Workplace Anxiety

A new study shows workplace anxiety can boost performance by helping employees focus and self regulate their behaviour. Do you agree in your organisation?

Parents
  • I have a real problem with language that uses the term anxiety and portraying it as a strategy to improve performance. Nowhere in my experience of being a squash coach, interviewing an high performance athletes, or working with business professionals over the last 30 years, have I found anxiety a performance enhancing technique, quite the opposite. Anxiety inhibits, not enhances performance.
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  • I have a real problem with language that uses the term anxiety and portraying it as a strategy to improve performance. Nowhere in my experience of being a squash coach, interviewing an high performance athletes, or working with business professionals over the last 30 years, have I found anxiety a performance enhancing technique, quite the opposite. Anxiety inhibits, not enhances performance.
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