Reduce Stress | Part 2

Handle Stress During Meetings

When you are stressed your breath is shallow and fast. If you reverse that breathing, you fight back your stress within minutes.

Box breathing: A useful tool

While developing this course material, we also developed a digital aid for box breathing, it’s a simple application that runs in your browser and helps you keep track of time while performing “controlled breath exercises”.

2.1 How to Breathe Stress Away

Learn how to breathe the right way to reduce stress.

2.2 Speak with Confidence and Assurance

“Fake it till you make it” - this is the idea in this video, where you will learn to use your body language to signal calm and confidence both to your own nervous system and to your stakeholders.

2.3 Keep A Poker Face

These tips are good to have when you have crucial meetings that stresses you. With these techniques you can easily project calm despite inner nervousness. The impact: You will experience a feeling of calm.

2.4 Only Answer What is Being Asked

When stressed, the brain jumps. Learn how to stay on track, and feel the positive impact it has - not only on your stakeholders - but also on your self.

2.5 Ask Questions to the Questions

Get back in control during a stressful meeting with this simple technique.