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How To Stay Calm Under Pressure at Work (According to Professionals)
By [email protected] (Lindsay Kolowich Cox)
The business world can feel like a place of constant pressure and complexity. We hate stress a lot (because it sucks) but, at work, it can sometimes feel like addressing and dealing with stress can get in the way of meeting deadlines and producing results.
Stress should always be addressed, though, because not dealing with it can lead to burnout — a legitimate health condition.
In this post, learn why remaining calm under pressure at work is important and strategies to stay level-headed.
Why is it important to stay calm under pressure at work?
Justin Menkes, the author of Better Under Pressure, says that pressure itself isn’t bad, but pressure that becomes panic is. “There’s a lot of research that shows that a moderate amount of pressure is critical for human satisfaction and gratification, otherwise we get very restless. We like challenge; we have to have challenge. It’s just that, if you overload and flood us, panic is what many people are talking about when they say ‘unhealthy pressure.’”
The key is handling pressure without panic, and here are tips and expert advice for doing so.
How to Stay Calm Under Pressure At Work
1. Organize your priorities.
Staying organized at work is a great way to stay calm under pressure. Creating to-do lists to uncover the most pressing tasks and devising an organized way to tackle your responsibilities so you don’t get overwhelmed.
For example, in the face of an upcoming deadline, you can list tasks and their dependencies, organize them by importance, and create a structure to follow to help you meet your deadline.
Alison Elworthy, EVP of Revenue Operations at HubSpot, says, “For me, it’s all about staying organized and being methodical to get through stressful situations. I approach it like any other large project I might be tackling at work and will even create a project plan to get through it, as nerdy as that sounds.”
2. Think about the satisfaction of future results.
Thinking about the benefits of the future can help you build a more positive attitude about your now if you remember that good things are to come.
For example, maybe you’re racing to finalize a marketing campaign for a new product, but you’re caught up in your remaining tasks. Launching the campaign and seeing ROI can be incredibly satisfying and a valuable motivator, so taking time to think about the outcome of your tasks can be helpful.
3. Break down larger tasks.
Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot Founder and CTO, says, “Usually, I feel the most pressure when there is a seemingly overwhelming large problem at hand. My tactic to deal with this is to ‘deconstruct’ the large problem at hand into smaller, bite-sized chunks. Each of the individual, smaller things seem surmountable on their own, and it calms me to know that if I conquered all of those small things, I’ve essentially conquered the big thing.”
Breaking down large tasks might help you realize that your responsibilities are …read more
Source:: HubSpot Blog
