How do you manage stress?
April is Stress Awareness Month
From this emerged the concept of an SUI – a Significant Unresolved Issue. Over decades, I experimented with thousands of people, getting them to list the things they needed to think or work through and the level of anxiety they felt about not yet having done so. After a while, I scaled these, with 10 for being in a total panic and 1 being something you’d like to have time to attend to but where the consequences of not doing so are minor. Attempts to create a working index – for example, a general average score that people could use to recognise when they needed to step back and find time to think – proved impractical. However, I found that most people can benefit from regularly listing their SUIs, with levels of anxiety for each item, and observing the patterns that emerge. These patterns are different for everyone, but being aware of them allows us to pause and create reflective space
To a large extent, coaching and mentoring
The first lesson was that such conversations require a level of tranquillity – the time and space to devote quality thinking time
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Framing gradually gives way to a deeper level of reflection. Who else shares responsibility for this? What assumptions am I making? What am I not noticing? What am I avoiding? We call this stage?Implications.?
Toing and froing between Framing and Implications eventually (like rubbing two sticks together) produces a flash of?Insight. Suddenly, we see the issue differently and more clearly. That allows us to?Reframe, seeing the issue in a different light. That in turn generates new possibilities or?Options; and, having resolved the issue in part or whole, we are motivated to?Action, deciding what we are now going to do differently.
If you do your deep thinking walking or running, you may notice that the closer you get to Insight, the slower you move. You may even stop entirely at the point of Insight; then gradually pick up pace again as you process your new understanding. This is because the closer to Insight you get, the harder your brain is working and taking from your blood the oxygen that would otherwise be going to your legs. As your brain drops down a gear or two, the blood oxygen can return to your muscles. Clearing anxieties in this way makes you more effective, less stressed and more focussed.??
??David Clutterbuck 2022
Talent and Leadership Consulting
2 年Highly appreciate the insights, Prof David Thanks
Executive Coach for Transformational Leadership | Speaker | Neuroscientist | Nonviolent Communication trainer | The Empathic Leader course | ?? Emotional Intelligence ?? Empathy ?? Authenticity
2 年Thanks so much, David. Neuroscience research shows that we resonate with each other in deep ways. I believe that all leaders and people in management and supporting roles need to learn to destress and keep themselves calm and centered. It is a duty to replenish and to regulate one's stress. It affects everyone around us, our emotional states ooze out. Let's bring it into leadership trainings"
Chief People Officer (CPO)
2 年Thanks for sharing David. In completing your Talent Wave publication many years ago we were discussing the topic of stress and the impact and contributory factors etc….. Little did we know how the workplace would evolve so dramatically with stress becoming omnipresent and a critical focus area on every organisations well being agenda. The search for a deeper understanding continues for generation alpha.