Let's STRESS!

We all often go through stress situations, such as arriving late for the last train, when thinking about the future, job situations etc. Today we were taught about leadership roles and how a leader should always be punctual. However, our facilitators arrived late for the afternoon session. They seemed annoyed because they had an issue to be dealt with at the facilitator´s prep-meeting. They banged the door behind them and acquinted everyone in a harsh tone when assigning us a task of building a bridge symbolizing the good leadership. This made us frustrated, desperate, uncomfortable and confused! They were coming in and out of the room saying "you have 15 minutes to finish the task, you need to improve a lot on that".

The group started a brainstorm, even though we didn't know what we must do and felt no motivation, we found ourselves coming up with ideas quickly: "...two of us can paint symbols, other two can cut papers and the rest tie the bridge". Sadly, at this point Markus, one of our facilitators, showed up with a negative attitude, letting us know that he had quit the seminar because there had been an argument between the facilitators. Now we realized that it was just a role played to demonstrate to us and give us a case to reflect upon afterwards.

The discussion afterwards gave us tools to handle stressful situations.

Questions such as these came up: "how can you see the different leader roles manifest themselves in a work situation under pressure?", "how can a leader role be efficient in stressful situations?"
Being a leader you´ll be confronted with stress which can cause a lot frustration.

Therefore, be watchful!!!