07/07/2021

Recharge Your EQ Before Heading Back to the Office

Five ways to tune up your EQ before you go back to your workplace

Even though you’ve been in virtual contact—potentially for hours on end—with members of your team, work life looks incredibly different today than it did just 18 months ago. Most of us have felt either excitement or anxiety, or a combination of both, while anticipating our return to the office. We have new perceptions of our work environment, our culture, our coworkers, and the meaning of work-life balance. The good news: We can use our emotional intelligence (EQ) to assess those perceptions, rebuild connections, create opportunity, and avoid falling back on comfortable, but bad, old habits.

It’s vital to invest your time in EQ right now. EQ is what enables you to understand and manage your emotions related to going back to work, your behavior because of those emotions, and the impact they have on you and those around you.

Here are five ways to recharge your EQ.

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