Learn all you need to know about coping with stress in the workplace, from identifying the causes and symptoms of stress to monitoring your response to pressure and implementing coping strategies. Reducing Stress shows how to reorganize your work practices and think positively. It also provides practical techniques to use when dealing with potential problem areas. Power tips help you to handle real-life situations and develop first-class stress-management skills that will dramatically improve your ability to deal with pressure. Learn to minimize your stress level—both at the office and at home—to maximize your productivity and happiness. DK Essential Manager series have sold more than 1.9 million books worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.

A practical, e-book guide to reducing stress which will give you the information and skills to succeed Find out how to cope with stress in the workplace; from identifying symptoms to introducing coping strategies. You'll learn to reorganise your work practices, think positively and pick up practical techniques to use when dealing with potential problem areas. Tips, dos and don'ts and 'SOS' hints on what to do in a particular situation, plus real-life case studies demonstrate key skills. Dip in and out of topics for quick reference. Handy tips in an e-book format - take it wherever your work takes you.

Covering sources of stress in every area of life: work, exams, relationships, social pressure, money, and more, this practical guide combines infographics and self-analysis questionnaires to make information easy to access and apply. This dynamic infographic program, founded on cutting-edge psychological research, enables you to deconstruct and deal with stress head-on. Stress: The Psychology of Managing Pressure helps you identify external and internal sources of stress in your life and reframe unhelpful patterns of thought into powerful psychological solutions that you can apply every day. Underpinned by psychological theory, with relevant findings from psychologists, doctors, and teachers, this book will help you smash the shadow of stress in any area of your life and emerge happier, healthier, and more productive.

Learn all you need to know about delegation, from deciding which tasks to delegate and selecting an appropriate candidate, to ensuring the brief is clear and the task is completed. How to Delegate shows you how to free your time and motivate your staff, plus it provides practical techniques to try when delegating. Power tips help you handle real-life situations and develop first-class delegation skills that will dramatically improve results and relationships. This is one of many helpful and engaging titles from DK's Essential Managers series. Power tips help you handle real-life situations and develop the first-class management skills that are the key to a productive and informed workplace. Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.

Are you among the 95 million Americans who suffer from stress during these trying times? Revised and comprehensive, this invaluable guide helps you identify the specific areas of stress in your life–familial, work-related, social, emotional–and offers proven techniques for dealing with every one of them. New material includes information on how men and women differ in response to stress, updated statistics on disorders and drugs, the ways terrorism and the information age impact stress, the key benefits of spirituality, alternative medicine, exercise, and nutrition. Stress Management will help you • test your personal responses to daily stress– and chart your progress in controlling it • learn specific techniques for relaxation– from “scanning” to “imagery training” • discover how to deal with life’s critical moments without stress • embark on a program to improve your physical health as a major step toward stress management • discern which types of stress must be reduced and which kinds you can turn into positive motivation

Positive thinking can help you realize your goals, but for most people, it’s a skill that has be learned and practiced regularly. This book uses expert tips, clear text, and hard-working illustrations to show you how to assess your thinking patterns and change your negative perceptions in order to live a confident, fulfilled life. From helping you identify areas that have negativity in your life, to guiding you through rethinking negative beliefs, to learning new mental and emotional strategies, this book will help you transform your approach to living. Self-assessment exercises enable you to evaluate your positivity. The guide then helps you apply these fundamental lessons to your life — in the workplace, in your love life, for health, at play, and in friendship. A solid foundation of positivity will help you get the best from life. The DK Essential Managers series covers a range of business and management topics and has sold more than two million copies worldwide. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and graphics.

Learn how to be positive and determined in setting and achieving your life goals. Achieving Excellence demonstrates how to improve your physical fitness and mental agility and shows how to increase personal productivity and become more effective allowing you to fulfil your ambitions and achieve success. This innovative series covers a wide range of management and personal development topics. Each title is a comprehensive yet compact source of easy reference for all those in or aspiring to a position of responsibility with a focus on developing and enhancing professional management practice.