| Response: Things that Energize You: - Work that encourages enactment of personal values
- Opportunity to help and affirm others
- A cooperative, open, congenial atmosphere
- Being appreciated and valued as an individual
- Recognition and respect for expertise and contributions to the organization
- A relaxed, flexible approach to deadlines
Your Stressors: - Multiple tasks, demands, and roles
- Rigid structures and time pressures
- Conflict and hostility in the workplace
- Insufficient time to work alone
- Controlling, demanding, or confronting people
- A political climate that demands conformity to values or procedures that are unacceptable to you
- Negativity and excessive criticism from others
- Fear of impending loss and separation
- Violation of values
Chronic Stress Reactions (when stressed you are more likely to experience...) - Cynicism, distrust and disappointment
- General and global negativity, criticism of others
- A martyr attitude
- Depression, hopelessness
- Alternating active and passive aggression
- Loss of confidence and sense of competence
- Judgments of incompetence of self and others
- Aggressive criticism of self and others
- Precipitous action
Resources and Remedies for Stress - Get upset, but hide it from others, it's acknowledge your feelings but don't invite others to engage with you by showing it
- Reflect, meditate on personal values, priorities
- Take time for fun; engage in relaxing activities
- Talk to close friends and associates
- Have time alone for as long as needed
- Refocus on what is right rather than what is wrong
- Take time alone until it expires on its own
- Seek out ways to have your feelings validated
- Avoid others of trying to reason with you or ask those trying to reason with you to leave you alone until you have worked some things out on your own
New Knowledge from the Unexpected Use of The Inferior Function: - Acceptance of your power needs
- Acknowledgement of your competence
- Moderated idealism
No matter what the personality, there are some tell tale signs that your colleagues are finding a situation stressful. They may: - start to get angry,
- lose their sense of humour, or
- start having tunnel vision - where they are unable to take in any new information or see any other persepctives.
If you see these things in others, its time to help with stress management. There are also some universal recommendations for managing stress. The UK's Mental Health Foundation gives a good summary of these in a Top 10 List of things you can do to manage stress. You can use these yourself, and help others to take these positive steps. However, what you do you do to manage people in stress especially knowing that different personalities need different things? You want your best intentions to be well received, but when people are already stressed, you want to make sure that you are helping, and not adding to the problems. The good news for stress management is that stress reactions are linked to our inferior functions and so rather than having to understand all 16 personalities, there are only 8 main categories. Click on each of the following to see what energizes them, what is likely to stress them out, what a stress reaction looks like for them, and how you can help them get back to equilibrium. Considering what you have learned in this lesson, answer the following: - What have you learned to look out for in yourself, to catch the early signs you are experiencing distress?
- What are the top three things you are able to do for yourself to better manage stress in your life? Identify each and explain why they will be valuable to you.
- What is the most important thing you have learned about recognizing when others are becoming stressed? How will this be useful to you in your professional life?
- What is the most important thing you have learned about helping others when they are experiencing stressful situations? How will this be useful to you in your professional life?
As always, be sure to integrate concepts from the lesson and cite where appropriate. |
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