Leaders are often expected to control emotions, embody assertiveness, detachment, and autonomy, and be results-driven and resilient in highly stressful situations. However, this approach sometimes ...

In today’s high-pressure workplaces, emotions are omnipresent—from quiet frustration over a missed deadline to visible tension during a difficult meeting. Often, these emotional undercurrents stem not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kathy Miller Perkins, Ph.D. covers purpose-driven leaders and careers Picture a leader stepping into a conference space, ...

Mental health challenges in the workplace are getting worse, not better. Employees’ mental well-being took a dramatic dip during the Covid pandemic and is still at risk due to ongoing stressors such ...

Disappointment, frustration, anger — these are just some of the negative emotions you are liable to feel at some point at work. When you experience an intense undesirable emotion, you might choose to ...

I’ve been reading a lot recently about how we are “addicted” to our emotions. I hadn’t thought of emotions that way—as something one could become addicted to. But it's an interesting concept. We tend ...

Despite decades of research proving their value at work, emotions remain one of the most undervalued—and misunderstood—resources available to leaders. Too many leaders still believe that emotions ...

Checking in on your own emotions also can be beneficial. Although managers might be caught off guard by displays of emotion at work, they shouldn’t ignore or dismiss them, particularly amid the events ...

Once upon a time, it was considered poor form to reveal much, if anything, about yourself at work. Being friends with your colleagues was unusual, ‘personal’ chat by the water cooler was deemed ...

Love is in the air in the workplace, but it's not always the romantic kind.

Everyone has had a bad day at work when they decided not to express what they were truly feeling. New research from the University of Kansas explores how women in the public service sector regulate ...