How to Embrace Emotions at Work

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Workplace is a challenging place and managing your emotions at work is very important. Do you feel weak or are you able to manage your emotions pretty well to have a healthy work environment?

Let us watch the video to learn some tips on how we can overcome overwhelming or sometimes unnecessary emotions at work.

Vocabulary Questions:

  1. What does “to let sth/sb run wild” mean, “If you suddenly let your feelings run wild at work and give people far more information than they bargained for, you make everyone around you uncomfortable and you also undermine yourself.”? Use this expression in a sentence.
  2. What does “lurid” mean, “[ It’s ] great to say you weren’t feeling well last night — you don’t need to go into every lurid detail about how you got reacquainted with your half-digested dinner.”? Use this word in a sentence.
  3. What does “read the room” mean, “And finally, read the room and provide a path forward.”? Use this expression in a sentence.

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is selective vulnerability? Talk about the four ways on how to practice this.
  2. Do you agree or disagree that “emotions don’t belong at work”?
  3. Are you an under-emoter or an over-emoter? Cite reasons why.
  4. Talk about some relatable stories about when your emotions (both good and bad) got the best of you at work.
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2 replies on “How to Embrace Emotions at Work”

Selective vulnerability is the key way to bringing my authentic self to work, being balanced between under-emoter and over-emoter. I can practice selective vulnerability in four ways:
1 flagging my feelings
2 identifying what´s going on
3 putting my self in other person shoes
4 reading the room

I think that emotions don´t belong to work. Emotions belong to every person

I don´t feel good beeing an over-emoter. It´s for me a weakness. I try to be a balanced person and to be conscious about my feelings.

Talk about some relatable stories about when your emotions (both good and bad) got the best of you at work.
If you read the feelings of people at work, you can help them. This is a good way to treat people as human beings. On the other hand, treating with dificult/toxic people can produce bad feelings and sometimes big confronations between coworkers.

Thank you very much for your efforts writing your answers to our questions.

Look at some other ways you can say this sentence It´s for me a weakness:

It’s a weakness for me. or I think it’s a weakness.

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