Over the last 25 years there has been a growing awareness of the importance of stress in the workplace. Going back before this and few peopole would even recognise it let alone admit to feeling stressed. A situation faily similar to the developing world where diagnosiss of stress is more rare even though life may be much harder. Nowadays t is recognised that stress can be a killer and that many f the illnesses we suffer in modern life may in fact be stress related.

To e an effective manager you must be able to manage yourself as well as your time.  When managers are stressed thet don’t perform well as managers and don’t make good decsions and are unabe to offer support to their teams.

We believe in the workplace that stress is often related to how you use your time. For exampel if you spend excessive hours at work you are much more likley to suffer from stress. If you know of cooleagues or friends weho manage more balanced lives and get more exercise then you may instiinctively know this bolsters resilience to stress.

If there is such a thing as stress management then it must start with learning how to recognise very quickly that pressure has become “distress”. It  is easy to get tunnel vision when we are under pressure (in fact it is how our brain functions during fight or flight our peripheral vision is lost)

Learning to manage your time can certainly reduce one source of stress work overload. There may be other factors and stress management requires you to carefully analyse your situation and see what particulalr factors are affecting you . You need to be aware of these factors if you are to manage them..

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