Stress Management (Second Edition)

Author: Warren
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Do you know the need for healthy stress? Before unhealthy stress accumulates and worsens, can you identify its signs? When you need to relax, can you actually do so? Do you know the five key actions to create a stress-appropriate level? As a manager, can you help employees with stress issues even when you yourself are under pressure? Do you know how to leverage team stress while maintaining good performance? Can you handle unexpected periods of high or low pressure? This book provides readers with a simple method to make stress no longer mysterious, while guiding them on how to transform it into a positive factor, achieving a healthy professional life, and bringing maximum efficiency to both businesses and individuals. The book draws from our experiences in conducting counseling sessions and training courses in various companies, as well as our work with many individuals who wish to control workplace stress—both ourselves and others—along with real-life cases and exercises proven effective in practice. The examples in Chapter 10 are all based on the feedback results of a small-scale survey conducted by "Industrial Society" (IndustrialSociety). This survey was specifically designed for the book and covered various industries and companies of different sizes.