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Practicing Safe Stress for Programmers

Practicing Safe Stress for Programmers. Mark Gorkin “The Stress Doc”. Four Stages of Burnout. Physical, Mental and Emotional Exhaustion Shame and Doubt Cynicism and Callousness Failure, Helplessness and Crisis. Seven Stages of Grief. “It Can’t Happen Here!” “Oh God, What Do I Do Now?”

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Practicing Safe Stress for Programmers

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  1. Practicing Safe Stress for Programmers Mark Gorkin “The Stress Doc”

  2. Four Stages of Burnout • Physical, Mental and Emotional Exhaustion • Shame and Doubt • Cynicism and Callousness • Failure, Helplessness and Crisis

  3. Seven Stages of Grief • “It Can’t Happen Here!” • “Oh God, What Do I Do Now?” • “How Dare They!” or “How Could They?” • “Damned If You Do or If You Don’t!” • “Turning a Lemon Into Lemonade” • “Now You’re Ready to ‘Just Do It!’” • “Glass Is Half Empty and Half Full”

  4. Managing Reorganizational Stress:Macro & 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

  5. Managing Reorganizational Stress:Team Perspective • Meaningful Staff & Team Meetings • Supervisor Wears Two Hats • Wavelength Segment: Task & Process • Morning Huddles & Informal Lunches • Cookout at Chief’s House • Structured Monthly Staff Meetings • “Big Five” Meetings

  6. Natural SPEED • S = Sleep • P = Priorities • E = Empathy • E = Exercise • D = Diet

  7. Psychological Hardiness • Commitment • Control • Change • Conditioning

  8. Six “F”s 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

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