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Stress: The Silent Stakeholder

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Stress is a silent killer and sometimes called a killer without a face (DrLam Cooaching, 2018).

If stress can have a very negative effect on the body, it surely can have a negative effect on the project. If PM's allows this team member to take control, your project could be impacted.

There are two types of stress, the positive and the negative one. You want to control both, if either come out of PM hands, it can silently crash your project.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
George -

I'd consider stress similar to the way we think of risks. While there are positive and negative risks, in general we tend to focus on the negative ones.

Mindfulness practices and exercise are a couple of ways to deal with personal negative stress and EQ helps a PM identify when a situation is creating undue negative stress for one or more of their team members and will take steps to defuse the stress.

Kiron
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Jul 07, 2018 9:05 PM
George Lewis
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Kiron, I agree
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Jul 07, 2018 4:12 PM
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George -

I'd consider stress similar to the way we think of risks. While there are positive and negative risks, in general we tend to focus on the negative ones.

Mindfulness practices and exercise are a couple of ways to deal with personal negative stress and EQ helps a PM identify when a situation is creating undue negative stress for one or more of their team members and will take steps to defuse the stress.

Kiron
Kiron, I agree
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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Jul 07, 2018 2:59 PM
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Tamer - Morten Emil Berg & Jan Terje Karlsen wrote of Managing Stress in Projects Using Coaching Leadership Tools.
Well Thanks!!! So, the leadership is the best method for managing stress!!!
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