To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience

Managing increased stress for the long term entails nurturing resilience skills before seeking outside solutions, and these skills include adaptability, a healthy relationship to control, ongoing learning, a sense of purpose, and knowing how to leverage support and appropriate resources, reports the Harvard Business Review . One immediate action is to reframe perception of stress as something that can strengthen job coping skills in the future, while also not overlooking signs of burnout. A healthy relationship to control can be cultivated by separating out what is and is not controllable, and recognizing your ability to choose how to interpret or frame the latter. Employees also should take pains to reflect on their personal context as well as the larger business and global context to better identify the root causes and possible ways to mitigate and avoid future stress. Awareness of habits and instinctual responses and seeking additional support to build skills to more comfortably navigate conflict would be of benefit. Finally, connecting learning with action can be done by first analyzing what could be learned from stress, and then making conscious choices to help build up coping skills.