Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Stress Management...

In today's fast life many employees undergo mental stress, every employee in an organization tries to show his/her performance in different way. More Positive the performance more is the success...simple mantra!! but for that you need to face tremendous amount of mental stress, that's why we need to control and manage the stress to achieve highest performance.

There are three types of people in every organization :
1. People who can do anything and everything
2. People who don't have any goals, "Time fillers" at work
3. The average performs, people who "swim" with the flow

and when these different kinds of people come together, its necessary for the manager to study there work habits and abilities and think about "Stress management".

While working in the team, all people don't have same "Stress", there are also three type of people in the team :
1. Boss Fearful - People who are fearsome of Boss, they just start shivering once they hear boss's name, they cant even talk with the boss.
2. Boss Addicts - People who do boss's work within the time, they try to follow every order given by boss within time, they are the A+ cards of the boss
3. Boss Warriors - People who can fool boss, they can find out defects in boss working style and get him in the trouble and after that they help boss to come out of that artificial trouble and try to impress him with this image
All these people undergo diffrent kinda stress levels,Whenever person is under stress, his body and behavior shows following signs :

1. Depression
2. Fatigue
3. Insomnia
4. Nightmares
5. Emotional instability
6. Avoiding food
7. Blood pressure and other diseases
8. Insecurity, caring, instability
9. Alcohol and drugs
10. Increase in smoking

Following are the tips or mantras to control and manage the stress -
A. Give priority to right tasks:
There is no one on the earth who is 100% complete at work. Analyze work in front of you, prioritize it and then try to do it, this will help you in managing the stress.

B. Task Listing :
Analyze daily work, make list of it, there are few things which are negative or you don't like, try to fit them in your "happy-slot",try to work on them positively.

C. Sleep :
Sleeping is a source to increase energy of your body. Correct sleep is more important than less or more sleep. Think about your days work before sleeping, get up early in the morning and go through days schedule, it will be fruitful.

D. Big "I" :
Organization runs coz of "me", everyone should follow "my" word, "I" am the one who drives the company...mistake guys, you should remove these kinds of feelings from your mind, there are many who are more brillient than you in the organization, keep this in your mind.

E. Excersise :
Have a habit of walking daily for half hour in a free air, it will reduce fear, instability etc and help you to stay happy. Yoga,Gym and Pranayam are very helpful "Tools" in managing the stress, use them.

F. Diet :
Avoid oily food, give preference to green vegetables and fruits, do enough breakfast, good lunh and light dinner at night.

G. Family first :
Give importance to family, Give time to your parents, husband/wife and children, have a good conversation with family whenevr you get time, have dinner together.

H. Life apart from work :
Be social, listen to good music, involve yourself in art,dancing,games, have passion for skill improvement in areas other than working. Those get involves in these things are more happier.

Its your work, your mind and your stress...try to manage it, then see..life is all yours !!

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