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Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you'll find that you can't control all the external factors that cause you to experience pressure. However, you can control your reaction to pressure.
This will help you avoid wasting energy on negative emotions that can impede your performance at work. It's best to adopt an attitude of control for performing under pressure.
Avoid making instinctive reactions. Think everything through instead so that your reaction is more considered and appropriate.
Principles to Control Your Reaction
There are two main principles to follow to control your reaction to pressure. First, take control of yourself. And second, cultivate a success mentality. But what does the first principle mean?
Taking control of yourself
Taking control of yourself means taking stock of your emotions, establishing a sense of calm, accepting that you can't control everything, and using self-talk as a reminder.
Taking stock of your emotions involves identifying what your feelings are when you're under pressure and how these feelings impact your behavior and your relationships with others. If you do this objectively, you'll create an early warning system for yourself.
For instance, if you're feeling frustrated because of pressure, will this make you difficult to approach? If you're able to anticipate the negative tendencies that these feelings cause, you may be able to avoid them.
Consider this example. Corbin is a quality control supervisor for a dairy processing company. In the past, pressure caused him to become withdrawn and his colleagues found it difficult to deal with him. After he identified this tendency in himself, Corbin made an effort to be more communicative if he felt under pressure. He found this actually relieved some of his stress.
Control Your Emotions
Another aspect of taking stock of your emotions is to realize that experiencing high pressure can cause you to lose control. As pressure increases, your responses may become more instinctive and reactive.
You should try to be more measured and precise in your responses when you're under pressure. Try not to let your emotions dictate how you respond.
Tina, for example, is a hospital administrator who was under pressure to quickly transfer a large number of patient details to a database. She grew irritable and responded harshly to a friendly query from a colleague. But when she realized the effect of her behavior, she became more aware of how she had lost control of her emotions. She is now determined to keep her reactions more controlled when she's under pressure. (...)
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - Having the Right Attitude
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Work-related pressure can occur in any profession or industry. In some situations, it can lead to stress and this can cause suboptimal performance. Maybe you know a colleague who is very competent and efficient. But in pressurized situations, that person's ability and judgment becomes seriously impaired.
This is why it's crucial to develop the right attitude while under pressure. Doing so will help you to optimize your performance, increase your energy levels, recognize opportunities, and respond creatively to challenges.
Optimize Your Performance
The first benefit of developing the right attitude while under pressure is that it can optimize your performance. An optimistic and positive outlook will help you to achieve your goals.
Optimism can strengthen your resilience. In difficult situations when you're experiencing pressure, you need to stand firm. Having a positive attitude can make this easier to do.
Spence, for example, has recently qualified as an insurance actuary. He has an enthusiastic and positive attitude. This contributes to his levels of happiness and perseverance. Both these elements contribute to better levels of performance.
Increase Your Energy
The second benefit of developing the right attitude while under pressure is that it can increase your energy levels by controlling your stress. Stress can sap your energy and negatively affect your mood. If you don't control your stress, it may overwhelm you and reduce your productivity. Losing control over your stress causes you to focus your concentration on negative mental processes.
Because Spence is new to his position, he is experiencing stress. But he develops a positive approach to stress and uses his energy to concentrate on productive outcomes.
Recognizing Opportunities
Recognizing opportunities is the third benefit of cultivating the right attitude while under pressure. You should view pressure as an opportunity to find solutions.
The perceptions of people with negative attitudes tend to become skewed. If the boss makes a small criticism, it gets seen as an attack on your entire performance, which increases the feeling of pressure. But with the right attitude, you can find opportunities in what appear to be problems.
Spence maintains a positive attitude. Instead of being weighed down by the pressure of a tight deadline, he sees his assignment as an opportunity to show what he's capable of.
Respond Creatively to Challenges
The final benefit of developing the right attitude when under pressure is that it enables you to respond creatively to challenges. A positive attitude can free your mind to think creatively and laterally about a situation that is causing pressure.
Spence for instance, uses many different perspectives such as entrepreneur, dreamer, optimist, strategist, and architect. (...)
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Work-related pressure can occur in any profession or industry. In some situations, it can lead to stress and this can cause suboptimal performance. Maybe you know a colleague who is very competent and efficient. But in pressurized situations, that person's ability and judgment becomes seriously impaired.
This is why it's crucial to develop the right attitude while under pressure. Doing so will help you to optimize your performance, increase your energy levels, recognize opportunities, and respond creatively to challenges.
Optimize Your Performance
The first benefit of developing the right attitude while under pressure is that it can optimize your performance. An optimistic and positive outlook will help you to achieve your goals.
Optimism can strengthen your resilience. In difficult situations when you're experiencing pressure, you need to stand firm. Having a positive attitude can make this easier to do.
Spence, for example, has recently qualified as an insurance actuary. He has an enthusiastic and positive attitude. This contributes to his levels of happiness and perseverance. Both these elements contribute to better levels of performance.
Increase Your Energy
The second benefit of developing the right attitude while under pressure is that it can increase your energy levels by controlling your stress. Stress can sap your energy and negatively affect your mood. If you don't control your stress, it may overwhelm you and reduce your productivity. Losing control over your stress causes you to focus your concentration on negative mental processes.
Because Spence is new to his position, he is experiencing stress. But he develops a positive approach to stress and uses his energy to concentrate on productive outcomes.
Recognizing Opportunities
Recognizing opportunities is the third benefit of cultivating the right attitude while under pressure. You should view pressure as an opportunity to find solutions.
The perceptions of people with negative attitudes tend to become skewed. If the boss makes a small criticism, it gets seen as an attack on your entire performance, which increases the feeling of pressure. But with the right attitude, you can find opportunities in what appear to be problems.
Spence maintains a positive attitude. Instead of being weighed down by the pressure of a tight deadline, he sees his assignment as an opportunity to show what he's capable of.
Respond Creatively to Challenges
The final benefit of developing the right attitude when under pressure is that it enables you to respond creatively to challenges. A positive attitude can free your mind to think creatively and laterally about a situation that is causing pressure.
Spence for instance, uses many different perspectives such as entrepreneur, dreamer, optimist, strategist, and architect. (...)
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Sunday, November 22, 2015
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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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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Saturday, November 7, 2015
Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - How Stress Affects You
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Ways in Which Stress Affects You
To complete your understanding of your response to stress, you should be aware of the different ways stress affects you. Stress can manifest itself in physical, cognitive, emotional, or behavioral ways. These symptoms may have other origins than stress, but they are potential indicators of stress that should be considered nonetheless.
There are four physical symptoms that have been associated with stress: sleeping fitfully, agitated behavior, muscle tension, and lack of energy. And among the cognitive symptoms of stress are mental slowness, confusion, constant worry, and difficulty concentrating.
When it comes to the emotional side of stress, these four symptoms are typical: irritation, no sense of humor, frustration, and apathy. Behavioral symptoms of stress include poor work relations, a sense of loneliness, avoiding others, and not taking time to relax.
Exercise - Symptoms of Stress
Match the symptoms of stress to the appropriate categories. Each category may have more than one match.
Options:
A - A sales manager loses sleep thinking about targets.
B - A journalist working on a deadline shows signs of annoyance.
C - An accountant consults an online guide to remember a simple tax rate.
D - A stressed office administrator feels a sense of loneliness.
E - A web site designer feels frustrated because of a heavy workload
F - Stress causes a nurse to constantly worry
Targets:
1 - Physical.
2 - Cognitive.
3 - Emotional.
4 - Behavioral.
Answer:
Losing sleep is an example of one of the physical symptoms associated with stress. Other symptoms include agitated behavior, muscle tension, and lack of energy.
Forgetting simple things because of mental slowness, and constant worrying are both cognitive symptoms of stress. Other symptoms include confusion and difficulty concentrating.
Becoming irritated because of deadline-related stress and feeling frustrated due to a mounting workload are emotional symptoms of stress. Other emotional symptoms include apathy and having no sense of humor. (...)
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Ways in Which Stress Affects You
To complete your understanding of your response to stress, you should be aware of the different ways stress affects you. Stress can manifest itself in physical, cognitive, emotional, or behavioral ways. These symptoms may have other origins than stress, but they are potential indicators of stress that should be considered nonetheless.
There are four physical symptoms that have been associated with stress: sleeping fitfully, agitated behavior, muscle tension, and lack of energy. And among the cognitive symptoms of stress are mental slowness, confusion, constant worry, and difficulty concentrating.
When it comes to the emotional side of stress, these four symptoms are typical: irritation, no sense of humor, frustration, and apathy. Behavioral symptoms of stress include poor work relations, a sense of loneliness, avoiding others, and not taking time to relax.
Exercise - Symptoms of Stress
Match the symptoms of stress to the appropriate categories. Each category may have more than one match.
Options:
A - A sales manager loses sleep thinking about targets.
B - A journalist working on a deadline shows signs of annoyance.
C - An accountant consults an online guide to remember a simple tax rate.
D - A stressed office administrator feels a sense of loneliness.
E - A web site designer feels frustrated because of a heavy workload
F - Stress causes a nurse to constantly worry
Targets:
1 - Physical.
2 - Cognitive.
3 - Emotional.
4 - Behavioral.
Answer:
Losing sleep is an example of one of the physical symptoms associated with stress. Other symptoms include agitated behavior, muscle tension, and lack of energy.
Forgetting simple things because of mental slowness, and constant worrying are both cognitive symptoms of stress. Other symptoms include confusion and difficulty concentrating.
Becoming irritated because of deadline-related stress and feeling frustrated due to a mounting workload are emotional symptoms of stress. Other emotional symptoms include apathy and having no sense of humor. (...)
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Friday, November 6, 2015
Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - Responding to Stress
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You and How Stress Affects You
Pressure can cause you to react in different ways. Sometimes pressure can be an invigorating force that helps you achieve excellent results. But, on the other hand, pressure can be debilitating and hinder your ability to perform. It can be an opportunity for you to thrive, or a threat because it may lead to excessive stress.
To effectively manage your stress, you have to get a better understanding of how you respond to it. There are essentially two aspects to this. First, you need to consider who you are — that is, what characteristics you have that may make you more prone to excessive stress. And second, you need to consider how stress affects you in many different ways.
Responding to Stress
Your response to a stressful situation you experience depends in part on who you are. Who you are is determined by your attitudes, beliefs, and values; your past experience; your personality; and your preferences. So, in what way do think your attitudes, beliefs, and values affect how you experience pressure?
You may think that your attitudes, beliefs, and values affect how you respond to stress because they relate to how you think and feel about pressure. You might have a very positive attitude toward pressure and use it to boost your performance. Or you might view pressure in a negative way and allow it to turn into stress, which can limit your potential.
Beliefs and Values
Your beliefs and values represent what you stand for and what's right and wrong for you. They can cause you to respond negatively to pressure when you're faced with a situation where you're unable to honor them. Or they can give you the inner strength to calmly perform duties that might otherwise create a heavy burden of stress.
For example, Alex is a warehouse supervisor. He usually has a positive attitude toward pressure. He welcomes and uses pressure to push his performance levels at work. But Alex's beliefs and values affect how he responds to the pressure of implementing his company's waste disposal policies. He is a dedicated environmentalist, and he believes that his company doesn't take its recycling responsibilities seriously. He becomes stressed because the waste policies don't feel right to him.
Past Experiences
Your past experiences of dealing with situations that cause pressure and stress will affect how you deal with current and future situations. Whether the past experiences were positive or negative, they'll have had a formative effect on you. How these situations turned out in the past influences how you will feel about upcoming situations.
If you dealt with a stressful situation successfully on a prior occasion, you'll probably be confident dealing with future situation of the same kind. But if your handling of the similar situation in the past went badly, this will make you feel much more uncertain about dealing with the current situation. (...)
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You and How Stress Affects You
Pressure can cause you to react in different ways. Sometimes pressure can be an invigorating force that helps you achieve excellent results. But, on the other hand, pressure can be debilitating and hinder your ability to perform. It can be an opportunity for you to thrive, or a threat because it may lead to excessive stress.
To effectively manage your stress, you have to get a better understanding of how you respond to it. There are essentially two aspects to this. First, you need to consider who you are — that is, what characteristics you have that may make you more prone to excessive stress. And second, you need to consider how stress affects you in many different ways.
Responding to Stress
Your response to a stressful situation you experience depends in part on who you are. Who you are is determined by your attitudes, beliefs, and values; your past experience; your personality; and your preferences. So, in what way do think your attitudes, beliefs, and values affect how you experience pressure?
You may think that your attitudes, beliefs, and values affect how you respond to stress because they relate to how you think and feel about pressure. You might have a very positive attitude toward pressure and use it to boost your performance. Or you might view pressure in a negative way and allow it to turn into stress, which can limit your potential.
Beliefs and Values
Your beliefs and values represent what you stand for and what's right and wrong for you. They can cause you to respond negatively to pressure when you're faced with a situation where you're unable to honor them. Or they can give you the inner strength to calmly perform duties that might otherwise create a heavy burden of stress.
For example, Alex is a warehouse supervisor. He usually has a positive attitude toward pressure. He welcomes and uses pressure to push his performance levels at work. But Alex's beliefs and values affect how he responds to the pressure of implementing his company's waste disposal policies. He is a dedicated environmentalist, and he believes that his company doesn't take its recycling responsibilities seriously. He becomes stressed because the waste policies don't feel right to him.
Past Experiences
Your past experiences of dealing with situations that cause pressure and stress will affect how you deal with current and future situations. Whether the past experiences were positive or negative, they'll have had a formative effect on you. How these situations turned out in the past influences how you will feel about upcoming situations.
If you dealt with a stressful situation successfully on a prior occasion, you'll probably be confident dealing with future situation of the same kind. But if your handling of the similar situation in the past went badly, this will make you feel much more uncertain about dealing with the current situation. (...)
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - Situations that Trigger Pressure
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Pressure Triggers
Everyone reacts differently to pressure. And everyone's pressure trigger is different. There are four work-related factors that can trigger pressure: time pressure, work overload, relationship strain, and a necessity of balancing competing interests. Feeling under time pressure is usually a result of tight deadlines imposed by demanding schedules, and feeling underprepared for tasks.
Time Pressure
The pressure to meet deadlines can be very intense. This is particularly true in situations where other people or functions are depending on the work being completed on time. If a person is given an important task, pressure may be triggered by the feeling of not being prepared because there isn't enough time.
Amber, for example, is an editorial assistant with a publishing company. She has been asked to proofread a new book before it is sent to the Design Department and the Printing Department. Amber feels pressure because she has a tight deadline and because of the difficulty of the task. She feels that she doesn't have enough time to prepare and won't be able to complete the task on time. She doesn't want to cause delays for the other departments.
Work Overload
Work overload is the second main trigger of job pressure. A person faced with a lot of work to do will naturally feel under some pressure. There are two different kinds of work overload: quantitative and qualitative.
Quantitative
A quantitative workload occurs when there's a large quantity of work to do. Jane, for example, works for a company that provides construction materials. At the end of the month, she has to process the invoices for every order. Because there are hundreds of invoices, Jane feels under severe pressure.
Qualitative
A qualitative workload involves work that requires close attention to detail and is time consuming. It differs from a quantitative workload because the emphasis isn't on the scale of the work. The quality of the work is what's important. For example, Kelly is a laboratory technician. Her job is to run a series of tests on samples of drinking water from local reservoirs to determine their purity. This task is very time consuming and intricate. And there's no margin for error. Kelly experiences pressure because of this qualitative work overload.
Relationship Pressure
The third triggering factor is relationship pressure. Working relationships are very important but can be complicated. (...)
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Pressure Triggers
Everyone reacts differently to pressure. And everyone's pressure trigger is different. There are four work-related factors that can trigger pressure: time pressure, work overload, relationship strain, and a necessity of balancing competing interests. Feeling under time pressure is usually a result of tight deadlines imposed by demanding schedules, and feeling underprepared for tasks.
Time Pressure
The pressure to meet deadlines can be very intense. This is particularly true in situations where other people or functions are depending on the work being completed on time. If a person is given an important task, pressure may be triggered by the feeling of not being prepared because there isn't enough time.
Amber, for example, is an editorial assistant with a publishing company. She has been asked to proofread a new book before it is sent to the Design Department and the Printing Department. Amber feels pressure because she has a tight deadline and because of the difficulty of the task. She feels that she doesn't have enough time to prepare and won't be able to complete the task on time. She doesn't want to cause delays for the other departments.
Work Overload
Work overload is the second main trigger of job pressure. A person faced with a lot of work to do will naturally feel under some pressure. There are two different kinds of work overload: quantitative and qualitative.
Quantitative
A quantitative workload occurs when there's a large quantity of work to do. Jane, for example, works for a company that provides construction materials. At the end of the month, she has to process the invoices for every order. Because there are hundreds of invoices, Jane feels under severe pressure.
Qualitative
A qualitative workload involves work that requires close attention to detail and is time consuming. It differs from a quantitative workload because the emphasis isn't on the scale of the work. The quality of the work is what's important. For example, Kelly is a laboratory technician. Her job is to run a series of tests on samples of drinking water from local reservoirs to determine their purity. This task is very time consuming and intricate. And there's no margin for error. Kelly experiences pressure because of this qualitative work overload.
Relationship Pressure
The third triggering factor is relationship pressure. Working relationships are very important but can be complicated. (...)
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - When Pressure Becomes Stress
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Often, people say that they perform well under pressure. Or, that they can't reach optimum performance without some element of pressure. And, yes, I have to admit that it's true. I said it before, pressure can be both energizing and invigorating. However, pressure can have a seriously negative impact when it isn't properly managed.
Poorly managed pressure in the workplace leads to excessive stress. This can be triggered by high profile events and situations. But it can also arise from the relentless daily grind of dealing with minor issues. When someone experiences too much pressure, too often and without a chance to recover, this lead to negative stress. Just as pressure is felt differently by individuals, so is work-related stress. How a person experiences stress depends on the person's personality and how that person manages pressure.
For example, Carl is the owner of an IT company. He enjoys handling important duties such as meeting new customers and finalizing product designs. But he finds that he experiences stress when he has to deal with dozens of minor administration requests on an everyday basis.
Stress-Related Outcomes
Stress can lead to negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, and depression. These emotions result in stress-related outcomes that can disrupt a person's ability to perform at work.
• The first outcome is that the person loses focus.
• The second is the person is unable to make decisions.
• And, the third is that the person is unable to perform under pressure.
Losing focus
Stress can lead to a person losing focus because the pressure the person was experiencing has ceased to be energizing or invigorating. The positive energies have been replaced by negative thoughts that preoccupy or distract a person from the task at hand.
For instance, Tom is an IT project manager. He loses focus during a project to replace a company's outdated operating system. He copes well initially and uses the pressure to drive his performance. But a series of setbacks on the project turns the pressure into negative stress. Tom becomes agitated and irritable. He's distracted because the situation is stressful and forgets to place an important software order. This causes delays in the project and increases his level of stress.
Decision-Making Impairment
Stress affects a person's ability to make the right decisions. To make a decision, a person uses cognitive and emotional intelligences. Stress greatly reduces a person's ability to use these capacities, with the result that the wrong decision is often made.
For example, Corinne is a marketing executive with a bank. She's working on a promotional strategy for a new financial product. Her stress levels are very high. (...)
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Often, people say that they perform well under pressure. Or, that they can't reach optimum performance without some element of pressure. And, yes, I have to admit that it's true. I said it before, pressure can be both energizing and invigorating. However, pressure can have a seriously negative impact when it isn't properly managed.
Poorly managed pressure in the workplace leads to excessive stress. This can be triggered by high profile events and situations. But it can also arise from the relentless daily grind of dealing with minor issues. When someone experiences too much pressure, too often and without a chance to recover, this lead to negative stress. Just as pressure is felt differently by individuals, so is work-related stress. How a person experiences stress depends on the person's personality and how that person manages pressure.
For example, Carl is the owner of an IT company. He enjoys handling important duties such as meeting new customers and finalizing product designs. But he finds that he experiences stress when he has to deal with dozens of minor administration requests on an everyday basis.
Stress-Related Outcomes
Stress can lead to negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, and depression. These emotions result in stress-related outcomes that can disrupt a person's ability to perform at work.
• The first outcome is that the person loses focus.
• The second is the person is unable to make decisions.
• And, the third is that the person is unable to perform under pressure.
Losing focus
Stress can lead to a person losing focus because the pressure the person was experiencing has ceased to be energizing or invigorating. The positive energies have been replaced by negative thoughts that preoccupy or distract a person from the task at hand.
For instance, Tom is an IT project manager. He loses focus during a project to replace a company's outdated operating system. He copes well initially and uses the pressure to drive his performance. But a series of setbacks on the project turns the pressure into negative stress. Tom becomes agitated and irritable. He's distracted because the situation is stressful and forgets to place an important software order. This causes delays in the project and increases his level of stress.
Decision-Making Impairment
Stress affects a person's ability to make the right decisions. To make a decision, a person uses cognitive and emotional intelligences. Stress greatly reduces a person's ability to use these capacities, with the result that the wrong decision is often made.
For example, Corinne is a marketing executive with a bank. She's working on a promotional strategy for a new financial product. Her stress levels are very high. (...)
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
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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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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Monday, November 2, 2015
Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - Course Guidelines
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You might know this. I’m adding it to any course in the introductory section. But, just in case some suggestions to improve your learning.
For a better learning experience change your view settings to HD. Depending on your internet connection the quality of your video lesson should be better on your playing device.
This course includes closed captions, at least in English. So, if you want to watch videos quietly or defeat noise it’s a good idea to turn them on. Or, maybe is just easier for you to take video lessons if you also see the subtitles.
It would be also a good idea to check for additional resources for every video lesson. Most of the time an audio version will be available and a pdf presentation. Some documents will be posted as an independent lesson, but the others will have learning aids in the resources section.
Use the discussion board for questions and to invite our student colleagues to share personal experiences. Interaction will improve your learning. And, I will be here to help. It might not be easy to be the first one to ask a question or make a comment, I know. But, I will take care of it and start a discussion.
If you are on a computer, or iPad type device you can also take notes. I’m not saying you should. But, this is also very helpful to improve retention, and you will find an easy reference if you need to revisit the course. Udemy offers you the option and you will see by yourself that note taking while watching video lectures is highly effective.
There will be some exercises to complement end of section quizzes. For some it would help to stop the video for one or two minutes and try to respond before continuing. Every time I will give the correct answer so you can compare. Of course you can just continue without stopping, but it’s good if you try your hand on the question before comparing.
It might be that, for some exercises, you will need more time and to work on a template. I use this for skill development, and I believe in practice. Most of the time you learn more from this than from my presentation, so take your time and do it as guided.
You are the client, so you have the right to make suggestions and to ask for more. I know you feel the need to be nice and appreciate the effort. But, please if you need something related to the course feel free to ask. I will be here to respond.
At the end of the course a review would be very much appreciated. You are not required of course but, it helps me improve the course and it helps other potential students to make a choice.
For technical issues I might help, if not there is Udemy Technical Support. Whatever is not working, please write me or Udemy.
This is it for now. Happy learning and see you in the course!
Full course: https://www.udemy.com/performance-under-pressure-the-right-attitude/?couponCode=PROMONOW
You might know this. I’m adding it to any course in the introductory section. But, just in case some suggestions to improve your learning.
For a better learning experience change your view settings to HD. Depending on your internet connection the quality of your video lesson should be better on your playing device.
This course includes closed captions, at least in English. So, if you want to watch videos quietly or defeat noise it’s a good idea to turn them on. Or, maybe is just easier for you to take video lessons if you also see the subtitles.
It would be also a good idea to check for additional resources for every video lesson. Most of the time an audio version will be available and a pdf presentation. Some documents will be posted as an independent lesson, but the others will have learning aids in the resources section.
Use the discussion board for questions and to invite our student colleagues to share personal experiences. Interaction will improve your learning. And, I will be here to help. It might not be easy to be the first one to ask a question or make a comment, I know. But, I will take care of it and start a discussion.
If you are on a computer, or iPad type device you can also take notes. I’m not saying you should. But, this is also very helpful to improve retention, and you will find an easy reference if you need to revisit the course. Udemy offers you the option and you will see by yourself that note taking while watching video lectures is highly effective.
There will be some exercises to complement end of section quizzes. For some it would help to stop the video for one or two minutes and try to respond before continuing. Every time I will give the correct answer so you can compare. Of course you can just continue without stopping, but it’s good if you try your hand on the question before comparing.
It might be that, for some exercises, you will need more time and to work on a template. I use this for skill development, and I believe in practice. Most of the time you learn more from this than from my presentation, so take your time and do it as guided.
You are the client, so you have the right to make suggestions and to ask for more. I know you feel the need to be nice and appreciate the effort. But, please if you need something related to the course feel free to ask. I will be here to respond.
At the end of the course a review would be very much appreciated. You are not required of course but, it helps me improve the course and it helps other potential students to make a choice.
For technical issues I might help, if not there is Udemy Technical Support. Whatever is not working, please write me or Udemy.
This is it for now. Happy learning and see you in the course!
Full course: https://www.udemy.com/performance-under-pressure-the-right-attitude/?couponCode=PROMONOW
Friday, October 30, 2015
Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - Course Overview
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So, this will be a short course overview. And we start with the fact that pressure and work go hand in hand.
Hitting deadlines, meeting targets, and making difficult decisions are just some of the activities that can contribute to you feeling under pressure. Because work-related pressure has become so prevalent, you need to be able to handle it effectively.
Pressure isn't always a negative experience. Sometimes experiencing pressure can help you to perform at a higher level. But when pressure isn't handled properly, it can lead to excessive stress.
This can inhibit your performance at work. To deal with pressure effectively, you should approach it with the right attitude.
To develop the right attitude, you first have to be able to identify the triggers that cause you to experience pressure. Then you need to understand how you respond to pressurized situations. A major part of developing the right attitude is accepting that you can't always control the sources of pressure.
This course aims to help you to develop the mental and emotional strength for performing in high pressure situations.
If you're able to identify what causes you to experience pressure, react appropriately, and develop the right attitude, you should be able to thrive in pressurized situations.
And, with this we are ready to dive in. But before a short video containing some course guidelines for a better learning experience.
Full course: https://www.udemy.com/performance-under-pressure-the-right-attitude/?couponCode=PROMONOW
So, this will be a short course overview. And we start with the fact that pressure and work go hand in hand.
Hitting deadlines, meeting targets, and making difficult decisions are just some of the activities that can contribute to you feeling under pressure. Because work-related pressure has become so prevalent, you need to be able to handle it effectively.
Pressure isn't always a negative experience. Sometimes experiencing pressure can help you to perform at a higher level. But when pressure isn't handled properly, it can lead to excessive stress.
This can inhibit your performance at work. To deal with pressure effectively, you should approach it with the right attitude.
To develop the right attitude, you first have to be able to identify the triggers that cause you to experience pressure. Then you need to understand how you respond to pressurized situations. A major part of developing the right attitude is accepting that you can't always control the sources of pressure.
This course aims to help you to develop the mental and emotional strength for performing in high pressure situations.
If you're able to identify what causes you to experience pressure, react appropriately, and develop the right attitude, you should be able to thrive in pressurized situations.
And, with this we are ready to dive in. But before a short video containing some course guidelines for a better learning experience.
Full course: https://www.udemy.com/performance-under-pressure-the-right-attitude/?couponCode=PROMONOW
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Performance Under Pressure: The Right Attitude - About the Course
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Welcome! This is Sorin and you are inside the Performance Under Pressure course. This is the first part of a series of three courses and focuses on Building the Right Attitude. And, you are going to learn how, with the right attitude, you can optimize your performance under pressure.
And, although meeting the challenge of high pressure situations is a different experience for everyone, one thing is constant: you need an attitude that leads to effective and efficient goal-oriented action.
You won't always be able to control the external events that lead to pressure, but you can control your reaction.
This course helps you recognize the events and situations that cause you to feel pressure. It explains how you can understand your reaction to pressure, and how excessive stress can impair your performance.
Finally, it covers the principles for managing your attitude so you stay in control and maintain a success-oriented mentality.
Meeting high-pressure challenges is an opportunity for you to excel and build your reputation as someone who can be counted on.
Individuals who want to develop their abilities to manage the stress that comes with working under pressure and anyone who wants to develop or refine their skills for performing under pressure.
So, I am Sorin, and I will be your instructor. For the last 10 years I have been working as a manager, in various organizations and projects and I had the opportunity to learn from working under pressure. And this is what I am going to share with you.
After completing this topic, you should be able to:
identify factors in a situation likely to trigger pressure
recognize how your response to pressure can impair your performance
conduct a stress profile
recognize how to manage your attitude in pressurized situations
Next
Thank you for watching. Next you are going to have a short course overview, followed by a video on how to use Udemy for a better learning experience. And after, you are going to learn what is and how to deal with pressure by building a success attitude.
Full course: https://www.udemy.com/performance-under-pressure-the-right-attitude/?couponCode=PROMONOW
Welcome! This is Sorin and you are inside the Performance Under Pressure course. This is the first part of a series of three courses and focuses on Building the Right Attitude. And, you are going to learn how, with the right attitude, you can optimize your performance under pressure.
And, although meeting the challenge of high pressure situations is a different experience for everyone, one thing is constant: you need an attitude that leads to effective and efficient goal-oriented action.
You won't always be able to control the external events that lead to pressure, but you can control your reaction.
This course helps you recognize the events and situations that cause you to feel pressure. It explains how you can understand your reaction to pressure, and how excessive stress can impair your performance.
Finally, it covers the principles for managing your attitude so you stay in control and maintain a success-oriented mentality.
Meeting high-pressure challenges is an opportunity for you to excel and build your reputation as someone who can be counted on.
Individuals who want to develop their abilities to manage the stress that comes with working under pressure and anyone who wants to develop or refine their skills for performing under pressure.
So, I am Sorin, and I will be your instructor. For the last 10 years I have been working as a manager, in various organizations and projects and I had the opportunity to learn from working under pressure. And this is what I am going to share with you.
After completing this topic, you should be able to:
identify factors in a situation likely to trigger pressure
recognize how your response to pressure can impair your performance
conduct a stress profile
recognize how to manage your attitude in pressurized situations
Next
Thank you for watching. Next you are going to have a short course overview, followed by a video on how to use Udemy for a better learning experience. And after, you are going to learn what is and how to deal with pressure by building a success attitude.
Full course: https://www.udemy.com/performance-under-pressure-the-right-attitude/?couponCode=PROMONOW
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Choosing the Right Decision-Making Style
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Problem-solving and Decision Making Strategies - Choosing the Right Decision-Making Style
Understanding decision-making styles and the use of decision-making styles.
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Problem-solving and Decision Making Strategies - Choosing the Right Decision-Making Style
Understanding decision-making styles and the use of decision-making styles.
Full course: https://www.udemy.com/problem-solving-and-decision-making/?couponCode=PROMONOW
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