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External factors of stress Tutorial

Are external factors making your work life stressful? Discover the hidden stressors impacting your well-being in our engaging video on 'External Factors of Stress.' From unclear roles to workplace relationships and socioeconomic pressures, we break down the challenges you face. Join us to explore solutions that foster positive energy and well-being—watch now to reclaim your peace!

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Do you know precisely what is creating stress for you?

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What gives you fatigue?

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What is slowly draining your energy day after day?

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Here is a description of the main activators in a professional setting,

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the way work is organised,

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work relationships,

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the physical and technical environment,

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and the social economic environment.

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I invite you to pick up a pen and write down the words that will resonate with you

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as I list these main recognised stress triggers.

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When you have identified them precisely,

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you will be able to find solutions more easily.

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Here are the main triggers more related to the organisation of work,

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tasks or roles of team members unclear or poorly defined.

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We do not know

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who is doing what or we are stepping on each other's feet.

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Poor planning of tasks which creates a race against time,

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contradiction and incompatibility of requirements.

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Example,

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you are asked for more quality in customer follow-up and at

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the same time you are given more files to process.

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Inadequate working hours,

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especially with regard to transport,

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you will find yourself in a crowded train or in the middle of traffic jams,

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too slow or too fast progress in the hierarchical scale.

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Instability of employment contracts.

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Here are the main triggers more related to working relationships.

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People are a real stressor for each other.

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Lack of support from colleagues or superiors,

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inappropriate management because the manager is not competent or

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because they are too present or too absent.

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Incivility,

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verbal and physical aggression internally or by customers.

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Lack of participation in decisions,

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you are not asked for your opinion.

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Lack of recognition and the tendency in companies to say

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what is wrong rather than what is going well.

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Value conflicts between the company and the employee.

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The company tramples on your values,

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and that creates stress.

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The client is king syndrome.

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Employees are asked to bend over backwards for the client king.

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Harassment at work.

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Here are the main triggers more related to

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the physical and technical environment of the workplace,

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a tiring physical and material space,

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material and noise pollution,

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the hyper communication that generates what we call techno stress,

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laptops,

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internet,

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emails,

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some of which we do not dare to disconnect even at weekends.

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An open space without privacy,

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a distance from the workplace,

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sometimes following a move of premises which generates a long transport time.

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In the main cities we have around 1.5 hours of

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daily journey compared to 1 hour in the provinces.

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Teleworking can also bring stress because it generates

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less partitioning between private and professional life.

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Here are the main triggers more related

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to the socioeconomic environment of the company,

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the poor economic health of the company,

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which leads to

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ever greater pressure.

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We must all make an effort to save the company.

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The cult of performance and the overbidding of competitiveness

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which requires always to surpass oneself to do more.

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Job insecurity linked to uncertainties about the future

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of the business restructuring social plan closure.

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Am I going to be part of the next wave of layoffs?

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Other triggers related to the socioeconomic environment of the company.

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The repeated transformations of organisations which induce

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the need to constantly adapt to change.

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We go through never ending transformations and reorganisations,

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a lack of clarity on the direction to follow.

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We don't know where we're going.

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We change course all the time.

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The work overload brought on by every stage of change.

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What are the main stress triggers for you in this list?

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Note them well.

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In the next videos of the stress management course,

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you will find ways to minimise or even eradicate

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the stress that these points generate in you.

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You will cease to suffer it.

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