Workplace Stress

Nobody knows better than millennial and Gen Z professionals how rapid technological development has inundated post-pandemic work. Organizational researcher Craig Mattson listens to their stories and builds a framework for coping with digital overwhelm at work. This book won’t tell you to declutter your digital life or to end capitalism now. But what you can do, suggests Professor Mattson, is change how you attend to zones where technological disruption meets emotional pressure. Calling these zones modes of communication, this book urges you to practice mode-switching.

The importance of emotional intelligence cannot be overstated. Those who do have it excel at communication, thrive in relationships, and manage workplace stress effortlessly. Those who don't have it struggle with each of these aspects and find it hard to lead successful lives. Through emotional intelligence, you can expertly manage workplace stress, build better relationships, become more self-aware, and grow to be an excellent communicator with those around you.

Stress is believed to trigger 70 percent of visits to doctors and 85 percent of serious illnesses. So there are clearly strong economic and financial reasons for organisations to manage and reduce stress at work, aside from the obvious humanitarian and ethical considerations.

Learn how to position yourself to either save your job or quickly find a new one by empowering yourself and making it clear just how much value you provide. Learn how to create better relationships at work and be happier at work through the actionable advice and information in this audiobook. The happier and more fulfilled you are at work, the happier and more fulfilled you will be in your life.

This book explores and answers 101 dilemmas that we encounter at work, with topics that include time management, goal-setting, conflict, job dissatisfaction, unemployment, and even workplace trysts. The authors emphasize practical learning and coping, not esoteric insights or metaphysics, applying concrete solutions from Buddhist teachings to real problems in easily digestible chunks.

Part of being an executive is leading companies to success. As such, when an executive is experiencing extreme and prolonged stress, anxiety, isolation, and depression - what I’m calling “executive loneliness” - they often do nothing to address it for fear of appearing unsuccessful. Not addressing it exacerbates the negative and difficult feelings to the point where it becomes more and more difficult for them to function. It takes a toll on their whole life.

Stell dir vor, du bist in einem wichtigen Meeting und plötzlich wirst du mit einer kritischen Frage konfrontiert, die du nicht erwartet hast. Dein Herzschlag beschleunigt sich, dein Kopf fühlt sich leer an, und du wünschst dir, dass dir genau jetzt die perfekte Antwort einfällt. Wenn du solche Momente kennst, dann bist du nicht allein. Viele Menschen fühlen sich in solchen Situationen unsicher und überfordert. Genau hier kommt die Schlagfertigkeit ins Spiel.

Quiet Quit & Fully Live is a thought-provoking exploration of the quiet quitting phenomenon, challenging the negative connotations it often carries. The book explores how stepping back from over-engagement at work can lead to a more balanced life, enhanced personal well-being, and surprisingly, a boost in workplace productivity. It argues that by setting healthy boundaries, individuals can reignite their passion for their roles and bring a renewed sense of purpose to their teams.

Packed with useful tips that make it easy to incorporate CBT—Cognitive Behavioral Therapy—into your working day, CBT at Work For Dummies helps you reap the benefits of a more focused working life. You'll discover how integrating CBT at work promotes improved productivity and concentration, lower staff turnover, enhanced employer-employee and client relationships, reduced cost of staff absenteeism caused by illness, injury, stress, and more.

Stress is all around us every day and is inevitable and unavoidable. How do we live the life we always wanted? How do we manage stress? How do we acquire stress management skills? In this book, you will learn specific, step-by-step strategies and gain information to take stress under your control, once and for all.

Ever feel like you’re so busy and stressed that you forget to breathe? Bill Mitchell is here to help. A psychologist who specialises in rebalancing the lives of the overwhelmed, overstressed and overscheduled, in this book Bill brings you tried and tested, practical solutions that will help you protect your energy and prioritise what is most important. Find out how to prevent the drift towards burnout and poor mental health that so many of us suffer from in our busy modern lives. Your family - and your boss - will thank you.

Bestselling author, leading sociologist and economist Juliet Schor makes the case for a four-day work week, persuasively showing how this model can address major challenges such as burnout, AI and the climate crisis, and how employees, companies, and governments can work together to make it a reality.

You wake up tired to a blaring alarm, forcing yourself through your morning routine, feeling like you’re just going through the motions. As you get ready for work, your anxiety builds, dreading the thought of facing your toxic boss and an overwhelming workload. At work, you struggle to focus on tasks and feel easily distracted. The weight of the day and anxiety build, and you worry about your performance and the judgment of your toxic boss and colleagues.

Digitale Transformation und digitaler Stress: Für Sozialwissenschaftler David Bausch ist beides untrennbar miteinander verbunden. Digitale Belastungsfaktoren lauern an den unterschiedlichsten Stellen in unserem Arbeitsalltag. Der daraus resultierende Stress kann uns nicht nur stark belasten, er ist auch Gift für unsere mentale Gesundheit. David Bausch beleuchtet die Schattenseiten der digitalisierten Arbeitswelt, die für viele bereits spürbar, aber nur wenigen bekannt sind. Er erklärt, wie das digitale Stress-Bewertungs-System funktioniert und dessen steigende Relevanz für unseren Alltag.

One Deloitte survey of US professionals found that 77 percent of respondents have experienced burnout at their current job. This ongoing burnout can push you to the brink of a physical and mental breakdown. The good news is that with the right guidance and advice, you’ll not only develop the strength to defeat burnout…you’ll also know how to stop it from ever creeping back into your life again. And it all starts with using this guide to find the right “microculture” for you. Start living your life the way you want.

Calm the Mind and the Body Will Follow is your trusted, uplifting guide toward fully embracing calmness and clarity! With patience, compassion, and commitment, you’ll soon find yourself making sounder decisions and developing more genuine relationships with others.

Want to become a more mindful leader? With Mindful Leadership for Dummies, you'll find accessible and authoritative guidance for cultivating focus, clarity, and creativity from within your colleagues. Packed full of useful tips, this friendly how-to guide will help you incorporate mindfulness in your leadership style to manage and reap the benefits of a more attentive working life-all while nurturing compassion in the service of others.

For anyone who is burned out, demotivated, the stressful and the quitters. In this audiobook, I'm sharing with you how one could eliminate anxiety at the workplace. There is a difference between eliminating and managing. You should be able to reignite your passion with the tips to not only control but to completely eliminate your anxiety.

This program teaches how to avoid 6 common violations of workplace courtesy including: shooting the messenger, disturbing the peace, mismanaging meetings, and stealing a co-worker's time. Part 2 gives 7 Simple Rules of Workplace Etiquette that, when followed, will make any workplace more pleasant and more efficient.

We spend over 90,000 hours of our lives in the workplace, suppressing parts of ourselves to fit into the “culture.” What we don’t realize is that it’s stifling our creativity—and even killing us. With that in mind, what advice would you give your younger self about embracing who you are in the workplace? In Unmask Your Brilliance, global executive advisor and prominent business technology voice Michelle Mehrnoosh Bazargan unveils an "insider's" perspective on workplace pressures for conformity and false narratives, all while providing practical tools to overcome them.