The Stress Work Book - How Individuals, Teams and Organisations Can Balance Pressure and Performance (Paperback)

This new edition of the well established and critically acclaimed, comprehensive, easy-to-use and accessible work book provides a wealth of practical answers to these questions by focusing on the individual, the manager, the team and the organization as a whole with a range of tried-and-tested techniques. A brand new chapter focuses on stress counselling and other techniques to take the stress out of stress management.

The authors place stress management within the mainstream of management skills. They dispel some popular myths, draw on current best practice and provide a straightforward guide to a topic that has vital implications for performance at work.

The problem -- up to now -- with stress management has been in knowing how to manage it:
-- Can you 'relax' when you know that is needed?
-- Do you know the five key action areas that create stress fitness?
-- As a manager could you coach someone with a stress problem even when under pressure yourself?
-- Can you use team stress to maintain high performance?

"Impressive, easy to read and understand....a must for anyone in the business of stress management" -- Counselling at Work

"So excellent in satisfying the expectations of its title that it is actually difficult to find fault with it. It will be immensely useful to all those tackling high stress levels in their lives, whether on a personal work level or on an organizational one". -- Stress News