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- A common coping mechanism for leaders is to push through stress, fatigue, and fear. But that’s succeeding in spite of your emotions, when it’s far better to thrive because of your emotions. You have to learn to accept your anxiety — even though this may seem uncomfortable or counterintuitive.
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May 11, 2020 · Many successful leaders react to anxiety by working harder, holding themselves and others to an impossibly high standard, or trying to control things that are beyond their power.
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- The use of negative language. Too often we focus on nonverbal communication as a signal for conveying emotions — how we move our hands, or which facial expressions we make — when in reality, the words we say are more likely to convey how we feel and what we think.
- Unusual or erratic actions. We often celebrate spontaneity and unpredictability as critical ingredients of creativity, as if they were integral components of a free spirit.
- Emotional volatility. Excitable bosses are like a roller coaster — they may be fun for sensation seekers, but they are stressful for almost everyone else.
- Excessive pessimism. We live in a world — especially in the West — that stigmatizes negativity and condemns pessimism as if it were a psychological problem.
May 27, 2020 · Stress takes a toll on a leader’s personal well-being and effectiveness in the following ways: Decision making. The pressure of time constraints can reduce concentration, limit creativity, and make it difficult to process information. People may also default to thinking in extremes.
May 11, 2020 · How have the leaders you’ve studied helped their followers through the uncertainty and stress of the crises they faced? With a combination of brutal honesty and credible hope.
Apr 8, 2024 · Stress is a common issue in the workplace. But leaders can follow some practical strategies to support their team and prevent the problem spiraling out of control.
- Sally Percy
Dec 16, 2019 · Following the call of recent reviews on leadership and well-being, the purpose of this study is to examine how and when two contrasting leadership styles, transformational leadership (TFL) and passive-avoidant leadership (PAL), are related to employees’ anxiety and thereby either promote or inhibit employees’ well-being.
Jun 20, 2022 · This Harvard Business Review series on managing in an anxious world explores how leaders can effectively face their anxiety and that of their teams in four stages: identifying how your anxiety manifests, taking steps to actively manage it, leading others in times of high anxiety, and building a support system of processes and people to manage it...
