Dealing with stress (Market Leader listening Unit 5)

What are the common causes of stress at work?

• Having too many things to do, losing control of a situation and not being paid enough.

• Having a lot to do, dealing with annoying people and working more than required with no payment.

• Having a lot to do, not having control of situations and not being in a good work environment.

• A bad work environment, losing control of the situations and working more than required with no payment.

What is resilience to stress?

• Identify the areas of a company where employees feel more stress.

• Letting the feeling take over, have a rage, and finally feel calmer.

• Identifying the possible causes of stress to stop having this feeling.

• Helping people to have different responses to stressful situations to feel calmer.

Complete the sentences with the missing word:

It's difficult to say really what's a ______ level of stress for somebody to feel at work.

The problem with that is that what one person finds really ______ and it excites them to

be able to do their job well, somebody else might find really, really ______.

*USE A (/) TO SEPARATE YOUR ANSWERS*

What we do see is that actually a high level of continued ______ can actually sometimes spill over

into feelings of stress.

How can companies help their staff to achive a work-life balance?

• With flexibility

• With financial incentives

• Making their workers stay late because the boss requires it

• By letting the staff go home early

What is a possible reason for women to feel more stressed than men?

• Because of a bad managment of work-life balance

• They have more responsabilities in their homes

• They deal with horrible working environments

• Because they're more open about their feelings