Manage Anxiety at Work Coaching

Who Signs Up for Coaching to Help Manage Anxiety at Work?

Many people experience anxiety at times in their professional life. It’s only normal to feel some anxiety ahead of making an important presentation to a large crowd of industry colleagues or before an interview for a position that you’ve set your heart on. However, if you’re able to acknowledge your anxiety on such occasions, show up anyway and not have anxiety adversely affect your performance then your anxiety may even have served you by ensuring you prepared well and turned up on time.

However, if you often feel anxious or stressed in your professional life and it prevents you from meeting deadlines, getting across your views effectively with those around you and specifically your higher-ups, making decisions, making telephone calls, progressing in your career or if it disrupts your eating or sleeping then it may be time to learn how to better cope with your anxiety.

People who sign up for coaching to help them manage their anxiety or stress at work are often desperate to share their story of anxiety with someone who will hear them, empathise and seek to understand their experience. Some senior professionals and managers feel ashamed that outwardly they appear to be successful and in control and yet they are dogged by anxiety. Opening up to a qualified and experienced coach and counsellor means you'll have a supportive and non-judgemental space where you can learn how to better deal with your anxiety.

What is Anxiety ?

​​Anxiety encompasses feelings of worry, nervousness or dread; all of which may be unpleasant. On the plus side anxiety can signal to you that something isn’t right, which may help you avoid danger. Feeling anxious can also be a cue to you that you need to make important and meaningful changes in your life.

The Symptoms of Anxiety
  • Anxiety can make you feel restless, on edge and irritable.
  • You may have difficulty concentrating or controlling your emotions.
  • Anxiety can produce physical symptoms such as stomachache,
  • Headache, tension in your muscles, shakiness.
  • Anxiety can disrupt your sleep.
  • Anxiety can affect your appetite and eating patterns

What is Stress?

Stress at work is the adverse reaction a person has to the demands that are placed on them at work. Some pressure at work can be motivating. However, if you experience too much stress, it can interfere with your ability to to do your job.
Stress can be seen as a response to a threatening situation - that you are becoming overwhelmed. Anxiety can arise in response to the stress.

​You may feel stress at work due to work pressures such as an excessive workload, long hours, lack of support, organisational change, lack of support and harassment or bullying.

The Symptoms of Stress

Work-related stress can cause you to experience many different and often unpleasant symptoms including the following:-
  • ​​Low productivity accompanied by feelings of low achievement
  • Stress can cause you to consume too much caffeine, alcohol or food
  • Stress can cause you to have low mood
  • Stress may lead to absence from work or taking sick leave
  • Being cynical and defensive
  • Headaches or backaches
  • Indigestion
  • Weight loss or gain
  • Irritability or outbursts of anger

Why It’s Important to Manage Anxiety at Work​
  • ​​​If you can't manage your anxiety at work then there’s a risk that over time you'll feel more anxious, more often.  Your anxiety may become debilitating and even result in panic attacks.
  • When professionals suffer from anxiety they may miss out on projects, promotions and rewards and the opportunity to bring all their talents into the world.
  • Feeling anxious can be accompanied by feelings of unworthiness, lack of self-esteem and shame and can lead to a vicious cycle of self-loathing and feeling more anxious.
  • Feeling anxious can reduce your enjoyment of your work and work relationships.

What is Managing Anxiety at Work Coaching?

My managing anxiety at work coaching can help you in two ways :-
  • To develop practical and effective strategies to deal with specific situations that provoke anxiety in you.
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  • To work at a deeper level so that you change the relationship you have with your anxiety, so that your anxiety is less able to ‘hijack’ you  at work. This deeper work will enable you to take back even greater control of your anxiety.

The Benefits of Managing Your Anxiety at Work Coaching :-
  • Empathic understanding of your situation and the challenges you face with your anxiety at work.
  • A supportive non-judgmental space where you can talk about your anxiety and how it is affecting you you at work.
  • You'll spend less time in unproductive anxious states which prevent you from getting your work done, achieving your performance objectives and making progress in your career.
  • Strategies, tools and techniques to manage your anxiety at work so that you can feel more calm and collected everyday.
  • An understanding of what causes your anxiety and the most effective ways to manage it. 
  • You'll be better able to manage your workload and stop procrastinating.
  • You’ll be better able to maintain a calm and collected presence and feel relaxed inside more of the time so you enjoy work and work relationships more.
  • More confidence as you express yourself more fully in your role.
  • Greater sense of purpose and satisfaction  as you are better able to fully engage with your work, and your colleagues.​

If you'd like support, understanding and help to deal with your anxiety at work more effectively, let’s have a chat about your situation and how managing anxiety coaching with me can give you the tools and strategies you need to help you overcome your individual drivers of anxiety.

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