Practicing Safe Stress for Programmers

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Practicing Safe Stress for Programmers

• Mark Gorkin
• The Stress Doc

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Four Stages of Burnout

• Physical, Mental and Emotional Exhaustion
• Shame and Doubt
• Cynicism and Callousness
• Failure, Helplessness and Crisis

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Seven Stages of Grief

• It Cant Happen Here!
• Oh God, What Do I Do Now?
• How Dare They! or How Could They?
• Damned If You Do or If You Dont!
• Turning a Lemon Into Lemonade
• Now Youre Ready to Just Do It!
• Glass Is Half Empty and Half Full

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Managing Reorganizational StressMacro Micro
Perspectives

• Uncertainty Anxiety at All Levels
• Proactively Diversify Career Path
• New/Training Learning Curves
• Organizational IRAs
• USE EAP Employees Supervisors
• Stop Staying Till Eight or Nine
• Six F Model of Challenging Loss/Change

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Managing Reorganizational StressTeam Perspective

• Meaningful Staff Team Meetings
• Supervisor Wears Two Hats
• Wavelength Segment Task Process
• Morning Huddles Informal Lunches
• Cookout at Chiefs House
• Structured Monthly Staff Meetings
• Big Five Meetings

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Natural SPEED

• S Sleep
• P Priorities
• E Empathy
• E Exercise
• D Diet

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Psychological Hardiness

• Commitment
• Control
• Change
• Conditioning

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Six Fs for Managing Loss/Change

• Let Go of Familiar Past
• Confront Unpredictable Future
• Acknowledge Loss of Face
• Get Support for Rebuilding Focus
• Earn Trusted, Objective Feedback
• Have Faith in Higher/Team Power