08/01/2017

Four Ways to Help Employees Manage Stress, Pressure

Leaders can help workers build resilience to manage stress, pressure

People often don’t believe me at first when I tell them stress is a choice, and that—with practice—they can live without it. Some of us are even conditioned to believe some stress is a good thing, but if you stop and think about how stress actually makes you feel, it becomes obvious this couldn’t be true.

The disbelief and the misconceptions about stress spring from a poor definition of terms. One of the first things my colleague, Derek Roger, Ph.D., and I do in our resiliency trainings with companies and organizations around the world is properly define stress, and differentiate it from pressure.

Pressure is inevitable. We define it as the demand to perform, and it’s prevalent throughout our lives, not just at work. When people say some stress can be a good thing, they’re actually talking about pressure.

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