Stress and Leadership

Stress Management For Dynamic Individuals

The Ten Actors Methodology™

Our commitment: This customised high impact state of the art workshop, together with its comprehensive handout, will provide you with the most effective stress-management tool that is currently available within the corporate worlds; transforming the way you think about the connection between executive stress and personal effectiveness.

Stress is a far bigger problem, with a far deeper impact on the workplace, than what most corporate leaders realize.

In the year 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared stress to be amongst the three most lethal diseases of the 21st century. Nine years hence, stress-related diseases are now challenging the number one spot. On average, at least 40% of the workforces of any 21st century organization are exposed to excessive levels of potentially debilitating stress.

Stress burnout is responsible for derailing many bright, talented individuals from leading a fulfilling, productive life, both at work and in their personal affairs.

Stress is a result of excessive demands, sensory overloads, Inability to cope and most of all, limited self-awareness and product knowledge of the range and scope of the human capability.

A Concise Overview Of Stress At Mental And Physiological Levels

At physiological level:

Excessive over production of cortisol, also known as ‘the stress hormone’ that has multiple corrosive side effects throughout the brain and body.
Over-activation of the ‘Fight-Flight’ mechanism, resulting in the release of excessive amounts of adrenaline into the blood stream, resulting in prolonged states of metabolic overdrive.
A permanent state of (di)stress that weakens the ‘relaxation response’ mechanism of the body that is responsible for getting the system back to balance, to a point of it ceasing to function, often leading to situations of breakdowns of the immune system due to being in a permanently overactive state; resulting in all manner of illness and impairment of memory and cognizance due to brain damage.
The internal organs and systems of the body gradually becoming a dumping ground for toxic energies due to the breakdown of the natural exhaust systems of the body and mind.

At mental level:

Taking what is coming one’s way far too personally, coupled with the habit of being overly emotionally reactive when under pressure.
Reacting out of a narrow range of mental and behavioural formations again and again, regardless of what the situation calls for.
Perceiving small segments of what is happening; inability to interpret and translate perceptions and spot new opportunities in ways that make practical sense.
Not knowing how to contain pressure and stress and keep them at bay, resulting in mental and emotional ‘electro-shock waves’ that reverberate throughout the body, all the way to one’s genetic formations.
Perception deficiency resulting in a person reacting more to ‘mind ghosts’ and one’s imagination than to what is really happening.
Lack of psychological fitness, leading to the super-amplification of pressure in one’s own mind and brain.

A healthy diet, regular exercise, meditations, love and happiness and sensible work-life balances are all important for a healthy body and soul. However, there is only one way to deal with stress effectively: By learning to deal with it at its source, at the point of its arising, rather than trying to manage its multiple symptoms.

The Era Of Change: Being Prepared And Ready To Engage

21st century leaders are being constantly challenged with having to cope with unpredictability spiced with exponential growth in complexity and multiplicity. Consider the enormous range of variables and subtle nuances that you need to be aware of and comprehend in different situations in order to offer intelligent responses. The inner story of what is actually happening in us at the point of action during brief moments can be mind-boggling.

There is only one way to train oneself to be able to handle demands, change, volatility and unpredictability: By arriving to a state of inner readiness through being connected to one’s phenomenal human potential. And, in a manner that exposes a range of options to choose from, so as to replace the ‘one act’ syndrome by developing the ability to activate and come out of any one of a spectrum of possibilities that exist by way of dedicated natural formations across the brain, mind, soul and spiritual dimensions.

This is the foundational concept that gave birth to the Ten Actors of Self Leadership™. This groundbreaking methodology reveals the fundamental developmental concept for dealing with stress in the context of personal effectiveness, locating ten cardinal mental interfaces – The Ten Actors – that become active in different ways and combinations according to the needs of the situation that one finds oneself in.

The Ten Actors Methodology™ is about training oneself to meet, respond and handle life and its many pressures and stresses, as it happens, at the point. It is about developing mental versatility, finesse and agility, towards becoming a highly skilled human; wearing the mental cloak that fits the moment by being an inspired practitioner of the incredible chameleon-like, still evolving, capabilities of the human.

“….the insight of the Ten Actors Methodology to handle stressful situations is a powerful help for me”

G.D. senior department head, Dutch ministry of Spatial Planning, Housing and Environment

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