Stress Management Quiz
Try the Impact Factory Stress Quiz
Take our Quiz below and see how you are managing your pressure:
1.
You get a fixed penalty for speed coming into work, do you:
a. Make a mental note that you need to charge the sat nav
b. Realise it
really is less fuss on public transport
c. Fuming…secretly plot to put a
firework in the speed camera when its dark..then forget about it.
d. Allow it
to nag all-day and really get frustrated
2. The partner or child
(could be the same) is taking longer than usual to get ready to leave - and is
making you late for a meeting - do you:
a. Shout at them you will leave without them anytime soon and generally get
cross
b. Phone your colleague to tell them about your potential
lateness
c. Get very assertive and usher them out of the door
d. Sit and
mutter - growing angry -watching the hand on the clock
3. The
proposal you have put a fair bit of extra effort into gets politely trashed by
your manager, do you:
a. Take it on the chin and get some useful feedback
b. Take it on the chin
and have a little moan to one of your colleagues
c. Take it on the chin and
remember there are a few good sections that might be useful in the up and coming
proposal you have to write
d. Take it on the chin, dig your heals in and find
yourself rerunning the scenario with your manager that night when you should be
asleep
4. Your morning gets potentially hijacked by a presentation
stand-in for a sick colleague - do you:
a. Delegate it to the new intern and spend 30 minutes coaching him
b.
Cancel it - you're too busy
c. Cancel your one to ones and spend an hour
preparing
d. Clear your diary and do-it-anyway…..only to find out the main
player for the meeting is also off sick and you wasted your time
5.
The long running project you have been working on it in it's final stages of
negotiation - your house sale fall through, do you:
a. Explain to the team what has happened and adjourn for 30 minutes while you
get it together
b. Explain to the team what has happened and head for the
washroom for a good cry
c. Excuse yourself and take the rest of day off - and
think of ways to assassinate your estate agent
d. Try to 'stay professional'
and completely miss one or two vital details because your head was in another
place
6. You are having a bit of a 'tricky patch' with your partner -
and you leave the house edgy after another disagreement, do you:
a. Try to put it out of your head - it just another rock on the road
b.
Think about if this will be important to you in a year - probably not
c. Make
time to call your partner when you get in and smooth things over
d. Try to
put it out of your head - unsuccessfully - and you feel exhausted by all the
thinking about it you have done by 4pm and give a colleague a hard time over an
insignificant detail
7. The train is cancelled - you are due in for
your appraisal with your manager - lateness has been an issue, do you:
a. Completely panic and take the whole day off sick
b. Get one of the
staff at the station to verify the cancellation with a written note and then
phone into the office
c. Phone the office from the station and grovel
d.
Drift in late again - because frankly I'm over this place
So, are you storing up stress?
If you answered d. to more than one or two of these you may be storing up
stress and...
there really is something you can do about it...
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