Workplace pressure: how to cope
Experts say step one is to manage your sense of fear. Here’s how.
Episode 38 of the Working It podcast, hosted by Financial Times, titled "Workplace pressure: how to cope" was published on November 21, 2023 and runs 15 minutes.
November 21, 2023 ·15m · Working It
Summary
We’ve all been there: the presentation we’re dreading, the deadline we’ve been avoiding, the boss breathing down our neck. So how best to cope with the resulting stress and pressure? Host Isabel Berwick sources top tips from Chris Hunt, a bomb disposal operator, and Mark Wilson, professor of performance psychology at the University of Exeter. Both also explain how pressure affects you physiologically.Want to get in touch? Write to [email protected] Do you have a workplace dilemma you’d like Isabel and Jonathan Black, director of the careers service at Oxford university, to help you with? Submit it using this link. Free FT links:Workplace anxiety - and how to overcome itFT subscriber? Sign up to get Isabel’s free Working It newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday, here Presented by Isabel Berwick, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval, mixed by Simon Panayi. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s head of audio.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode Description
We’ve all been there: the presentation we’re dreading, the deadline we’ve been avoiding, the boss breathing down our neck. So how best to cope with the resulting stress and pressure? Host Isabel Berwick sources top tips from Chris Hunt, a bomb disposal operator, and Mark Wilson, professor of performance psychology at the University of Exeter. Both also explain how pressure affects you physiologically.
Want to get in touch? Write to [email protected]
Do you have a workplace dilemma you’d like Isabel and Jonathan Black, director of the careers service at Oxford university, to help you with? Submit it using this link.
Free FT links:
Workplace anxiety - and how to overcome it
FT subscriber? Sign up to get Isabel’s free Working It newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday, here
Presented by Isabel Berwick, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval, mixed by Simon Panayi. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s head of audio.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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