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A very demanding profession which there is no room for trade-off. It is the art of management when your boss always has high expectation on you to make every assignment possible - meet Executive Assistants.
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2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
I would like to invite you to be
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
EAs and PAs Conference 2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
• Stress – Hate it or Love it!
• Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?
• Overcoming Fear of Failure
• Perfectionism
• Centering
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
EAs and PAs Conference 2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
• Stress – Hate it or Love it!
• Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?
• Overcoming Fear of Failure
• Perfectionism
• Centering
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
Stress – Hate it or Love it!
Source: www.mindtools.com
“Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a
person perceives that "demands exceed the personal and
social resources the individual is able to mobilize." In
short, it's what we feel when we think we've lost control
of events.”
Richard S Lazarus
one of the most influential psychologists
“Stress is not necessarily something bad – it all
depends on how you take it. The stress of
exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial,
while that of failure, humiliation or infection is
detrimental."
Hans Selye
One of the founding fathers of stress research
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
The Stress Scale
Source: www.mindtools.com
In 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe
decided to study whether or not stress contributes to illness.
They surveyed more than 5,000 medical patients and asked them
to say whether they had experience any of a series of 43 life
events in the previous two years.
Each event, called a Life Change Unit
(LCU), had a different "weight" for stress.
The more events the patient added up, the
higher the score.
The higher the score, and the larger the
weight of each event, the more likely the
patient was to become ill.
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
The Stress Scale
Source: www.mindtools.com
This table is taken from "The Social Re-adjustment Rating Scale",
Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe, Journal of Psychosomatic
Research, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 1967, Pages 213-218,
Copyright © 1967 Published by Elsevier Science Inc.
Score Comment
300+You have a high or very high risk of becoming ill in the
near future.
150-299You have a moderate to high chance of becoming ill in
the near future.
<150You have only a low to moderate chance of becoming ill
in the near future.
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
EAs and PAs Conference 2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
• Stress – Hate it or Love it!
• Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?
• Overcoming Fear of Failure
• Perfectionism
• Centering
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
Are you Positive or Negative Thinker?
Source: www.mindtools.com
"Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.“
Zig Ziglar - Personal development guru
"A man is but the product of his thoughts.
What he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
“attracts positive people, events, and
outcomes”
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
EAs and PAs Conference 2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
• Stress – Hate it or Love it!
• Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?
• Overcoming Fear of Failure
• Perfectionism
• Centering
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
Overcoming Fear of Failure
Source: www.mindtools.com
However, it's important to realize that in everything we do,
there's always a chance that we'll fail.
considering all of the potential
outcomes of your decision
think more positively
having a "Plan B" in place
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
EAs and PAs Conference 2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
• Stress – Hate it or Love it!
• Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?
• Overcoming Fear of Failure
• Perfectionism
• Centering
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
Perfectionism
Source: www.mindtools.com
Excessive perfectionism can do more harm than good - it can be
damaging to your self-esteem and to that of the people you work
with. It can put a strain on your relationships, and, in some
cases, it can lead to health issues.
She loves perfections..
Within a decade, Martha Stewart, Inc., had grown
into a $1 million business serving a number of
corporate and celebrity clients. Stewart expanded
into the world of publishing with her first
book, Entertaining, which became a bestseller and
was followed in quick succession by such
publications as Martha Stewart's Quick Cook
Menus, Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres, Martha
Stewart's Christmas, and Martha Stewart's Wedding
Planner. Her newfound fame took its toll on her
personal life, as her marriage to Andy Stewart ended
in divorce in 1990, after a bitter three-year
separation.
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Maladaptive perfectionists are
never satisfied with what they
achieve.
If something isn't perfect, they
dismiss it.
They may experience fear of
failure, doubt, unhappiness,
and other painful emotions.
Adaptive perfectionists work on
developing their skills.
Their standards are always
rising, and they approach work
with optimism, pleasure, and a
desire to improve.
This is clearly a healthy type of
perfectionism
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
Perfectionism
Source: www.mindtools.com
You can use these strategies to deal with perfectionism:
Set Realistic Goals
Listen to Your Emotions
Don't Fear Mistakes
“To overcome your perfectionist behaviors, start by listing everything you do
(or don't do) because of your desire for perfection.”
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
EAs and PAs Conference 2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
• Stress – Hate it or Love it!
• Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?
• Overcoming Fear of Failure
• Perfectionism
• Centering
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Stress Management in the Workplace
Centering
Source: www.mindtools.com
Centering is a technique that
originated, and is still used, in Aikido –
one of the Japanese martial arts.
Aikido is nonviolent, and is perhaps
the most cerebral of all the self-
defense arts. It literally means 'the
way of unifying life energy.'
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
It depends on…
YOU.
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
What are you
waiting for?
2012
Executive
Secretaries &
Personal
Assistants
Conference
Nonkwan
Hongthong
19.07.2012
Just a thought…….
