Workplace is supposed to be a highly rational place. Your Human Resources (HR) team may tell you that there is no place for emotions at workplace. All the training programs and coaching sessions may be designed to develop and sharpen your left brain. Be analytical, every poster in your office may shout. Think before you act, your boss may tell you. Your year-end performance appraisal may be designed to give you a higher rating if you got assessed better on all those rational activities. However, you know really well that you are never a 100% rational person. You can never be. No one can ever be. We are all manufactured with emotional genes. Sometimes we can control them. Sometimes we may act out of control. However, most times we cannot possibly understand all those emotions at work in us and in others around us. We try our best to keep our emotions under control. We sense it would be easier to deny the sheer existence of our emotions rather than take the skeletons out of the cupboard and confront them. Sometimes we attempt to control or deny others’ emotions. Your bosses deny them. Your systems disallow demonstration of emotions. No matter how much one tries to shut emotions out of the office doors, they exist. In fact, the more we deny it, the more it gets deeper into our work-life.

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I Am New,
Krish Murali Eswar.