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Upshift: How to Turn Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity

Leading Blog

And too little of the associated stress is not good. But with too much stress we become overloaded, and we just feel like shutting down. We start to move toward this sweet spot when we switch from perceiving a stressful situation as a challenge rather than a threat. We have all formed over time how we deal with stress. “A

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Leading Thoughts for April 11, 2024

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Source: Brave Together: Lead by Design, Spark Creativity, and Shape the Future with the Power of Co-Creation II. Knowing your principles doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to practice them, particularly under stress or pressure. People running full speed toward their dreams know this feeling. But it’s fleeting.

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Help for the Overwhelmed Working Manager

Let's Grow Leaders

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team. What should I do?”

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Overloaded at Work: How to Ask For the Support You Need

Let's Grow Leaders

Constraints are the gateway to creativity. For Managers: Powerful Phrases for Supporting Your Overwhelmed or Overloaded Team First, if you’re a manager, here are a few frequently uttered unhelpful phrases. As a manager, you want to do what you can to prevent the snowball of overwhelm from picking up speed as it rolls downhill.

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5 Ways to Remove Stress from Management

Lead Change Blog

I’d been at the company for five years but had never tried my hand at management, so I thought, ‘why not?’. Managing teams is incredibly difficult, stressful and challenging. Leading a team is something else entirely but comes hand-in-hand with management if you want to be a great boss. Even managers.

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The Toxic Stress Caused By Low Self-Esteem Leaders

The Horizons Tracker

The link between stress and a multitude of serious illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes, asthma, cancer, osteoporosis, anxiety, depression, insomnia, memory loss, and premature aging, has been well-established by a vast body of research. “With good leaders motivating teams to be creative and productive.

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The Secret Steps to Using Stress to Your Advantage

Lead Change Blog

Why do we have stress? What causes us to feel that stress? Why do we choose the coping responses we choose when stress arises? Are there other, better coping strategies that could turn any kind of stress to our advantage? Step 1: Get to know what stress is and why it exists. That is pretty amazing, actually!

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