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Nonkwan Hongthong19.07.2012

EAs and PAs Conference 2012Stress Management in the Workplace



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• Stress – Hate it or Love it!

• Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?

• Overcoming Fear of Failure

• Perfectionism

• Centering



Stress Management in the WorkplaceStress – Hate it or Love it!

Source: www.mindtools.com

“Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that "demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize." In short, it's what we feel when we think we've lost control of events.”

Richard S Lazarusone of the most influential psychologists

“Stress is not necessarily something bad – it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental."

Hans SelyeOne of the founding fathers of stress research



Stress Management in the WorkplaceThe Stress Scale


In 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe decided to study whether or not stress contributes to illness.

They surveyed more than 5,000 medical patients and asked them to say whether they had experience any of a series of 43 life events in the previous two years.

Each event, called a Life Change Unit (LCU), had a different "weight" for stress.

The more events the patient added up, the higher the score.

The higher the score, and the larger the weight of each event, the more likely the patient was to become ill.



Stress Management in the WorkplaceThe Stress Scale


This table is taken from "The Social Re-adjustment Rating Scale", Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 1967, Pages 213-218, Copyright © 1967 Published by Elsevier Science Inc.

Score Comment

300+ You have a high or very high risk of becoming ill in the near future.

150-299 You have a moderate to high chance of becoming ill in the near future.

<150 You have only a low to moderate chance of becoming ill in the near future.

Stress Scale

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• Perfectionism

• Centering



Stress Management in the WorkplaceAre you Positive or Negative Thinker?


"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.“

Zig Ziglar - Personal development guru

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

Mahatma Gandhi

Positive Thinking

“attracts positive people, events, and outcomes”







• Perfectionism

• Centering



Have you ever been so afraid of failing at something that you decided not to try it at all?



Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985.

Yet he returned in 1997, and was instrumental in helping the company develop products such as the iMac, iPod, and iPhone.



Warren Buffet, one of the world's richest and most successful businessmen, was rejected by Harvard University.



Think of the opportunities you'll miss if you let your failures stop you.



Stress Management in the WorkplaceOvercoming Fear of Failure


However, it's important to realize that in everything we do, there's always a chance that we'll fail.

considering all of the potential

outcomes of your decision

think more positively

having a "Plan B" in place







• Perfectionism

• Centering



Stress Management in the WorkplacePerfectionism

Source: www.biography.com www.mindtools.com

Excessive perfectionism can do more harm than good - it can be damaging to your self-esteem and to that of the people you work with. It can put a strain on your relationships, and, in some cases, it can lead to health issues.

She loves perfections..

Within a decade, Martha Stewart, Inc., had grown into a $1 million business serving a number of corporate and celebrity clients. Stewart expanded into the world of publishing with her first book, Entertaining, which became a bestseller and was followed in quick succession by such publications as Martha Stewart's Quick Cook Menus, Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres, Martha Stewart's Christmas, and Martha Stewart's Wedding Planner. Her newfound fame took its toll on her personal life, as her marriage to Andy Stewart ended in divorce in 1990, after a bitter three-year separation.



Maladaptive Perfectionism

Healthy quest for success

OR

Maladaptive perfectionists are never satisfied with what they achieve. If something isn't perfect, they dismiss it. They may experience fear of failure, doubt, unhappiness, and other painful emotions.

Adaptive perfectionists work on developing their skills.

Their standards are always rising, and they approach work with optimism, pleasure, and a

desire to improve.

This is clearly a healthy type of perfectionism



Stress Management in the WorkplacePerfectionism


You can use these strategies to deal with perfectionism:

Set Realistic Goals

Listen to Your Emotions

Don't Fear Mistakes

“To overcome your perfectionist behaviors, start by listing everything you do (or don't do) because of your desire for perfection.”







• Perfectionism

• Centering



Stress Management in the WorkplaceCentering


Centering is a technique that

originated, and is still used, in Aikido –

one of the Japanese martial arts.

Aikido is nonviolent, and is perhaps

the most cerebral of all the self-

defense arts. It literally means 'the

way of unifying life energy.'



stop and think for a moment about how stress affects you

focus on the here and now, and do not allow outside concerns to intrude on your inner strength and calm



It depends on…

YOU.



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