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How we can deal individually with stress and pressure in the workplace? And what should companies be doing to reduce that stress?

Paul Phillips has spent over 25 years working in agencies, in both the UK and US, including 14 years at VCCP, where he set up the specialist healthcare agency, VCCP Health.

He left the agency world in 2017 to offer training in various areas, including workshops on 'Managing pressure and stress and building resilience'. 

Paul’s approach is rooted in the science of how the body and brain respond to pressure and he offers a practical, evidence-based guide to handling the challenges we face in the business world. 

Paul and I discuss:

• what happens to our brain and body when we become stressed and how our amygdala (the part of the brain that detects danger) can hijack the prefrontal cortex (the rational part that regulates thoughts and emotions) causing the release of hormones and sugar into the bloodstream;
• the common thinking traps that we can fall into, including catastrophising; mind-reading; personalising / self-criticism; filtering; black and white thinking; and the tyranny of ‘shoulds’;
• what we can do to reframe our thinking;
• and what companies and business leaders and managers should be doing more (and less of) to reduce workplace stress and improve employee wellbeing.