Highly emotional persons are those who get hurt easily and have more sensitiveness towards themselves and others. At the workplace, it becomes quite challenging if the majority of your employees are highly emotional. Because if you don’t deal with their emotions on time, you can end up wasting a lot of your time and resources on underperforming or non-performing employees. Here are some ways on how you can get the best out of such employees who have emotions higher than others.
1) Handle them in a delicate manner:
Many times it has been observed that highly emotional people have this resentment that they don’t get understood by others. Being a considerate employer, you can step in and let them know that you are all ears to listen to their emotional problems once every 15 days or a month so that they can keep their emotions and work separate and give their best. The way you handle them will tell a lot of things to them and help you win their trust and loyalty to the organization.
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2) Make room for improvements:
Highly emotional people are very good at performing their tasks. However, they don’t know to manage their emotions well which makes them difficult to work on time or complete the work in a productive manner. Like, if an employee has lost his child or a loved one or has some crisis going on in his personal life, he may not report to work wholeheartedly, will make errors at work, and will also feel distant at the workplace. It is your responsibility to get the best out of them by showing them how they can handle their emotions by improving themselves and keeping doing their work commitments without any hassle.
3) Learn to take it easy and also teach them the same skill:
Many bosses complain or criticize the highly emotional behavior of their employees, thus leading them to quit or resign from their positions. You may lose a good set of employees just because you are looking only at their vulnerable side. So if your employee has come to you telling you he wants to take a week’s break because he has a personal issue to deal with, don’t be hypertensive. Instead, take it easy and also encourage them to be less serious about things that cannot be solved.
4) Know that human beings have hearts that are weak for some:
It becomes easier to frame HR policies that make people work and get you profits. But it becomes challenging if you consider every type of employee while framing the HR policies and let the work culture be open and free. Say, if your employee has been sick for a while and is physically present and mentally absent, don’t fret. Instead of giving him memos or threatening emails to do the job or quit, walk outside your cabin and talk to the weak-hearted employee who is trying his best to make a living despite all challenges. You can discover ways of how you both can work in a win-win manner rather than creating an ego or policy issue.
