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"The reward of a thing well done

is to have

done it.”

 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

Managing Work Place Stress

• How to help employees cope with daily stress

• Know where and when to focus your efforts

• The Wheel of Life

• Rules for games, rules for life

• Leading employees through times of change

• Learn how to recognize the signs of too much stress

• Coach employees on the use of stress management tools

 

 

How to Manage Stress

Develop a Stress Strategy: Preparing, considering options, implementation.

 

Analyze your situation

o Identify stressors and stress triggers

o Understand how you show your stress

o Consider the consequences

o Consider stress management tools

o Look long term to build resistance

o Implement and evaluate

 

Stress Management Tools

  • Relaxation response techniques: counter the fight or flight mechanism.

Inhale for a count of three, exhale for a count of two.

  • Meditate

Quiet environment

Point of focus, calming word

Accepting attitude

Comfortable position

  • Visualization: practice in your mind’s eye, consider options, knowing what to do.

  • Exercise and exercise regularly

  • Healthy lifestyle

  • Do something fun! Laugh!

  • Talk

  • Withdraw

  • Schedule break times

  • Learn to say “no.”

  • Be realistic about choices and change.

  • Build your skills.

  • Get organized

  • Take charge of your life

  • Use/build your support network

  • Aromatherapy

  • Reward yourself!

Take a Breather From Stress*

• Sit in a comfortable position.

• Close your eyes.

• Deeply relax all your muscles and keep them relaxed.

• Breathe through your nose. Become aware of your breathing and as you breathe out, repeat a word (such as "one") silently to yourself. Keep distracting thoughts from interfering by concentrating on repeating the word.

• Continue for ten or twenty minutes.

• When you are done, do not stand up immediately, but sit with your eyes open for a few minutes.

 

* "Breather from Stress,” Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson, M.D. (New York, NY: William Morrow); 1975.

 

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I highly recommend his services.”

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Vice President

School Specialty, Inc.

 

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