Dealing with stress in the workplace is paramount for maximising your job performance and keeping a positive mental and physical state. Here are Recruit Mint’s top 10 tips for dealing with stress:

• Get some support

Accept help from others, share the burden of your stress. By including others to help it will help you manage to deal with your stress. Talk to your employer, they may have stress management resources available.

• Establish boundaries

Create some rules to ensure you maintain a work/life balance. These could be as simple as shutting down your computer at 7 pm or not answering your phone after dinner. This will help create a period of complete separation from work, a period where you can truly relax. This will help reduce the possibility of any work/ life conflict.

• Talk to someone about it

If you feel you’re getting stressed at work, one of the best to deal with it is to talk about your stress with someone close to you, whether that is a friend, family member or a work colleague. It is a great way of dealing with stress as it allows you to blow off some steam and get your issues out in front of you so you can start to deal with them.

• Allow yourself time to switch off from work

By constantly worrying over work issues your stress levels will only grow, it’s important that you allow yourself time to switch off and turn your attention to other, more enjoyable issues such as spending time with friends and family.

• Support your health with exercise and a healthy diet

We have all been there, swamped at work saying certain phrases like ‘I’ll go to the gym tomorrow’ or ‘I’ll just nip out and grab something quick to eat’. Taking care of yourself doesn’t mean you must change your entire lifestyle, even the slightest changes can help improve your mood and relieve stress.

• Prioritise and organise

Help yourself to regain control of your time at work, learn to work smart not just hard. You could leave earlier even 15 minutes can make the difference between a hectic and a calm day. Plan a work schedule to give yourself a structure and make sure you have enough time to complete your tasks, this will help you prevent any stress from being overworked.

• Take control

• Challenge yourself

By setting goals you can help establish a more driven and positive mindset, whether the goals are work-related or outside of work. Setting and achieving your goals can be a huge confidence builder and make you more resilient as an individual.

• Accept the things you cannot change

Changing or improving a negative situation isn’t always possible, it’s important to concentrate on aspects that you can affect. This will prevent wasted energy and stress over outcomes that you can have no effect on.

• Put everything into perspective

What means the most to you seeing friends, time with the family, your health? You always have the freedom of changing your job, if you feel you’re getting pushed too hard by your employer and you’re losing any kind of work/life balance and it is starting to have a negative impact, then it’s time to look for a new role.

Stress affects us all and if it’s getting too much then it’s time to look for a new role. If you have reached this point then get in contact with Recruit Mint and we can help you find a less stressful solution.