rebecca,
Without making light of a situation humor is a good technique if we can keep the importance of the situation at hand. The humor can help motivate the action needed to solve issues.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Connie,
When your people trust you enough to put it on the table you have the opportunity to deal with issues in a calm and professional manner.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Ryan,
All of us have ways of circumventing stress. We just need to practice what works best for us. We need to follow our common sense to do what is right for us to contend with the day to day challenges.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Gwo-Fang,
Your techniques are excellent. It is good to have a balance in your life. Using exercise, mental relaxation, good health activity and spiritual rejuvenation will help us in our everyday challenges.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Kathy,
Remaining positive is the secret. When we can be observed and seen as constantly positive with your staff and even negative people will change or escape because no one is going along with the negative attitude.
Dr. Gary Carlson
jon,
It is always beneficial to express yourself. For your health and mental composure we need to be able to do this. We also need to do this without high emotion and trust in ourselves to communicate in a level calm process to better understand the situation without emotion.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Warren,
Good for you in having these practice. Sometimes we learn from a situation that helps us improve with other challenges.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Tonya,
I have learned over my 43 years of working in education I know that we need to work with some humor injected into the daily life. Every challenge comes and goes some are great outcomes and others were not but honestly life goes on with another challenge. This is what makes life exciting.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Alicia ,
It is great you recognize the need to listen to your body. It is important to have a balanced life with exercise, mental relaxation, good health habits and spiritual rejuvenation.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Brenda,
All of your practices are great. We need the varying activity to face any kind of challenge or direction that is needed. Sometimes by following your practice we have moments of new discovery which could enhance your decision making.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Theresa,
Team approaches give each of us more confidence in our decisions and creates ownership to the final decision. Good for you.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Debra,
Good for you it is great to take a second look at a situation. Composed and non emotional decision is better for all concerned. This is when we often say we are going to sleep on it. We even do this on our daily life with buying large ticket items. (Autos, Homes, Education etc.)
Dr. Gary Carlson
Theresa,
When a teacher can move forward with relationships in the classroom by being available creates a greater learning environment. I have often told great teachers are tired at night just by the number of steps they take in the classroom each day.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Elena,
This is always a stressful experience. I was part of a huge investigation in a company by the federal government. This is when you begin to stress the important factors of who your people are and their character. I worked for a great leader at this time who continued to reassure all of us that you know who you are and we have not done anything wrong. Each of us need to be proud of who we are with high ethics and character. Great time to build your people up and cooperate with the investigation. This is a time when you see the real strength of your people.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Elena,
Good for you for your plan. We all need to lead a balanced life with exercise, health practices, mental health relaxation, recreation and spiritual rejuvenation.
Dr. Gary Carlson
Elena,
Work and fun do mix. The practice in the work place helps employees create a better trust level and comfort level for expressing themselve professionally for the better of the business of the workplace.
Dr. Gary Carlson
A sense of humor is the best way to handle stressful situations. I try to think of some way to make a streesful situation funny and then I can relax and take charge of the problem
A good laugh in the workplace can work miracles. It helps to put things in perspective. I have a trusted colleague at work and we will vent a little then cut up about high pressure situations we have going on. This helps make the situation a bit more tolerable and puts things in perspective.
Yes breathing, exercise, and eating right can absoutley impact our ability to function in high pressure situations.
Beginning in January I implemented a 4 day a week exercise regimen. By exercising frequently I have a more regular sleep cycle and those that work with me have noted that I am not on edge as once was.
As an added benefit I have been able to lose some weight I had gained due to high stress.
Well, without even realizing it I have used one of the techniques listed in our readings.
There was a time in the recent past where there was a huge investigation going on within our department and as a result there was a lot of stress on the team. The investigation itself could result in several people losing their jobs. One of the actions I took to help de-escalate emotions and tensions was pull back from pushing activity and or assigning addtional tasks. I felt that if I did this I would break employees and place them in that high anxiety zone that would keep them from being able to perform.
