Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - Pressure Responses

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Restoring the Balance
Experiencing excessive stress triggers different emotions in a person that cause an imbalance to occur. Instead of being calm, a person becomes worried or begins to act in an uncharacteristic manner. To restore the balance and neutralize the impact of stress, the human body releases endorphins.
This can have serious consequences because endorphins dull a person's ability to think and feel. Both abilities affect a person's decision-making and interpersonal skills. This is why stress can impair your work performance.
If you want to perform to the best of your ability at work, you need to successfully manage your relationships, imagination, emotions, and cognition. Stress that is caused by pressure can negatively affect these areas.
Impact of Stress
The following areas are negatively impacted by stress:
• Relationships
• Imagination
• Emotions
• Cognition
Relationships
Stress can negatively affect your working relationships by making you less sensitive to the needs of others and by reducing your ability to show empathy.
To survive a stressful situation, you might block out other people and concentrate on doing everything you can to relieve the stress. This survival mechanism reduces your interpersonal skills and can lead to workplace conflict.
For example, Violet is a teller in a bank. She is experiencing stress because her computer system keeps crashing and there's a long line of customers waiting. Her colleague Penny — who has just started working for the bank — asks her a question about a currency exchange rate but Violet dismisses her with a shrug. Penny's feelings are hurt.
Imagination
High stress can have a negative impact on your imagination by diminishing your ability to think in a creative way. That's because it puts a physiological and psychological strain on the human brain, which compromises creativity.
This can have serious implications in the workplace because imagination is a key driver of business innovation.
Take Leroy, an advertising executive. He's feeling stressed because he has been asked to create a new advertising concept for a client. Because the stress affects Leroy's creativity, he (...)

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