Communications & Mental Health At Work

Key Takeaways

Our CEO and Founder, Jessica Chen, recently hosted a Soulcast Media | LIVE event on LinkedIn, where she interviewed Licensed Clinical Psychologist, National Speaker, and Author Dr. Jenny Tzu-Mei Wang. They shared tips and personal stories about communications and mental health at work.

Here are the takeaways for VIP Comm Pass members:

• Communication is the by-product of an internal sense of knowing. If you don't know what you want, what you need, what you want your relationships to look like, then you won't be able to communicate with others.
• Communication is what bridges the boundary between self and others.
• Communication has to be rooted in a sense of mental well-being that is coming from a healthy place.
• Stress isn't always bad - exciting things can be good, like getting married or starting a new project. The idea isn't to eliminate stressors. The goal is to learn how to respond well to stress.
• Emotions don't go away; they repeat themselves until you understand what the emotions are trying to tell you, and you act to make significant changes.
• There are many layers to work-related stress. We need to take the time to really understand exactly why we are stressed.
• Stress is the way in which the mind and body rally to get things done.
• How we approach stress is how we will act when we are stressed.
• It's okay to set boundaries when you don't feel like a conversation is going well. You can offer to come back after you've had a chance to decide what you want to say.
• Before you can advocate for yourself, you must believe you deserve what you're advocating for.
• You need to take stock of what you bring to the table and not minimize yourself.
• Sit down with your manager and ask for specific feedback about what you do well. Then, create a list of areas where you excel.
• Often, we are not clear about what we want, which makes advocating for ourselves so much harder.
• You need to practice the action of self-advocacy.
• Advocating for yourself with the ACCT Framework
  • Asking for what you want
  • Circling back
  • Celebrate your wins
  • Turning down requests
• If you can't regulate your emotional life, you will struggle to communicate.

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