MANAGE STRESS TO IMPROVE WORK PERFORMANCE AND HEALTH

We can’t avoid stress.

 

It’s part of a normal day .  At work there are customer demands and deadlines, traffic that keeps getting worse both morning and evening, and from the moment the alarm rings to bedtime, people struggle to cope with busy family schedules.  It’s hard to find time to decompress, to relax.  And the constant pressure is causing health issues – headaches, sleep problems, immune system weakness, muscle tension that causes backache.  The list is long – lots of small aches and pains and sometimes some big problems like heart disease or high blood pressure.

 

Do you have stress in your life?  The bottom line is that everyone does.  I remember when a researcher asked me if I felt stress on a regular basis, I said  “no, not really”.  He laughed and made me realize that I was kidding myself.  Stress is part of every day for all of us.  And the consistent stress we all experience causes interesting chemical changes in our bodies.  Many of them aren’t so good for us.

 

STRESS MANAGEMENT CAN BE LEARNED.

I was amazed, but I learned that it is possible to control and manage your body’s response to the environmental stress.  Yes, stress can be managed.  It’s not hard to learn.  The folks at HeartMath have done a lot of research on this topic.  And Proactive Partners have teamed up with the HeartMath folks to bring stress management skills to the workplace.  Why the workplace?  First, ongoing stress will generally make an employee less productive, less effective.  Managing the response to stress can actually make a person more focused, can help the person make smarter/better decisions despite the stress, can improve problem solving skills, can enhance performance. And then there’s the health costs that companies are dealing with as a result of people not effectively coping with stress.  So a company has two reasons to teach people to manage stress.  Check out www.beproactive.com and  www.HeartMath.com

 

ARE YOU STRESSED?

Here are some stress quizzes you might find interesting. 

 

http://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/tc/interactive-tool-what-is-your-stress-level-what-does-this-tool-measure

 

http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/life-change-stress-test

 

http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/resiliency-quiz

 

EXERCISE IS ANOTHER WAY TO MANAGE STRESS.

Something as simple as light exercise can make a difference in a person’s ability to control and manage stress.  This WebMD article talks about the benefits -

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/guide/exercise-benefits.  Proactive Partners experts can bring exercise to the workplace that will help with stress and health for employees.  Go to www.beproactive.com to find out about their coach solution - it's a process that will really connect with your employees.

 

MANAGE STRESS FOR SUCCESS.

Controlling one’s reaction to stress has long been recognized as a key skill.  Thomas Jefferson said,  "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances

 

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