Emotional Regulation at Work: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Emotional Regulation at Work, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Practices that may help
- Situation selection
Choose or avoid situations based on their likely emotional consequences — regulation before the event.
Cognitive Reappraisal vs. Suppression, Made Practical - Find alternatives to expressive suppression in high-stakes moments
When you must manage what you show, use reappraisal or slow your breath rather than white-knuckling the expression down.
Cognitive Reappraisal vs. Suppression, Made Practical - Develop regulation strategies for high-value, difficult situations
For the situations you must enter despite their emotional cost, invest in regulation capacity rather than avoidance.
Situation Selection, Made Practical - Self-regulation
Manage disruptive impulses and moods so you respond by choice rather than reflex.
Emotional Intelligence, Made Practical - Teach the four zones and what each one feels like
Give children a shared map of internal states before asking them to regulate.
Zones of Regulation (Leah Kuypers) - Build emotional energy rituals to buffer against daily depletion
Emotional energy is the quality of emotional availability you bring to work and relationships — and it is trainable through brief daily rituals.
Energy Management, Not Time Management - Map your emotional landscape
Identify which situations reliably produce which emotions for you — before you need to regulate them.
Situation Selection, Made Practical - Distinguish suppression from reappraisal in the moment
Learn to tell when you are actually regulating versus just masking — the experience is different once you know what to look for.
The Costs of Expressive Suppression, Made Practical - Replace suppression with upstream reappraisal
Shift to reappraisal — changing how you think about the event before it generates the emotion you would otherwise suppress.
The Costs of Expressive Suppression, Made Practical - Red hat: name the emotions without justifying them
Give feelings a legitimate place in the discussion — the red hat makes emotional data explicit so it stops running covertly.
Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep saying yes to the same gatherings and commitments that reliably leave me drained and rattled, then trying to white-knuckle my way through the feelings once I’m there
- I’m about to walk into something where I genuinely can’t let what I’m feeling show
- There are a few things that matter enormously to me
- Something sets me off and I’m already reacting before I’ve even thought
- When my child melts down and I ask what’s wrong, they genuinely can’t tell me
Related concerns
- Emotion Regulation For Adults
Give children a shared map of internal states before asking them to regulate.
Teach the four zones and what each one feels like
- Emotion Regulation Handout 7
Learn to tell when you are actually regulating versus just masking — the experience is different once you know what to look for.
Distinguish suppression from reappraisal in the moment
- Emotion Regulation In The Workplace
When you must manage what you show, use reappraisal or slow your breath rather than white-knuckling the expression down.
Find alternatives to expressive suppression in high-stakes moments
- Act Emotional Regulation
Choose or avoid situations based on their likely emotional consequences — regulation before the event.
Situation selection
- Emotion Regulation A Model Of Emotions
Identify which situations reliably produce which emotions for you — before you need to regulate them.
Map your emotional landscape
- Emotion Regulation Abc Please
Give children a shared map of internal states before asking them to regulate.
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