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Stress & coping

18 Sep

It is not the workload. Stop calling it the workload.

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure
Infographic poster with a dark blue background, large white headline reading “My team says it’s the workload,” and a diagram highlighting pressure factors (Ambiguity, Conflict, Overload) in orange.
Ask a leader why the team is stressed and you will hear one word: workload. But research on 788,000 employees shows that unclear expectations and colliding demands often do more damage than volume. Five misreadings of workplace stress, the data behind them, and five better questions to ask your team.
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28 Aug

High performance can hide overload

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure
Poster-style image: 'HIGH PERFORMANCE CAN HIDE OVERLOAD.' with supporting text about performance vs capacity, bottom left logo and salomons.coach.
High performers can continue delivering while their capacity quietly declines. Learn how leaders can recognise the early signals, ask better questions and act before overload affects performance, the team and business continuity.
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26 Jul

Stress is Personal, Coping is Collective

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure
Promotional banner: ‘Stress is Personal. Coping is Collective.’ with a team meeting and presenter, emphasizing wellbeing at work.
Stress is often treated as an individual problem. But in real organizations, teams can either amplify pressure or become a powerful source of resilience. This article explores five common team stressors, the difference between personal and team coping, and how a Team Stress Profile can help teams prevent stress from becoming a private burden.
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07 Jun

Your Personal Stress Coping Profile: Turning Pressure Into Insight

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure
Infographic header 'Your stress profile' with a radar chart showing stress factors and scores (Mindset 88, Active coping 75, Reframing 62, etc.). Value labels visible on each axis.
The Personal Stress Coping Profile™ provides a structured mirror of current pressure, coping responses, resilience resources, boundaries and recovery. It creates insight without diagnosing or labelling—and connects personal awareness with the wider team conditions that influence how people cope.
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29 Apr

The Five-Minute Reset: What One Stanford Study Changed About How I Coach

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure
Infographic-style hero showing a breathing cycle graph with two curved lines and markers, labeled ‘INHALE’ and ‘EXHALE,’ on a pale background; includes the page title nearby: ‘The 5-Minute Reset’ with a subtitle about cyclic sighing and breath patterns.
A 2023 randomized trial pitted four breathing techniques against each other. The winner takes five minutes a day. Here's what it taught me and how I built it into my coaching practice.
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07 Feb

Hold the Line: The Hardest Stress Coping Skill and How To Practise it

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure
Hero infographic titled 'Hold the Line' about stress management, showing a gold boundary line with anchors and routes on a dark blue background.
Most of the people I work with are good at handling things. That's exactly why their stress doesn't show up until it's expensive. Here's how I run a workshop that makes the hardest skill, saying no, something a team can actually get better at.
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02 May

Are you getting burned-out? Read this!

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure, Video
In today’s fast-paced world, work easily takes center stage in our identity. Inspired by Simone Stolzoff’s “How to Reclaim Your Life from Work,” this reflection exercise helps you rebalance what truly matters. The Circle of You invites you to visualize how your time and energy are divided — and what your ideal balance would look like. By comparing the two, you’ll see where small, meaningful shifts can begin. Your job should support your life, not define it. This exercise helps leaders and professionals take the first practical step toward balance, well-being, and authentic leadership.
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01 Nov

Cooping with VUCA at Work – Web-event Recording

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Leading through uncertainty and crisis, Video
It’s become a trendy managerial acronym: VUCA, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, and a catchall for “Hey, it’s crazy out there!” (HBR). It’s also misleading: VUCA conflates four distinct types of challenges that demand four distinct types of responses. That makes it difficult to know how to approach a challenging situation and easy to use VUCA as a crutch, a way to throw off the hard work of strategy and planning—after all, you can’t prepare for a VUCA world, right? WRONG! in this session I deep-dive on the characteristics of VUCA to provide you more handles on dealing with them. An introduction to create more awareness. A 1 hour web-event to quickly increase your understanding of VUCA and how this impacts the workplace and team dynamics, including possible coping strategies for leaders.
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02 Aug

Making stress your friend!

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure
The way you believe stress has an impact on your health, is going to be exactly the impact. Create a mind shift by watching Kelly's TED talk from >10 years ago.
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05 Jul

How to make stress your friend!

  • By salomons.coach
  • In Blog, Sustaining performance under pressure, Video
Change the way you think about stress and take on the next big challenge fearless.
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