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How to be a good manager even under stressful situations.

Depending on what type of company you work for will depend on what type of stress you have. Not matter what type of industry you are in you will have stress that you have to deal with. If you are a manager you will have even more stress then if you are a normal employee. Even if you are under a lot of stress as a manager you will want to make sure that you do not let it show too much. Here are some tips on how to be a good manager even under stressful situations.

Managing Your Time

Perhaps the greatest single problem that people have today is “time poverty.” Working people have too much to do and too little time for their personal lives. Most people feel overwhelmed with responsibilities and activities, and the harder they work, the further behind they feel. This sense of being on a never-ending treadmill can cause you to fall into the reactive/responsive mode of living. Instead of clearly deciding what you want to do, you continually react to what is happening around you. Pretty soon you lose all sense of control. You feel that your life is running you, rather than you running your life.

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