Workplace is a space where you can be faced by a lot of challenges and challenges come with stress. Workplace stress is not uncommon. The effects of stress also lie in your emotional and physical health. While stress is good for you, it helps you work hard, stay focused, be energetic, meet challenges that come in your way. You also tend to stay alert to take care of many things that should cost you huge mistakes when you work under stress.
As a working professional, you may have long working hours, deadlines that you can’t meet on time, increasing demands that makes you feel worried, drained and lots of overwhelming emotions. We have seen how is stress good for you, now let’s see how stress cannot be good for you. When you cannot cope, when you feel helpless, starts to hamper your thoughts to move forward or find a way forward, you are not satisfied with your job; that is when stress is harmful.
When you reach a certain level, you have people who work under you and you have to manage a team. The purpose of team is to help you meet your goals and help you work by doing certain work so that you can focus on more important things. When you work with a team, there can be certain difficulties that you can face. Sometimes you tend to command them to finish the work, you may try to exert control over them so that they may not be able to take advantage of you. The Gen Z is a population who is very well versed with technology and they can get things done easily. With them knowing technology and how they can get things done, to manage such team can be difficult. The Gen Z require coaching, understanding and guidance rather than command and control to get the job done.
The other workplace stress includes:
- Fear of being laid off
- Having to do work overtime
- Pressure to perform to meet rising expectations but with no increase in job satisfaction
- Pressure to work at optimum levels all the time
You cannot control everything in your work environment, but that doesn’t mean you are powerless, no matter how difficult is the situation.
With strengths based coaching, you can discover your strengths and use them in your favor to know how to manage your teams and organize your tasks at work. It is said that work on your strengths rather than your weaknesses to find a way ahead.
Strengths coaching falls under Positive Psychology. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of strengths that enable the individuals and communities to thrive. This field of Psychology is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves and to enhance their experiences in various walks of life (Positive Psychology Center). Positive Psychology Coach uses coaching as a medium to help you thrive with your strengths and cultivate what is best within you.
