Strengthen emotional balance: Managers gain inner strength

Strengthen emotional balance through conscious self-awareness

The ability to maintain your own emotional balance is an important resource for managers. Those who are aware of their feelings can face challenges more calmly and organise decision-making processes more clearly. Techniques such as conscious breathing or short breaks help to find inner peace and centre oneself, especially in everyday management. This practice helps you not to react impulsively in emotionally stressful situations, but to act confidently and clearly.

A practical example shows how emotional balance can be strengthened: A manager uses breathing techniques before important meetings to keep a clear head and empathise with employees' concerns. This creates a climate of trust and openness that promotes collaboration.

BEST PRACTICE at company XYZ (name changed due to NDA contract) A manager reflects daily on her emotional states just before work and uses small mindfulness exercises to ensure her inner stability. Conscious self-awareness helped her to conduct difficult conversations more calmly and give her leadership skills more depth.

Using emotions as a management tool

Strengthening emotional balance also means utilising one's own feelings effectively in collaboration. Managers who reflect on their emotions can provide positive impetus, promote motivation and strengthen team spirit. By being attentive to the emotional state of their employees, they can create a harmonious and productive working environment.

In practice, this is demonstrated by a manager actively listening to conflicts, signalling understanding and thus enabling de-escalation. This empathetic approach creates space for constructive solutions and strengthens the emotional stability of everyone involved.

BEST PRACTICE at ABC (name changed due to NDA contract) A manager organises regular feedback sessions in the team, in which there is also room for emotional exchange. This allows tensions to be recognised early on and resolved together. The open communication culture supports emotional balance and promotes trusting cooperation.

Strategies for emotional resilience and stress management

Strengthening emotional balance also means increasing resilience to stressful situations. Managers benefit from strategies such as mindfulness, meditation or physical exercise to help them cope better with stressful moments. These methods promote a healthy work-life balance and help to maintain an overview in hectic phases.

Those who actively manage emotional stress can also serve as role models in the team and support colleagues in difficult times. The ability to re-evaluate challenges ("reframing") helps to see negative experiences as a learning opportunity and thereby consolidate emotional stability.

BEST PRACTICE at DEF (name changed due to NDA contract) One manager has firmly integrated regular exercise and mindfulness breaks into her daily routine, which helps her to stay calm even during stressful project phases. These routines serve as an anchor for her and enable her to have a positive impact on the team.

Strengthen emotional balance through authentic communication

Authentic and empathetic communication is key to maintaining emotional balance and being a positive role model for other managers. When managers speak honestly and openly about their feelings, they create trust. This facilitates dialogue and ensures respectful interaction, which promotes emotional stability.

It helps to recognise your own emotional state in conflict situations and to communicate this appropriately without overburdening others. This can lead to an appreciative dialogue based on mutual understanding.

BEST PRACTICE at GHI (name changed due to NDA contract) A manager uses open meetings to address emotional issues and enable authentic feedback. This strengthens cohesion and creates a corporate culture in which everyone feels heard and understood.

My analysis

Consistently working on emotional balance gives managers a decisive advantage. They gain inner strength, which provides stability in challenging situations and deepens their leadership skills. At the same time, emotional competence enables them to create an appreciative working environment that promotes motivation, openness and cohesion. The examples mentioned from various companies show that emotional balance is not just theory. Rather, these practices go hand in hand with lasting positive effects for managers and their teams.

Further links from the text above:

[1] Emotional intelligence at work: a guide for managers

[3] Emotional competence in leadership - basics for managers

[4] Self-management: 15+ methods for maximum potential

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