Anxiety

For individuals

A buildup of stressful thoughts can lead to feelings of anxiety. Paying attention to your body’s sensations and what is happening in your surroundings can keep you in the present moment and help you to reduce anxious feelings.

Having a better understanding of what your stressors are can help you to eliminate, address or change the source of your stress. Managing stress provides helpful techniques and tips to better respond to and minimize your stress.

If you feel like stress is negatively impacting your quality of life, Manage anxious or depressive thoughts has easy-to-use activities and audio clips to support you in protecting you overall mental and emotional well-being.

Initiating a conversation with someone who appears to be struggling with anxiety can feel heavy. Someone you care about appears anxious is a resource that offers questions, tips and strategies to help you start a supportive conversation.

For leaders

Workload stress arises from factors like an overwhelming quantity of assignments, inadequate resources, unrealistic deadlines, and unclear expectations. Leaders can help reduce employee stress by clarifying task priorities and expectations, encouraging breaks, and fostering a space where employees can express their concerns or needs about the work assigned to them.

Any change in an organization or to an employee’s role has the potential to cause stress. Helping employees to manage change offers supportive strategies for leaders trying to get their teams on board with company changes, plus ways to retain employees once change is implemented.

The list that follows includes the resources linked to above as well as related information that may be more specific to your current situation: