This isn’t a managing program, it’s psychology. It’s about YOU. Your thoughts, blocks, obstacles, stressors, and how they affect you and the people you care for. Within every craft there is always a mental side of performance, and leadership is not different.
There are many ways stress can be viewed in our normal day-to-day struggle, but I’ll do my best to try not to treat it like a superficial topic, and while I wrote this with the intention of it being clear and practical, this is not a how-to guide or a tutorial on deep breathing. There is no quick fix or hacks given, no simple shortcuts to take, the reason is two-fold. First, cheap and quick fixes hardly solve any deep trouble, they often just create more instead. This is not the place where you’ll find someone to tell you what to do, it’s a place for you to seek deeper understanding, sometimes seeing something you might not like to see. My purpose here isn’t to eliminate all stress in our lives, whether that’s even possible, but cutting the unnecessary one and learning to thrive under pressure for the stuff that matters to us. To shape and shift our relationship with fear and stress so we can grow and develop with them. This is what stress and leadership are to me, stress is about self-discovery, leading is about putting that self-discovery into practice and giving back to others.
We will start by analyzing the classic research on the stress response, moving on to define generally what stresses us. We will take a look at our character and how our perception and attitude play a role in defining our stress reaction and how our mind can get us to perform suboptimally under intense pressure. We will see how recovery plays a role in our reaction to stress, both physically and mentally. Finally, we’ll analyze our leadership style and how that can affect the people around us, and how to manage their stress levels.
A workbook is provided as a pdf for you to follow along with the course, take your time to work through those exercises.
2. THE ANATOMY OF STRESS
3. WHAT STRESSES US
4. THE ROLE OF ATTITUDE
5. HIGH-STRESS ENVIRONMENTS
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13The Space Between Stimulus and Response
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14PRACTICE: OBSERVE YOUR THOUGHTS
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15The Ego and Identification
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16Observer Meditation
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17PRACTICE: THE OBSERVER
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18The Main Personality Characters 1/5
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19The Main Personality Characters 2/5
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20The Main Personality Characters 3/5
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21The Main Personality Characters 4/5
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22The Main Personality Characters 5/5
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23States VS Traits
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24PRACTICE: RECOGNIZE YOUR TYPE
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25Emotional Intelligence
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26PRACTICE: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
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27The Science of Optimism
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28PRACTICE: OPTIMISM
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29Acceptance of Emotion Meditation
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30Control
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31PRACTICE: CONTROL
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32Building Your Inner Citadel
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33PRACTICE: FINDING YOUR CENTER
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34Dealing with Impostor Syndrome
6. THE ROLE OF RECOVERY
7. LEADING OTHERS
8. THE PATH AHEAD
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57Emotional Contagion
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58Your Leadership Philosophy
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59PRACTICE: YOUR LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY
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60Leadership Styles 1/4
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61Leadership Styles 2/4
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62Leadership Styles 3/4
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63Leadership Styles 4/4
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64PRACTICE: LEADERSHIP STYLES
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65Motivation and Frustration Tolerance
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66Types of Motivation
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67Giving Praise
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68Building Culture and Trust