This document discusses stress management techniques, especially for the workplace. It covers types and causes of stress, positive and negative stress, stress management techniques including relaxation, and how to develop positive thinking patterns. It also provides tips for managing stress in teams, such as setting clear goals and expectations, building trust, holding regular meetings, tracking time usage, and providing coaching. The document emphasizes providing purpose and plans, delegating tasks appropriately, and defining standards for teams to reduce stress.

4. Stress
Stress Management
Stress & the Workplace/Office
Positive thinking
Objectives
Types, causes and indicators and different signs of stress
Positive and negative stress, Stress performanceconnection and Techniques of stress management
Handling stress at the workplaceand Relaxation techniques
Positive and negative thinking.
Thinking Patterns
Changes in thinking patterns and techniques to develop positive thinking
Positive thinking at the Workplace/Office
How to apply positive thinking at the workplace

5. Time to break some Ice!
 Stressful Questions
 Stress Words
 Box of Lies

6. Time to break some Ice!
 Stressful Questions
 Stress Words
 Box of Lies

43. How to successfully reduce &
manage stress in a team:
1. Clear purpose, goals and
expectations for the team
2. Build trust among team
members
3. Hold regular planning and
review meetings
4. Track how team members
spend their time
5. Be a good coach to your
team
• Start with why: provide a clear emotional
purpose of why the team exists
• Write down the team’s goals: make sure
everyone knows what the team must achieve
next
• Script the critical moves: provide a plan of how
the goals will be achieved in small manageable
tasks
• Delegate tasks in a smart way: make sure that
the right people tackle the right set of tasks
(according to their abilities and potential)
• Definition of done: clearly define the standards
that you expect for each task

44. • Be the change that you want to
see in others!
CS Harish VK