Stress at Work

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Stress at work: what is stress?


Whatever the age or professional status, stress is everywhere in the world of work: objectives, new clients to convince, an achieved turnover.

Stress also has a negative impact on the functioning of a company: turnover, absenteeism, lack of teams motivation, quality loss in production and performance.

It is a new disease that affects the companies organization.

Tensions that generally lead to:

* conflict management,

* communication difficulties with colleagues or manager, participate in our daily stress.

Furthermore, we must combine external personal problems and work stress management.

To maintain good mental and physical health, we have to learn to manage stress.

What kind of stress at work?


There are several kinds of stress, such as:

* good stress stimulates and helps give the best of oneself,

* bad stress makes us sick and demotivated,

* chronic stress is much more serious.

The symptoms of professional stress


Stress symptoms are various signs like:

* headaches,

* chronic fatigue,

* digestive problems,

* lack of recovery during sleep.

The individual is also: hurry, irritable, impatient, demanding, unmotivated.

Symptoms of stress will be divided into several phases:

* Alarm phase: the individual faces, but it uses his energy resources to adapt to stress.

* Resistance phase: the individual persists in his adaptation to stress and resists. His energy resources are dwindling, the body is struggling to recover. The individual faces, but he is on.

* Exhaustion phase: the individual no longer faces. The situation has settled and endures through time, stress is permanent and becomes chronic.

How to manage stress at work?


To manage stress, individual will have to use his personal abilities and resources to:

* learn how to handle different situations and adapt peacefully,

* learn self-management and therefore work on himself.

It will be necessary to know perceive and understand the external situations.

Stress can occur:

* during a public speech,

* when someone has to ask for a raise or ask for a promotion,


The stress is not managed overnight, we have to stop to pose as passive victim and take control. There is no miracle cure, to do this:

* a healthy lifestyle is essential as finding the pleasures of his interests,

* controlling his interpersonal communication by working on his emotions,

* the behavior must change the following:

- step back,
- defuse situations that concern the person,
- adopt a positive and soothing attitude.

Causes of stress


To manage stress, it is wise to determine the causes, such as:

* inadequate workplace,


* difficult work relationships,

* work overload,

* suspicion, etc.

Once the cause or causes detected, there must be adequate prevention measures that will eliminate stress or reduce it.

Preventive measures


There are several stress prevention measures at work such as:

* strengthen the individual resistance,

* think you spend moments just for you, do not neglect yourself,

* know say no when necessary.

Our organization faces a threat, it defends. The symptoms disappear when the stress situation ends.

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