their peers and teams, they must start with themselves. When leaders manage their own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, they are better able to communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Self-management of emotions demonstrates healthy habits to those around them as well. Practical behaviors to manage emotions and alleviate stress to avoid becoming disoriented include:·Keep routine behaviors and know when to step back. Routine bedtimes and day to day activities all support consistency in your life and influence levels of stress, providing a sense of control in areas where other areas one may feel there is not a lot of control in the midst of the emotional situation.·Do things that support physical and mental health. Exercise, eating healthy and good rest support the energy needed to sustain through emotional times and have proven to help sustain a positive outlook.·Keep things in perspective. This is where resilience plays a huge role. Keeping things in perspective and being realistically optimistic, acknowledging that the situation(s) are temporary. ·Have a learners mindset. Leaders should not have to have all the answers, this is why we hire great people! This is a great Kylie Livingston IN MY OPINIONIN MY OPINIONIN MY OPINIONIN MY OPINION
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