Managing Your Emotional Response to Workplace Stress

Discover healthy ways to navigate workplace stress by managing your emotions, building your confidence, and regaining a sense of work-life balance in your career.

Introduction

• Why you measure your worth with your work
• Are you too emotionally tied to your work?

1. Separating Work from Your Self-Worth

• Change unhelpful beliefs about work and your identity
• Diversify yourself
• Nourish your personal life
• Develop a new definition of personal success

2. Taking Work Less Personally

• Stop overfunctioning
• Disconnect from work after hours
• See setbacks and failures as opportunities
• Respond to feedback productively
• Manage emotional triggers at work

3. Navigating Specific Scenarios

• Discern mistreatment vs. imposter syndrome
• Advocate for yourself at work
• Strengthen your self-perception after job loss

Conclusion

• Take one step to build these skills