Stress
How can you maintain your balance when demands, responsibilities, or changes become more significant?
Stress influences how individuals and teams respond to the challenges they face on a daily basis.
Stress is often a normal response to a situation requiring adaptation. When it stimulates action and mobilizes available resources, it can support engagement and performance. However, when demands consistently exceed the system's capacity to handle them, individual and collective equilibrium can gradually be affected.
Within the teams
Stress influences the quality of decisions, relationships, and the ability of teams to cope with daily challenges.
When it becomes too intense or prolonged, it can affect cooperation, commitment, and collective functioning.
Better regulation helps to preserve the resources needed for adaptation and sustainable performance.
It is often overlooked that...
Stress is not solely related to the amount of work or external constraints.
It also depends on how individuals and teams perceive, process, and respond to the situations they encounter.
When regulatory capacity is supported, resources become more available to meet daily challenges.
What we can observe
Make an appointment• A feeling of being overloaded or under persistent pressure.
• A difficulty in taking a step back from the situations encountered.
• A fatigue that sets in despite the efforts made.
• An increase in tension or emotional reactions.
• A decrease in the quality of decisions or concentration.
• Difficulty prioritizing or managing multiple requests.
• A feeling of constantly having to deal with emergencies.
• A significant mobilization of resources to maintain daily operations.
Stress is not necessarily the problem. It can become a signal indicating that available resources are no longer sufficient to sustainably meet the demands encountered.
Developing one's regulatory capacity
Regulation allows us to adjust our responses to the situations we encounter and to preserve the resources necessary for individual and collective functioning. Developing this capacity helps us face daily challenges with greater stability, discernment, and efficiency.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.