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Step Two: Managing Emotions

      Bad days are inevitable to any human. That is why empathy and managing emotions at work are so important. if we do not manage our emotions we can experience emotional hijacking, incivility, and frustration. When we manage our emotions we can start to have difficult conversations. Its understandable to have bad days and want to react with negative emotions, but work is not a place to let it out. Expressing your frustrations at work could negatively effect other team members productivity or effect your own work performance. Both will lead to bigger consequences.     Having emotional intelligence is easy but consistent work on it is a must. Domains to having emotional intelligence is self awareness, self management, empathy and relationship management. Each one of these domain can have specific goals to improve. For example, if a team member want to improve their self awareness could be more aware of their triggers at work or sharing to others when they are f...
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Step One: Communication barriers

      What are the communication barriers in business? Barriers include noise, ineffective listening, and incivility. I will explore the meaning of each barrier and the tools to help overcome each one of them. Barriers are not limited to the ones i brought up, but are made because of the lack of wanting to understand each other. Once we learn to understand each other, work meetings and team groups will have the tools to achieve their shared goals.     Let's start with noise. When communicating to other workers there can be an external and internal noise. Meaning that for external there could be a loud noise, like construction, that makes you interpret the other person. Internal noise could be having other thoughts that don't allow you to fully listen to your team member. Other examples of noise could include psychological or semantic. Psychological could involve loss of hearing or mental illness. Semantic means that there could be different meanings to the same ...
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Say Goodbye to useless Meetings.

      Welcome readers! My name is Daina Amaya. I'm a person involved in many business ventures like dog grooming, selling clothes and accounting for my boyfriends boss. i have experience with good and bad businesses. The ones that make for a good business is effective teamwork and consistent work with communication barriers. One of the most effective ways to communicating with team members is to have effective meetings. As for me i know i have struggled to communicate and understand others in my business. To become more of a resourceful team member i have understood the barriers of communication and the tools to remove them.     If you are someone who feels they struggle to make their voice heard or see that your own business has communication barriers, then you've come to the right place. Communication barriers can affect your business and your personal life. When being in a team we want to have a shared goal; which also implies having or arriving at a shared m...
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