How do you perform during stress

The Academy of Management is looking for articles on new theories of managing organisations and I got to thinking about performance-and-stress relationships because although not new, managing such environments that are highly stressful do have a new twist due to many factors: ever changing technologies, multi-cultural multi-generational employees, outsource-insource partnerships, virtual collaborations, social media, politics and more.

Just as an example, resiliency during stressful crunch times produces two groups of survivors - those who rise about the corporate drama and forge on and those who get involved too much in the stress and struggle. Both get to complete the projects when good managers are around to provide the necessary support and learn when to back off but managing the after-effect will be driven by how managers really know their people. Teams are very much more varied and diverse now than they used to be and realizing potentials and continually engaging team members for continued organisational profit can turn the most mild manner manager silently screaming without appropriate coaching, mentoring, and knowledge of managing the 21st century workforce.

TAGS: Leadership, Management, Stress Management, Workforce

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