Archive for the ‘Coping’ Category
How do Working Mothers Cope
How do working mothers cope with being away from their little ones:
Hi everyone! I am a single working mother and over the christmas holidays I have realised just how much I hate being away from my daughter whilst I work.
I have a 6 year old son who is at school and only has to go to after school care two days a week, and a 1 year old daughter who spends three days a week at nursery and two days a week with grandparents. I work as much within school hours as I can and tutor while they are with their dads so that we have enough money for one holiday a year and my son’s extra curricular activities.
I love my job (I am studying for a PhD and my boss is great and lets me have the school holidays off with my kids), but it is really hard work and I feel like I am missing out on my daughter growing up. Over the christmas holidays it has been lovely because she has started to talk and is nearly walking and I get to be home for that but it just makes me realise how much I want to be at home with her. I know it’s just not possible and I have to work so that we can live in a nice area in a nice house but it really guts me that someone else will get to see some of her milestones before I will.
How do other working mothers cope with this? (more…)
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Working Women Coping With her Career
Differences in coping with Job: Coping strategy use differs significantly by gander and lite cycle singe Women utilize the coping strategies to Cognitive Restructuring.
Delegating, Limiting Avocational Activities, and Using Social Support significantly more often than do men. Dual-career men and women without children at home use Compartmentalizing significantly less frequently than men and women with children Respondents whose oldest child is under age 6 reported less use of Delegating than those with an oldest child stags ’3-18. Limiting Avocational Activities is used less often by participants with children under age 6 than by those with older children. The results are discussed from a family lite cycle perspective.
Instead, I drove home every night in tears. Amanda stole my ideas, sabotaged my relationships with writers, and “forgot” to tell me about meetings. It was like high school all over again. How could this be happening in a respected company run by professionals?
Manisha Amol, VP, marketing, Modicare (more…)
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How to Accept Criticism While at Work.
How to Accept Criticism While at Work.
So, you just finished what you thought was a great project at work, and now your boss is listing all the things you need to improve upon.
Don’t get discouraged; constructive criticism is a key part of any job. Through this article, learn how to accept criticism and do your job as well as possible.
Listening to and accepting feedback from employees and staff managers can be a daunting and humbling prospect for business owners and managers, but is a necessary task to improve your own work and your business’ operations.
While much has been written about how to offer constructive criticism to a colleague or employee, how should you receive it from a staff member?
Tony Schwartz, CEO of The Energy Project, an American company that focuses on employee engagement and energising workforces, (more…)
Coping with the Stress Making Colleagues
Coping with office colleagues:
You say white, they say black, and they take every opportunity to put you in your place through subtle means or otherwise.
Taking care properly of yourself doesn’t hurt and helps to reduce stress in a lifestyle overhaul. Even small things can lift your mood, increase your energy, and make you feel like you’re back in the driver’s seat.
Take things one step at a time, and as you make more positive lifestyle choices, you’ll soon notice a noticeable difference in your stress level, both at home at work.
Aerobic exercise -perspiring -is an effective anti-anxiety treatment lifting mood, increasing energy, sharpening focus and relaxing mind and body.
For maximum stress relief, try to get at least 30 minutes of heart pounding activity on most days but activity can be broken up into two or three short segments.
Although it’s not a good solution to keep for yourself your feelings at work, (more…)
Coping with Younger Male Boss
Coping with Boss:
According to human resource and career consultants, older workers are reporting to younger bosses more and more these days.
A recent survey by the jobs website CareerBuilder found that 43% of workers 35 and older said they currently work for a younger boss. CareerBuilder used Harris Interactive to administer the online survey of 5,000 workers.
Maybe you have been out of the workforce for a while (especially if you’ve been at home with the kids for a time) and have returned to a younger crowd in the office. Or perhaps a youthful star performer has risen through the ranks quickly and is being promoted faster than you can bat an eyelid.
Whatever the reason, if you are faced with taking orders from a boss who is younger than you, it might not always be easy. It is important to gain some youthful perspective in this case and learn how to cope with grace and enthusiasm.
It very quickly became plain that male boss didn’t see older women as having value, says Barrett. (more…)
Better Coping Skills at Work
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Stress is a very necessary part of life, it can be both good and bad for us and it’s important to have some way of dealing with stress and making time to relax where possible. Stress is the innate part of the human survival system and it can affect everybody but the effects of stress are not always bad, for example stress can stimulate us to remain motivated until we have finished a certain project or a piece of work and we may get a sense of pleasure or satisfaction upon completion. We call this type of stress – eustress, it can be this type of stress that we need to simply get up and out of bed in the morning.
This response is very efficient and the very mechanisms whose function is to protect the individual can lead to varying degrees of physical, mental and emotional discomfort – the symptoms of stress. One important factor in the response to stress is the individual’s perception of the stressor. The knowledge of what triggers your stress response, where and how it manifests itself and knowing that you can change these symptoms through effective Coping Strategies or Stress Relief Techniques can go a long way to managing and relieving stress in a constructive way.
Stress Relief therapies and techniques can come in many different forms and people will find some methods work better than others for them. (more…)
Coping With the New Jobs, Specially for Women
Adjust to a different commute. Learn the ropes. Befriend coworkers.
No doubt you weighed these and oilier dynamics of changing jobs or ruing CO work after a period of unemployment. But now that you’ve accepted the offer, it’s time to consider the other ways the new job may affect your personal life.
Follow a New Work Schedule.
Take some time before Day One to review non-work commitments and make a list to decide which, if any, may need CO be scaled back or changed. What obligations can be shifted to others? For example, could home deliver)’ for groceries or carpooling kids with a friend or
Adjust to a different commute. Learn the ropes. Befriend coworkers. Handle a new boss.
No doubt you weighed these and other dynamics of changing jobs or returning to work after a period of unemployment. (more…)