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Three Ways to Reduce Workplace Stress

Guest post by: Shaun Belding

Article Overview: Do you feel as though the stress levels in your workplace seem to have escalated over the last ten years or so? I don't think it's your imagination.

Three Ways to Reduce Workplace Stress

Do you feel as though the stress levels in your workplace seem to have escalated over the last ten years or so? I don't think it's your imagination. Requests for my company's teambuilding and workplace development programs have tripled in the last three years. Last year alone, over a million people "Googled" workplace stress related search terms such as difficult situations, difficult people, bad bosses, mean coworkers, nasty customers, etc. Nope, if you're feeling stress, you're not alone. More and more research is pointing to stress as a growing factor for in all of our lives. One study released last year, Voices of Canadians: Seeking Work-Life Balance (Duxbury, Higgins & Coghill) confirmed that stress at work is is negatively impacting us both at work and at home. Similar studies in the US, Australia and other countries show that the escalation of stress is a worldwide phenomenon.

What can we do about this workplace stress? Here are three recommendations that came from the Duxbury, Higgins & Coghill study:

1. Put things into perspective

Learn to recognize what (if anything) is truly worth losing sleep over. In the overall scheme of things, is this a life-changing event, or just an annoyance? Learn to ignore the annoyances.

2. Focus on what is going well - not what is stressful

At any given moment, something in your life is going right (honest - it is!). Concentrate on the wins in life, not the losses.

3. Find a job you enjoy

When you enjoy what you do, it makes it easier to deal with heavy workloads and stressful situations.

Good Luck!

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