Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - Experiencing Pressure

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Defining Pressure
It's almost certain that you'll have to deal with high pressure situations during your career and your life. Needless to say. Some professionals, such as airline pilots or firefighters, deal with very high levels of pressure on a daily basis. And, regardless of the scale of pressure — whether you're trying to land a plane suffering engine failure or trying to meet a production target — it's important that you manage the pressure effectively.
Pressure can be defined in different ways. It can be a compelling or constraining influence that affects your thought processes or willpower. For example, moral force can be used to bring pressure to bear on an individual. Pressure can manifest itself as an urgent claim or demand that can arise in business situations. Targets and deadlines can create pressure. And, a person may feel pressurized to perform.
Another definition of pressure is the state of physical, mental, social, or economic distress that can arise in stressful situations. The feeling of being under pressure is often linked to an individual's desire to be or to do something more. A new employee may feel the pressure of wanting to make it onto the management program or a person may want to exercise more as part of a healthy lifestyle. The need that drives both these examples can create pressure.
Causes of Pressure
If you stop for a second and think of some situations where you experienced pressure, and list the factors that caused you to feel pressure, you will realize that one of the factors you may have mentioned and that can cause pressure is the fear of embarrassment associated with failure. For example, if you have to perform an unfamiliar task, you may begin to doubt yourself. The possibility of failing to complete the task creates pressure for you.
The pressure that you may experience from a fear of failure has two sources: internal and external. The internal source is the anxiety that you generate inside yourself, and the external source is the unfamiliar task or environment that you face.
 An Individual Experience
Pressure is a very individual experience. What causes pressure differs from person to person. Take Linda and Ned for example. Both work in the Finance Department of a large pharmaceutical company. Linda feels under pressure when she has to make presentations. Ned, on the other hand, is comfortable making presentations but feels pressure when he's asked to generate expense forecasts.
This is just an example, and you will see many like this during the course. The situation might be real, but I use it just to prove a point.(...)

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