Compartmentalisation is a strategy for managing negative emotions from home that could affect work. It involves leaving personal matters and issues at home when commuting to work by using transit stops to mentally remove stressors or "lock them up in a box." This allows focusing on work without emotions from other life domains spilling over. Compartmentalisation helps maintain separation between work and personal life to perform job duties effectively.

1. Business Consultant Roberto Lico
licoreis@licoreis.com.br
Managing Your Emotions
at Work
Strategy 1 - Compartmentalisation
When negative emotions from home affect your work

2. Roberto Lico

3. We are emotional creatures. It is hard
for us, as humans, not to be emotional.
Whilst it is generally good to be in
touch with our emotions and to not
suppress them, there are situations
where we must somehow manage our
emotions especially well.

5. Compartmentalisation
(when negative emotions from home affect your
work)
Approach 01
Try and leave personal matters and issues at
home. When you commute to work, use that
time to tell your mind to let go.

6. For example, if you are
taking the
MRT/bus/driving, at
each station/bus
stop/traffic stop, mentally
ask the offending person
to get off or ‘push’ the
stressor out.

8. Some find it helpful to
mentally ‘store/lock up” the
issue in a box for the time
being.
You can also
compartmentalise work-
related stressors so that
your emotions at work
don’t spill over into your
personal life too.

10. Contact us for a Business Lecture.
Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br
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