This is episode 18 of the Skills Sprint and today we're talking about a complicated topic which is managing your emotions.

Over to you, Helen.

I was going to say, I don't know what other people are like, why is it hard? It's just emotions.

But we were sort of reflecting on I think the way that we manage emotions, probably quite similar. I don't

think we are always very open with our emotions. And I think people, I think people have a lot of

learnt behaviours with emotions. So maybe your upbringing, other people might have a different

emotional response to you. But if what they're seeing is somebody who contains their emotions

and doesn't show up with them, then they might think, well, it's not safe for me to do that either. And so managing your emotions

helps you to probably be more authentic at work. It helps you to engender more trust with other people,

and it helps you to create a space where other people can be themselves too. So it is a tricky

complex thing, but it is quite important for us to think about what does this mean to me? How do I

show it with my emotions and what my I need to do differently? So I create that space where I can be

authentic and other people can show their emotions too. So how do you do this? Yeah, I was thinking in the organisations that I worked in,

certainly for a significant part of my career,

nobody really showed emotion.

It just wasn't a thing at work.

If I think now about how common it is to talk about people's mental health,

which is obviously a brilliant thing,

I do think now most the organisations say that we work with,

everybody talks really openly and really positively about their emotions

and how people are feeling and the impact that might have.

So I do think we've come a long way, but we're definitely like a,

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