A well known benefit of developing high Emotional Intelligence, especially for managers, is the greater ability to engage and motivate the people they work with.

Another less well known benefit of having great EQ is it can help in effective stress management, or in other words, to bring our stress to a comfortable level. This is the goal of many managers who feel that they are facing too much stress at work.

But how can Emotional Intelligence help in stress management?

There are three ways.

1. Our emotions are good indicators of our stress level. If we are aware of our own emotions, we can identify the signs of unusually high stress earlier. Then we can take steps to relax or to control our emotions, and avoid further stress.

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2. Self-management, the second dimension of Emotional Intelligence, also helps decrease our stress. Self-management is our ability to prevent the waves of our negative emotions from rising too high. An example of self-management is keeping our sadness or anger from reaching an intensity when we can not function and work normally, and when it can even be painful.

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First, stress is amplified by the feeling that we are “losing control”. And then it can be accompanied by guilt…and even more stress.

Secondly, decisions we make during these emotional waves are usually not well-thought and usually bring us more trouble and more stress. For example, decisions we make during an episode of anger are can be expected to result to extra work to repair “collateral damages”.

3. Social awareness, the third dimension GetWord("dimension"); of Emotional Intelligence decreases stress by lessening interpersonal conflicts in the workplace. One serious conflict with one of our team members or peers can eat up a tremendous amount of our energy and result to a lot of stress.

How exactly does better social awareness lead to less conflicts? Social awareness is the ability to recognize emotions in other people, and to handle them resourcefully. In situations when conflicts can easily arise, this skill is particularly useful. By identifying the emotions in our counterpart and then acknowledging these emotions, we can prevent a disagreement from turning into an open personal conflict.

As a conclusion, if you are feeling that you are too stressed, I encourage you to look at how you could develop your Emotional Intelligence further.

There are several other ways to bring your level of stress down, like working on your time management or the way you delegate, or using effective relaxation techniques. But improving your Emotional Intelligence is a way you can count on.

众所周知,开发高情商的好处就是能够提升你鼓励员工更好的工作的能力。

另外一个拥有高情商的好处就是能够帮助你控制压力。换句话说就是能将你的压力控制在一个人可以承受的范围里。这是众多面对工作压力的管理者想要达到的共同目标。

但情商是怎样缓解压力的呢?

有三个方法:

1．我们的感情是我们现阶段所承受压力的一个标志。如果我们能够及早获悉我们自己的感情,就可以早点获知我们现在是否处在高压之中。这样就可以采取措施控制我们的感情,避免遭受到更大的压力。

比如说,对我们的同事,伙伴和其他的人一天发十次的脾气并不意味着我们变的烦躁或无法控制自己的感情。它标示着我们正在遭受到越来越大的压力,我们对事情的容忍能力在下降。

2．自我控制。这是情商控制的第二个方面,也是帮助我们减少压力的一个重要的途径。自我控制是避免是我们的消极感情上升的一个有效途径。自我控制最好的一个例子就是当我们无法正常工作,甚至是感到很痛苦的时候,它能够帮助我们将压力限制在我们可以控制的范围之内。

这种情绪的波动常常会在两个方面加深我们的压力。

首先压力常常因为我们自身感到无法控制而变的更加严重了。随之而来的是有罪恶感和更大的压力。

其次,我们在情绪波动情况下所作出的决定通常都没有经过深思熟虑,它只会给我们带来更多的麻烦和更大的压力。例如,我们在生气时候做出来的决定需要更多的额外工作来弥补。

3．社会意识。这是情商有效缓解压力的第三个方面。它能够缓解我们在工作时与别人产生冲突。与团队里的同事或伙伴发生冲突通常会耗费我们许多的精力导致更大压力的产生。

为什么说良好的社会意识会帮助我们减少人与人之间的冲突呢？首先,社会意识能帮助我们更好的认识他人的感情,更好的处理自身与他人之间的感情。在某种情况下人与人的冲突可能会激化,但我们可以通过提高我们的社会意识来避免冲突的产生。

总而言之,如果你觉得你正在承受着巨大的压力,我建议你应该想想如何使你的情商得到开发。

还有其他的方法能够帮你缓解压力,如协调好你的工作时间,你处事的方法等其他有效的缓解压力的方法。用你认为可靠的方法来使你情商得到发展吧。