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John Mayer and Peter Salovey termed Emotional Intelligence as: “An emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions and regulating emotions.” 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence Self-Awareness: When we’re self-aware, we know our strengths and weaknesses, as well as how we react to situations…

Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress- such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. (Source: PennState Behrend) Research tells us that resilience helps people become more productive, engaged and satisfied…

Uncertainty refers to situations where human beings lack information about the when, how or why an event occurs. It affects our rational thinking and intensifies our emotions. Sometimes due to uncertainty, positive events feel more positive, but the negative events that make us feel uncertain, feel more negative. It is…

Why would a child feel stressed now? Isn’t this exactly what they always wanted, being at home and not going to school? It’s already been a month to schools being shut due to the lockdown. With everyone being at home, the routines going haywire, there is no boundary between playtime…

Detachment means disconnecting from things that are of less importance, in order to accomplish the heights of what we as human can achieve. In short, it means that you can achieve the greatest heights only by detaching yourself from the things that matter to you at a certain extent by…

If stress in the workplace starts interfering too much with your work performance, health, or personal life, it’s time to start acting on it. You can’t control everything in your work environment, but that doesn’t mean that you are powerless. Understanding one’s personal sense of stress is the critical part…

With Coronavirus (COVID-19) dominating the news cycle, we are all feeling a little overwhelmed. We have become uncertain of the next hour and even while being quarantined at home; we cannot stop worrying about everyone’s health especially our loved ones. There’s an excessive need to keep ourselves up-to-date with the…

Signs of Distress When you feel overwhelmed at work, you start losing self-confidence and become withdrawn and irritated. These are some signs of distress that one may experience during the time of stress at workplace. There are more such signs that show us how stress is taking a toll on…

What is Stress in the Workplace? Stress in the workplace is a harmful, physical and emotional response that occurs when there is a conflict between job demands and the amount of control an employee has over having those demands met. Therefore, high demands and low control over a situation leads…

Whenever a change happens, it affects the organization as a whole. No matter your job, you must learn to adapt to change. Taking charge of the current change in the workplace makes you foresee and plan for new experiences. It is way more powerful and proactive than allowing everything to…