Do you allow pressure in your workplace to pressure you?

How are you handling pressure in your workplace? Do you allow it to pressure you or you simply let pressure be by itself?

Many managers and leaders allow pressure in the workplace to pressure them. Thus, it creates so many complications in their lives and health. When we allow pressure in the workplace to pressure us, we become stressed. We cannot function properly, why? Because we have allowed the pressure of work to pressure us and it results to stress at work.

Not only that it results to being stressed at work it also complicate our wellbeing. Our blood pressure shoots up, we become anxious. We unintentionally create conflicts with our subordinates and peers and so forth.

Some of us bring this pressure at work to our homes and what is the negative effect of this to our family’s wellbeing? Friction is easily ignited in the family. Sometimes there is shouting match between spouses and sometimes between parents and children. And who is the culprit? Our mishandling of pressure at work for we allowed it to stress us.

So, what is the cure? The cure is not to allow workplace pressure to pressure us. Let us let pressure exist by itself until it passes us. How are we going to go about it? We have to put things at work in its proper order and then simply work hard and leave pressure by itself alone.  

We can do this by concentrating in our work, pressure at work happens for the simple reason that we are not concentrating at work. By not concentrating we allow work to pressure us. For example, when we are given so many tasks by our boss, we become rattled and we already don’t know which work to do first.

So, what are we going to do? We simply have to concentrate on the work given to us according to its importance. Let us not allow it to pressure us otherwise it would create havoc in our wellbeing. We have to remember that we are humans and not machines. Even machines/computers break down when subjected to so much pressure.   

At the end of the day we have to remember that if not handled wisely and properly workplace pressure or stress can kill us anytime. We therefore have to manage pressure in the workplace by not allowing it to pressure us. We simply have to give it our all when we work minus the pressure and that is already enough.  -  Marino J. Dasmarinas 

On winning respect in an argument

Have you been involved in an argument in your workplace? Arguments occurs in the workplace every now and then. It happens during meetings, lunchbreaks and discussions. By virtue of their senior status in the workplace these arguments are normally won by the person who occupies the higher position. 

But the fact is not everyone who wins an argument earns the respect of the person whom they’ve argued with. So, how does one win an argument and respect at the same time? There are four (4) ways that I want to suggest:

1. Don’t bully your way to win an argument. By virtue of their higher status in the organization many managers/leaders would try to bully their way to win an argument. They are usually successful using this bullying tactic. However, when it comes to earning respect of their subordinate whom they’ve argued with, they actually fail. Therefore, don’t use any form of bullying tactic during arguments.

2. Be mindful when the person whom you are arguing with is talking. Listen and be present, in other words; don’t be physically present but mentally wandering elsewhere.

3. Acknowledge the thoughts and ideas of the person whom you are arguing with even if its wrong. And then in a gentle manner put forward your own thoughts and ideas.   

4. Close the argument on a positive note by saying, “Thank you for your time and ideas or any words to that effect.” – Marino J. Dasmarinas