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6 Ways to Just Say No to Stress

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Our culture is filled with more anxiety and stress than ever. The result of all of this is chaos and chaos creates stress. Stress is a killer. If there was such a thing as a stress meter, I would have been afraid to know what the numbers were at the time. Endorphins are stress killers! That’s right. Get moving.

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Leaders: Tame the Brain’s Fight-or-Flight Response and Give Helpful Feedback

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Fear and Stress There are a number of reasons given for the feedback gap. But the most common and hard-to-budge problem experienced by leaders is the fear and stress they experience when attempting to talk honestly to an employee or colleague about the need to improve, why they need to improve, and how they can improve.

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20 Articles to Help Leaders Navigate the COVID 19 Crisis

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Leadership Resiliency: Handling Stress, Uncertainty, and Setback (CCL) 17. Video Leadership: How To Lead From Home During The Coronavirus Crisis )Forbes) 14. Best Practices for Managing Virtual Teams and Meetings (CCL) 15. How to Lead Through a Crisis (CCL) 16. Coronavirus: How to Be the Leader Your People Need Right Now (Bain) 18.

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5 Tips for Inspiring Leadership

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Tip #3 - Build Relationship and Community The most inspiring leaders know that we all need each other, and that during times of stress and change we need to feel connected and part of something larger than ourselves. If you viewed the challenges of present circumstances as an opportunity for the future, what would it look like?

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Why Burnout Should Alarm Executive Leaders

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With the pressures of the job mounting and the digital stress of computers, phones, and blackberries; it’s just getting worse. Work stress cost businesses $300 billion per year in absenteeism, loss of talented employees, health costs, and programs to reduce stress. It’s just not healthy.

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Leading Into the Acceleration of Change

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When we experience acute stress, our brains shut down in self-survival. The two key triggers of psychological stress are the perception that there is no control over present circumstances, and there is no way to predict what comes next. We prepare to fight, flight, or freeze, not explore possibilities. Creativity is paralyzed.

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Leading Like the Energizer Bunny

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Use these 4 techniques to manage your energy, decrease your stress, and become a much more effective leader. Beth Armknecht Miller coaching energy stress management' Focus on those things that are providing the most value to the organization and those things that use your strengths not your challenges.

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