Managing Stress in Organizational Life

Abstract

This paper reports on stress management workshops that have been conducted for executives and administrators of several organizations and educational institutions. The workshops are experiential in nature and vary depending upon the assessed needs of individual participants and their organization. The workshops are designed so that each participant will be given an opportunity to look at themselves and how they manage their own stress. One person’s positive stress may be another persons distress. The main focus of the workshop is to look at the management of stress and not the elimination of stress. Participants become more aware of their own stress management by completing self-assessment tools throughout the work- shop. This workshop is an organizational development intervention which, hopefully will have an impact upon the quality of life in the organization.