Performance Under Pressure: Managing Stress in the Workplace
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Book Description
Everyone in the workplace is under stress-including your employees. The good news is that, with training, employees can learn how to work well under pressure.
This practical pocket guide for managers will teach you how to channel stress to enhance your own performance and the performance of those you manage.
You can alleviate the negative affects of stress in your workplace and organization and in teams and individuals-simply by applying the straightforward guidelines you'll find here.
Performance Under Pressure: Managing Stress in the Workplace focuses on the two essential skills required to perform well under pressure:
Perceiving a situation in an optimal way
Using the physiological boost associated with stress to your advantage
The book presents new and proven strategies for dealing with time, anger, people, fatigue and evaluation pressures. And it introduces an effective four-step method for optimal energy management.
Topics include:
Managing the stressed-out employee: Signs and symptoms to look for and how to productively discuss the problem with the employee
Self-assessment and other tools for developing effective stress management skills and habits
The costs of poorly managed stress-and the potential benefits of well-managed stress
Organizational best practices for stress management in your work group or organization
Performance Under Pressure: Managing Stress in the Workplace,Heidi Wenk Somaz,Heidi Wenk Sormaz,Bruce Tulgan,HRD Press, Inc.,0874257417,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Human Resources & Personnel Management,Job stress,Management - General,Personnel management,Psychological aspects,Stress management,Work environment
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