After reviewing our blog, we hope you have gained an enhanced understanding of the emotions experienced during a change process. As leaders, it is important to not view our own emotion or those around us as destructive, but as a natural reaction to the unknown outcomes, as we contemplate the new meaning a certain change will bring forth.
Positive and negative emotions will yield both challenges and stepping stones during any change endeavour. Although while it may be tempting to try to suppress and manage emotions, it extremely beneficial to allow these emotions to surface, to gain understanding into their underlying meaning, and to work with and through them. We trust the strategies provided within this blog will provide you confidence and the necessary tools to successfully strengthen your working relationships with all levels of personnel during a change initiative.
Some food for thought in closing:
1. How do you remain emotionally healthy at work? Home? With family?
2. Can you after reading/viewing our blog identify any personal triggers that enhance positive emotions and help diffuse negative emotions?
