#006 - We’re trained to leave our emotions at the doorstep when it comes to work but using emotions consciously and intentionally can make individuals and teams more creative, more motivated and happier. This is according to Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, who studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity. Zorana shares her insights on using different emotions for the divergent and convergent parts of a design process and how designers and facilitators can manage their and their team’s emotions to help them be more creative. We also talk about the benefits of acknowledging your feelings at work instead of hiding them. Zorana also shares her tips for bringing more emotional intelligence into your workplace as a leader, individual contributor or even someone starting a new role and how even a single individual can spread a positive emotion contagion by being the first one to embrace their emotions.

In this episode:

• The types of emotions needed for divergent and convergent thinking
• How and when to introduce constraints into a creative process
• Acknowledging and labelling feelings to relieve the pressure of hiding them
• Bringing emotional intelligence into work proactively
• Managing emotions in a new role
• Talking to co-workers about how you’re feeling
• Importance of rituals to begin and end meetings to prevent negative emotional contagion

Shownotes

Join the Design Feeling Fireside chat with Zorana on Thu 24th Feb 2022 2pm UK time
https://www.designfeeling.co/fireside/

Zorana's blog on Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/zorana-ivcevic-pringle-phd

Gravitational waves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

Emotional granularity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_granularity

Rituals for Work by Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41544270-rituals-for-work

Courage to Create by Rolly May
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646141.The_Courage_to_Create

Zorana's website
https://www.zorana-ivcevic-pringle.com/

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