 |  | SALES MEETING TOOL KIT: REDUCING STRESS | |
|  Stress Reduction: Introduction Component 1: Facilitator Talking Points Component 2: Agenda Component 3: Activity 1: How Stressed Are You? Quiz Component 4: Activity 1: How Stressed Are You? Quiz Answers Component 5: Handout 1: A Dozen Ways to Reduce Stress Component 6: Activity 2: Exercises to Relieve Stress Component 7: Handout 2: Reduce Your Time Related Stress Component 8: Activity 3: Identifying Your Stress Producers Component 9: Activity 4: Behaviors to Lower Stress Component 10: Activity 4: Behaviors to Lower Stress, Explanation Sheet | Component 7 Handout 2: Reduce Your Time-Related Stress Using time productively is a great stress reducer. Try these time management ideas. 1. Have a plan of action for each day, week, and month. Knowing what you want to achieve will help you focus your time and reduce the stress of feeling that you’re not accomplishing your goals. 2. Avoid indecision. If you try to put off making a decision after carefully weighing the facts, you waste time that could be spent implementing the choice and create needless tension for yourself. 3. Know your limits. Not knowing when to say “no” will push you beyond your capacities and lead to poor performance and mental fatigue. 4. Don’t procrastinate. Try to determine which tasks you regularly put off and do them first. Then give yourself a reward for completing the job. Overcoming procrastination reduces the nagging tension of having an incomplete job hanging over your head. 5. Avoid interruptions. Losing concentration, especially when performing complex tasks, means you need to start your thought process over, losing still more time and adding to your stress. Try to block out a period of at least one to two hours of uninterrupted time when you are working on a listing presentation or a new marketing program that requires creative thought. Very few things really are so urgent that they can’t wait for an hour or two. Component 8: Activity 3: Identifying Your Stress Producers > |