The directors' club discussed options for dealing with stress

The Directors' Club, a discussion platform for managers and business owners, held a regular meeting on the topical topic: "Stress resistance of a director as a test of business strength."

The topic of stress in business has always been relevant, and last year its relevance increased significantly. Speakers and club experts - leaders from various sectors of the economy, with many years of business experience and entrepreneurial skills, spoke about their attitude to stress and shared their own life hacks.

Alexander Shapkin (director, owner of the SAMI marketing agency, consultant in the field of practical sociology and research) plunged directors into the world of psychology and the concept of the unconscious, spoke about subjective psychic reality. The speaker spoke about the mutual influence of such phenomena as frustration, narcissism, basic mental trauma with stress factors and the experience of stress; dedicated managers to ways and options to reduce stress, especially with prolonged stress. After the presentation, the participants discussed possible individual reactions to stress and the level of stress resistance of business leaders.

Yulia Krupnitskaya, a certified FPA trainer, a leading trainer at the Genesis Fitla fitness boutique, touched upon the physiological and endocrinological components of stress. “Stress is the body's exit from homeostasis and balance,” the speaker believes. “The person is thrown out of balance, stress hormones rise, the body starts to work differently.” However, life is filled with stresses of different levels, from minimal and ordinary for us, to extraordinary or those that throw us out of balance completely and for a long time. But man is an adaptive being, he adapts to stress, finds the body's reserves, and thus trains himself and his stress resistance.

“In fitness and sports training, the stressful state of a person is immediately visible,” Yulia continues. - Usually such people are hunched, the flexibility of the body is reduced, all the muscles are clamped. The body seems to “freeze” in stress. Physical activity and sports help to get out of stress only when the very cause of stress is eliminated, otherwise everything goes in a circle. Therefore, sport is great, but it is necessary to work simultaneously with the cause of stress.

Expert Grigory Krasheninnikov ( entrepreneur, investor, creator, co-owner of COWO British co-working, Hit & Meat gastro cafe, Double Bubble bar - lecture hall, Vorobey Bar speakeasy) shared his thoughts on the stress resistance of directors and talked about his ways to reduce stress . “The longer we live, the more stress in life. The world is changing, and a leader must have qualities to resist - this is creativity, emotional flexibility, hard work and perseverance," Grigory is sure. He also listed his ways of getting out of stress. For example, compare your situation with the even worse situation of the “neighbor”; in case of situational stress, just hold your breath for a few minutes and then give yourself a pause to decide nothing; focus on tasks in different areas of life - if the stress is at work, then focus on the family, if there are stressful situations in the inner circle, then go to work.

Elena Evstafieva, Head of Development Department, Taiga. info”, told how the leader should act in case of a stressful situation in the team, what measures to take for his team; how to hire stress-resistant employees and reduce the level of uncertainty, and, therefore, the biggest stress factor in the company. “Learn to look at the world positively, find in failures what you can learn in the future, draw working conclusions from stressful situations, use humor!”, the speaker comments.

Inna Mulbaer, Executive Director of the UMG Center for Aesthetic Medicine, spoke about her experience of working with stressful situations in medical teams, shared her ways of getting out of stress, suggested to managers to study the types of pleasures that they enjoy and use them as a “stress cure”. The head of a medical clinic is under double stress: patients come in with their own stress, and doctors may have their own stresses. To resist in such situations is, first of all, to be balanced and collected. To do this, the director must set clear goals for the team, for himself and move forward.

The participants and experts of the meeting agreed that a lot has been said and done in life on the topic of stress tolerance. And the experience of each, synthesizing, gives colleagues new options for getting out of stressful conditions that are often encountered in the life of a leader.

The next meeting of the Club of Directors will be held on March 25, the topic for discussion is “2021. Recruiting in new realities»