How to Reduce and Manage Stress at Work

1. How to Reduce and Manage Stress
at Work Svetlana Pushkareva BUS 68

2. Prioritize Tasks
Make a list
of tasks you
Have to do
Tackle task in
order of
importance
Do the high-
priority items
first

3. Improve your time management
and organization skills
• Get a to do list
that works
• Learn to say "no”
• Ask for help when
you need it
• Stop setting unrealistic
goals for yourself

4. Spend more time with optimistic people
• Negative people will pull
you down to their level • Choose to work with people
who have a positive
attitude instead

5. Create a balanced schedule
• Analyze your schedule,
responsibilities, and daily tasks
• Try to find a balance between work and
family life

6. Take more breaks from your work
Even a five-minute break will
help
Get away from your desk

7. Fix your environment
lighting
temperature
noise level

8. Laugh more, stress less
• Humor can help reduce stress by providing a positive way of looking
at problems.
• Humor can also help you perceive what's ridiculous or absurd in a
situation.
• To promote humor in your life, follow these steps:
 Be open to humor
 Give yourself permission to
laugh, even during tough times
 Surround yourself with humor
 Share your humor
 Tell a funny true story
to a co-worker or friend

9. Resolve conflict positively
• Resolving conflict in healthy, constructive ways can strengthen
trust between people and relieve workplace stress and tension
• When handling emotionally-charged situations, stay focused in
the present by disregarding old hurts and resentments
• Connect with your emotions
• Hear both the words and the nonverbal cues being used
• If a conflict can’t be resolved, choose to end the argument, even
if you still disagree.

10. References
www.familybusiness.about.com/od/worklifebalance/tp/stressquicktips
www.helpguide.prg/articles/stress/stress-at-work.htm
www.lifescript.com/health/a-z/mayo/l/laugh_more_stress_less.aspx