Mansoor Danish – Handling Suppressed Emotions at Workplace

			Hi everybody. In today's video, we're discussing about the role of leadership in handling suppressed
emotions at workplace. What do I mean by suppressed emotions, when you have people in your
organizations who are not able to vent out their concerns are not able to give feedback or share
their grievances. This leads to the emotions being suppressed at the workplace. This is what I mean
by suppressed emotions where your team are not able to share their concerns, give them feedback, or
complain about some of the issues that they are facing. As a leader, it is your role to address this
matter. Because researchers have shown that suppressed emotions not only impacts the productivity of
		

			an individual, but far more serious is the impact that it has on the mental health of a person and
his physical health. So a person's physical health can get impacted, mental health can be impacted.
Here you have a person who's very normal, he's going to the work he has his lunch on time is
probably working out. He's having healthy food, everything is in order. And yet, he suppresses his
emotion, which leads to diseases within him. And I'm talking about
		

			diseases, which can be very serious at times. People wonder, where did I get this disease from? I
had a very good lifestyle. I used to work out, I used to go to the gym, I used to have healthy food,
I had a good sleeping habit, and yet, you're suffering from all of this, what's the cause for it?
suppressed emotions has a very important role and a very serious role in impacting your health. So
you cannot overlook the issue of suppressed emotion and as a leader, it is your role to be a
shepherd towards your team, towards your organization towards your herd, guide them, take care of
them. How can you do that? I have three steps, which I'm going to share with you today. The first
		

			step is to have and I have mentioned this umpteen number of times, open communication channels,
unless you have open communication channels, unless people are able to come out and share the
concerns openly with you that you will never come to know what's going wrong with that they will
keep on suppressing their concerns and worries, you need to make them feel that the organization is
not going to judge them that the organization is not going to come down hard on them. create that
environment, create a healthy environment where people can share their concerns. The second factor
which I'm going to share with you is the role of empathizing with your people, make them feel heard,
		

			listen to their perspectives. And at time you need to validate their concerns validate their
worries, this is the way people feel important at an organized in any organization. So this allows
for people to come out and share the concerns because they know that the leader empathizes with
them, that the leader has an open communication channels without judging them. Last but not the
least, is the leaders emotional intelligence. As a leader, understand that emotions play a crucial
role in the overall well being of an individual. Whether it is your emotional health, mental health,
personal health, anything. Overall, emotions play a crucial role in the productivity of an
		

			individual. You have everything in order, and still you don't perform well, because you're
emotionally not in order. Because you've suppressed your emotions and over a period of time. This
has led to you becoming toxic at the workplace. So how a leader can address your concern. A leader
has to sit with you. Understand your concerns, validate your concerns, make you feel heard, allow
you to come out and speak and then address your concerns. As a leader sometimes you don't even need
to address a concern. All you need to do is make them feel their heard, validate their worries and
concerns. All of these are going to help address the critical issue of suppressed emotions. I hope
		

			you found this video beneficial. Thank you so much for watching.