Managing Pressure

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Managing Pressure

These days a lot of people feel as though they're being asked to do the impossible.

Because they're good at what they do, employees are expected to do more, fix problems, handle crises, and in general, cope with all variety of situations with a level head.

Managers are expected to deal not only with their own pressure, but also with the pressure of the people they manage.

There are some people who literally feel like the meat in a sandwich because they are being squeezed from above and below.

And when people themselves feel pressurised, they often put additional pressure on their colleagues: a kind of domino theory of coping with stress.

Now, the one and only truism about stress, is that it's different for everyone: what causes one person to feel pressured won't be true for someone else.

In other words, one person's stress is another's excitement.

Equally, it is not pressure itself which is the problem, but the way in which people react to that pressure.

Unexpected things happen to us, extra demands are made, time runs out, deadlines get passed - this is the stuff of our workaday and personal lives over which we may appear to have little control.

How we deal with the seemingly 'uncontrollable' is the key to good stress management.

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