Stress Management

Stress management Lifestyle enhancement series

6 stages of stress management

Understanding stress - Foreword
Stress has been called “the invisible disease”. It is a disease that may affect you your organization and any of the people in it, so you cannot afford to ignore it.

Step 1 What is stress
Definition of stress
Its effect on you
Its effect on companies
Its effect on decisions

Defining stress at work - Foreword
Changes in working practices may build stress. Organizational stress can be measured by absenteeism and quality of work.

Step 2 Assess the stress at work
Organizational stress
Recognizing symptoms
Physical signs
Emotional signs
Measuring stress in organizations
How stressed are you ? -TEST

Analyzing the causes of stress
Deadlines to meet
Mistakes to rectify
Demands to satisfy
Targets to achieve
Problems to resolve
Challenges to rise to
Changes to adapt
Co-workers to smoothen
Goal posts are moved
Work is interrupted
Working relationships strained
Too much or little to do
Work stretches you or bores you
Your job future is uncertain
You are being bullied

Step 3 Introducing demand/ control model
Demand and control system
Feature – advantage- benefit
Feature – disadvantage – implication

Step 4 Apply processes and tools
Tools to solve short term stress
Tools to solve chronicle stress
Power of positive thinking

Step 5 Commit to action
Group problem solving for defined stress factors
What’s happening now
What’s my objective
What are my steps?
Plan
Discuss
Commit

Step 6 Bench mark progress
Deadline setting to solve the stress factors
What was happening then?
What’s happening now?
How much did we improve?
What’s next?

Stress Management

by Adile on Mar 02, 2010

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