Handling Stress at Work / Mini Quiz / By lakhiroy@gmail.com Welcome to MindAtop Just for Fun Mini-Quiz on Handling Stress at Work. It should take a couple of minutes to finish. Have fun! You are caught in heavy workload and fast approaching multiple deadlines. What do you do now? You become indecisive and lose significant time trying to figure out the best course of action You immediately prioritize the tasks, create a schedule and get going You work continuously without taking any break You forget the workload and take a day off None You are being loaded with additional responsibilities decisively causing more stress within you. What do you do? Grab every opportunity that comes your way. After all it is an honour to you! Grudgingly accept them and keep complaining to your coworkers Try to convince the superiors and request them not to give more responsibilities Delegate tasks to others as much as possible None You are working efficiently but despite giving your best you see that you will not be able to finish the work by the upcoming deadline. What do you do? Take quick stock of the situation and cut down the rigours and details in the output proportionately Add more time to work out of your home or personal time Slog it out by increasing your speed further risking erroneous output Seek support of colleagues or friends to help you out None You have a difficult task at hand and you have a bunch of useless staff members. What do you do? Forget them, you start doing most work yourself You engage with your higher authorities trying to get better manpower You freely complain about your staff members to your coworkers You communicate the challenges to your staff members and delegate them work based on their strengths and commitments None You have a conflict with your colleague and it is causing stress. What do you do? Ignore the conflict and ignore the colleague as well Talk about the conflict with others trying to prove your point Engage the colleague in an argument trying to prove your point Seek a private conversation with the colleague and try to resolve the conflict constructively None Your work focus is getting affected by continuous inflow of emails and messages. What do you do? Dispose the emails and messages the moment they come in Ignore the incoming communications altogether Complain about the volume of incoming communications to colleagues Set specific times to check and respond to incoming communications None How often do you bring your work home? Regularly Sometimes Rarely, you try not to bring work home Never None How important is WORK for you? Work is important but other things are important as well. You try to balance them Work is nothing. Other things are more important for you Work is your top priority. It defines your very identity You never thought about it None Time's up
