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    How To Manage Stress In The Workplace: The No Waffle Guide For Managers
    How To Manage Stress In The Workplace: The No Waffle Guide For Managers
    How To Manage Stress In The Workplace: The No Waffle Guide For Managers
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    How To Manage Stress In The Workplace: The No Waffle Guide For Managers

    By Louise Palmer

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    Think your team is suffering with stress? Want to know what is contributing to their stress levels so you can start to make changes? Looking to create a more positive place to work? Then this book is for you.

    What will I learn?
    -An understanding of how perceptions affect the amount of stress an individual experiences.
    -An understanding of the major factors that cause workplace stress, based on decades of psychological research in organisations.
    -How to create a positive work environment to reduce stress.
    -The key warning signs that indicate a person may be experiencing a high level of stress.
    -How to approach an individual you suspect is struggling to cope with the stress of their work or working environment.
    -How to get to the root cause of stress using psychological techniques.
    -How to work with employees to change stressors
    -How to monitor and review the outcomes

    How will this book benefit me?
    You will be able to reduce the stress levels of your team. You will be able to create a positive working environment to ensure that stress levels remain low in the future. As a result, your team will be more creative and will be able to achieve higher levels of performance.

    Based on a training course from a UK based training company.

    About the Author
    Louise Palmer is a Psychologist and Solution Focused Therapist. Having worked in the psychology field for over 10 years, she has successfully counselled individuals to manage their own stress levels. This work led to training managers on how to reduce stress in the workplace. She has trained all levels of employee from team managers to CEO’s.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLouise Palmer
    Release dateFeb 17, 2016
    ISBN9781310017407
    How To Manage Stress In The Workplace: The No Waffle Guide For Managers

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      How To Manage Stress In The Workplace - Louise Palmer

      How To Manage Stress In The Workplace

      The No Waffle Guide For Managers

      By Louise Palmer

      Copyright © 2014 by Louise Palmer.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Contents

      Understanding Stress

      Causes of Stress at Work

      Managing Stress

      References

      Understanding Stress

      If someone asked you ‘What is Stress?’, how would you explain it? Take a few minutes to consider your thoughts before reading on.

      What is Stress?

      The word ‘Stress’ originates from the Latin word ‘stringere’ which means ‘to be drawn tight’. Stress was first recognised as having a long-term affect on health in 1929 by Walter B. Cannon.

      When confronted with extreme danger people choose whether to stay and ‘fight’, or run away which is termed ‘flight’. A researcher called Cannon was one of the first researchers to discover that in these situations people experience physiological changes such as emergency adrenalin secretions. Cannon considered these individuals to be ‘under stress’.

      Stress often occurs when an individual does not have the resources to deal with the particular situation or environment they find themselves in. Cummings and Cooper (1979) suggest that individuals try to keep their thoughts, emotions and relationships with others in a ‘steady state’.

      Individuals have a range of stability where they feel comfortable. They can cope with changes to a certain degree. If a change occurs which forces them beyond their comfort zone, they will feel distressed. The individual has to work to restore a feeling of calm either

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