Your boss is pressing you to meet a challenging deadline. You have a tigers black hats presentation to give that you haven't had time to prepare. Your finances have taken a dive and you don't have enough to pay the mortgage. Your partner is threatening to leave you because you spend too tigers black hats much time at work. In case these pressures aren't enough, the one person you depend on for support at work has just gone off sick.
If this was your situation, do you think you might feel stressed? Most would, some wouldn't.
Those who wouldn't can be described as being ‘stress resilient', according to Graham W. Price, Chartered Psychologist, development trainer and executive coach. He says that to be stress resilient you need to be able to focus only on what needs to be done and to always take appropriate and effective action, despite significant or multiple pressures.?
Stress costs business billions every year. It diminishes motivation and effectiveness and has been estimated to be a root cause of 80% of absence from work, either directly through
In Price's experience, he used to be off work a few days each year with minor illnesses such as colds or flu. Since he eliminated stress from his life 20 years ago, he's never had a day off work (except once due to injury). He affirms this to be true of many other people he knows and particularly of everyone he's trained in these techniques.
Some stress management trainings focus on persuading us to resolve our problems or other sources of stress, which of course is sensible, to the extent we're able to. Others teach relaxation techniques, which can be helpful in the short term but are not generally a reliable way of avoiding stress. ?Some stress management consultants put the responsibility on the organisation, suggesting it's the job of the employer to ensure employees aren't stressed. This is certainly true in extreme cases, but is rarely the answer to avoiding most day-to-day stresses.
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