* stating my concerns to a co-workers
* being a ear to listen to a co-workers concerns
* talking a plan out if possible to resolve any concerns shared.
* letting someone in charge know about the concerns to get help.
Jeremy,
This may work for you sometime until you meet up with trauma or crisis. You need to make a special preparation for things you can't control. This stress is relieved when you have prepared for it. People who have created a balanced life through good health practices, exercise, mental relaxation and spiritual rejuvenation have a positive chance of conquering stress.
Dr. Gary Carlson
For some time now, I have employed a very simple stress management strategy. "Control your controlables and let the rest go".
Carol,
When you have someone you can talk to and trust is a great value to your stress reduction. Keeping a balanced life with health practices, mental exercises, exercise and spiritual rejuvenation you can have a better handle on addressing stress.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Latissha,
Positive out weighs negative. If you can get your people to ignore the negative and extenuate the positive you can diminish the negative over a span of time. This is something the team and leaders need to acknowledge and work to eliminate the negative.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Carol,
Calling attention to real life situations is always a great way of getting ownership of the lesson to be learned. Your method is very good.
Dr. Gary Carlson
David,
I can support your decision that reacting to a situation with emotion usually is unwarranted. You are on the right track when you step back and take a second look at the situation. Stress can be avoided when you can are in a calm state.
Dr. Gary Carlson
I handle my workplace stress by exercising regularly and talking problems through with my husband. I find that putting small things into perspective helps diminish worry and stress.
CK
Keeping a positive attitude! There is notthing worse than coming to the work place, and having to deal with negativity from the same people everyday! So, I try to keep a smile on my face and give encouraging words to those type of people.
One of the ways I advise students to put their stress into perspective is to ask them how important this one problem is compared to what they have accomplished in their lives. This usually reduces the at the moment trauma.
CK
if and when i get stressed at work, i usually stop, breath take a brief timeout and think to myself is this worth getting stressed about and if it is how can i fix it. I used to react right away and now i have found that if you step back and take time to think about the stressor most of the time its not as big of a deal as you originally thought.
G.,
Stepping back from a situation to catch your breath and think through it logically is a good practice. Sometimes it is good to remove yourself totally from the issue and then revisit it later. This may give a new perspective and solution oriented attitude.
Dr. Gary Carlson
The best way to handle stress for me is leaving the situation and take a quick walk releasing all my anger and frustration. then come back when I am all cool down.
Mary,
87% of great communication is listening. We can respond and the communicators work better together by listening to the person. This skill is made up of listening appropriately with facial expression and body language that supports the person talking.
Dr. Gary Carlson
I try to lend an ear to others. It helps me to talk about things that stress me out.
Ian,
87% of our communication skill comes from being a good listener. When people do the talking and we listen it is easier to respond intelligently. With keeping our emotions in tack and following with reasonable and rationale direction our people have a stronger trust for you as a leader.
Dr. Gary Carlson
I agree and have used this method many times myself as well as tried to listen when others need to vent. If you get things out in the open you can often clear up the stress quickly
Arlene
We all have a breaking point, If we can avert this spot is a good idea, We can only control what we can, sometimes a walk or just solitude helps, If you can predict your explosion point before it happens take your walk then, Your health will benefit from your astute awareness on emotion and blood pressure,
Dr. Gary Carlson
when I am stress out what help is taking a long walk releasing all my madness or go fishing. But sometimes it doesn't work but truly as a human we can only take so much whatever you can release will help
Tracy,
In short people don't care what you know until they know that you care!
Dr. Gary Carlson
