Success Under Stress: Powerful Tools for Staying Calm, Confident, and Productive When the Pressure's

Sharon Melnick provides a flexible array of stress-busting strategies to help you overcome the things that are weighing you down.

From overflowing priority lists to power-hungry colleagues to nagging parental guilt, stress is the defining characteristic of most of our lives. Business psychologist Sharon Melnick teaches you how to gain control and exude calmness amidst everyday chaos by offering professional-level solutions appropriate to assist you in managing your big-time stressors.

Success Under Stress ditches one-size-fits-all breathing exercises and visualization techniques and instead offers tangible advice to help you:

• see opportunities rather than obstacles,
• get focused when overwhelmed,
• find energy when exhausted,
• stay calm when wired,
• and change the problem to prevent stress from returning.

You'll gain a veritable arsenal of "magic-bullet" solutions--hundreds of situation-specific, quick-acting tips for defusing stress and boosting productivity complete with quizzes, examples, exercises, and more that allows you to reach your professional goals.