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WRK110: The Confidence Advantage

Week 10 Discussion

COLLAPSE

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Imagine you’re mentoring one of the people in the scenario below who is experiencing a stressful situation in the workplace. Explain how using one of Queen Latifah’s strategies (either reaching out to others or time management) can help the person you are mentoring rise above their stress.

Ashlee and James both work together in accounting and are each responsible for half of an extensive presentation. Ashlee tries to work on the presentation a little each day, while James tends to wait until the last minute to turn in his portions of the project. But, because they rely on each other for certain tasks, Ashlee is often forced to wait for James and then rush to complete her assignments.

Ashlee complains that James’ procrastination is causing her to worry about his work as well as her own and is giving her unnecessary stress. Likewise, James is stressed by Ashlee’s anger and constant hovering. Because of the conflict, James is missing more work, and you suspect it’s because he wants to avoid Ashlee.

How can you help either Ashlee or James rise above their stress using one of the two strategies?

Part 2: Respond to one or more of your classmates post below.

Alinza Johnson 

RE: Sample Response & Peer Reply

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Hello class and Professor,

I would like to help Ashlee because Ashlee seems the most stress and it only sounds like they have different ways of working. Some people like Ashlee like to work on things a little each day and then you have people who like to cram their work in. Ashlee needs to learn to communicate with James so she can control her stress levels if they were to actually sit down and talk they would both find out what each person expects from one another. Then she wouldn't have to hover over James to make sure he gets his part done and that adds stress to James so I would help Ashlee to understand that she can only do her part and hopefully James will do his but stressing over it is not good you can only worry about whats infront of you and what you are capable of doing.

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