Stress Awareness Day: Are you at risk?
Today is National Stress Awareness Day. We’ll spare you the (dismal) statistics and simply make the following observations relevant to corporate life: – Pressure is good, stress is bad for you and for your business – Presenteeism (working while you...I just can’t think!
I see a problem in organisations. People’s diaries are so full that they rush from one meeting to the next. They don’t even leave space for the time it gets to take the lift to the next meeting room. Worst of all – there’s no time, space or silence in which to...
Second Hand Stress
I was asked for some expert comment on the radio about second hand stress. A recent study claims that stress is as contagious as the common cold and that you can actually ‘catch’ other people’s anxieties. Passive or second hand stress can become...