For anyone who has grown up with volatile caregivers, you may have had the experience that you were always on guard, waiting to see if they could keep you safe. This phenomenon also happens in the home.
In a work context, this affects things such as employee satisfaction, burnout, and teamwork thus impacting financial performance, turnover, and absenteeism. This is known as “emotional contagion”-when people in power dictate the mood of everyone around them. The more down the leader, the worse the team performed.
The more upbeat the leader, the more productive the team.
In a study involving simulated teams, she found that the mood of the team was directly impacted by the mood of the leader. Sigal Barsade, an award-winning researcher from The Wharton School, examines how emotions impact organizational culture. Not only does this competency impact our mental and physical well-being, but it’s vital for maintaining trusting and productive relationships. Create the conditions for others to contribute their best effort and ideas.Engender more positive interactions than negative ones.Engage in meaningful and productive conflict.Stay focused and agile in stressful situations.When we are in Emotional Self-Control, we can: In plain words: It means we keep our $%!t together no matter how intense our feelings. One of four self-management competencies, it refers to our ability to stay calm, clear, and collected in the face of distressing emotions and disruptive impulses. In Daniel Goleman’s framework of Emotional Intelligence, the goal is to ‘Self-Regulate’ and to exhibit ‘Emotional Self-Control’. Learning to manage our responses to strong emotions is a natural part of being human. Our results are immediately relevant to improve the efficacy of social distancing guidelines in the COVID-19 response.When was the last time you “flew off the handle?” The last time you had an overwhelmingly strong reaction and responded in a way you regretted?Įveryone has experienced this-being overcome with emotions such as frustration, sadness, fear, stress, hurt, or rage- feeling something so strongly that you lose the ability to respond with calm and forethought. In contrast, individuals high in self-control adhered more to the guidelines without perceiving them as more or less difficult however, self-control moderated the effect of difficulty on adherence. Specifically, individuals high in boredom perceived social distancing as more difficult, which in turn reduced their adherence (i.e., a mediated effect). The results showed that both traits were important predictors of adherence but the underlying mechanisms differed. In a high-powered study ( N = 895), we tested direct and indirect effects of boredom and self-control on adherence. Here, we investigate sources of individual variation in adhering to social distancing guidelines. However, its effectiveness hinges on adherence by individuals who face substantial burdens from the required behavioral restrictions. Social distancing during the coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is crucial to reduce the spread of the virus.