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Job Stress - What Can You Do About It? The subject matter is likely to be something specific about the company itself or an aspect of the job. Your audience could be anyone - staff members, clients, potential partners, students considering joining the organisation.Today’s workforce faces a multitude of pressures: deadlines, office politics, nonproductive meetings, conflict, job ambiguity, miscommunication, increased workload, inadequate resources, customer complaints and long hours. . . to name just a few. On-the-job stress can be quite costly, too, because it often results in increased absenteeism, reduced efficiency, low morale, reduced effectiveness, and high staff turnover.Researchers have discovered that since 1965 the over Be Aware of Whichever scenario you encounter, you can make sure you are well prepared. If you know the subject of your presentation in advance, this is obviously a great deal easier, but also means much more will be expected of you. So you must take the time to put together a professional presentation and practise it until you can do it in your sleep! Let’s assume you know your subject in advance. Here are a few pointers to ensure a smooth presentation. Read the Brief You must make sure you understand exactly what you are required to talk about in your presentation and to whom it will be addressed. The subject matter is likely to be something specific about the company itself or an aspect of the job. Your audience could be anyone - staff members, clients, potential partners, students considering joining the organisation. Be Aware of Whichever scenario you encounter, you can make sure you are well prepared. If you know the subject of your presentation in advance, this is obviously a great deal easier, but also means much more will be expected of you. So you must take the time to put together a professional presentation and practise it until you can do it in your sleep! Let’s assume you know your subject in advance. Here are a few pointers to ensure a smooth presentation. Read the Brief You must make sure you understand exactly what you are required to talk about in your presentation and to whom it will be addressed. The subject matter is likely to be something specific about the company itself or an aspect of the job. Your audience could be anyone - staff members, clients, potential partners, students considering joining the organisation. Be Aware of Let’s assume you know your subject in advance. Here are a few pointers to ensure a smooth presentation. Read the Brief You must make sure you understand exactly what you are required to talk about in your presentation and to whom it will be addressed. The subject matter is likely to be something specific about the company itself or an aspect of the job. Your audience could be anyone - staff members, clients, potential partners, students considering joining the organisation. Be Aware of Read the Brief You must make sure you understand exactly what you are required to talk about in your presentation and to whom it will be addressed. The subject matter is likely to be something specific about the company itself or an aspect of the job. Your audience could be anyone - staff members, clients, potential partners, students considering joining the organisation. Be Aware of Be Aware of your Audience It’s important to prepare a talk aimed at the audience, rather than the interviewers. For example, if you are being interviewed for a post in student services at a university or college, you may be asked to explain the student loans system and other sources of funding to a group of new students. The people facing you will all be managers and HR staff. Some of them will know the system and others won’t know or care to know. But you have to imagine that you are talking to a group of students, all of whom are really worried about how they are going to manage their finances. So prepare accordingly. Timing If you are asked to give a 5 minute presentation, make it 5 minutes, not 10. A few seconds over or under is fine and for a longer presentation, you’ll get away with a minute or two. But if you ramble on for 10 or 15 minutes in a supposedly 5 minute talk, you will not make a good impression. What will this say about you? That you are not
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