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Stress at work may take different forms with different intensities. For professions with high risks (military occupations, airline or nuclear industry occupations, health and emergency occupations, for example), acute stress may relate to crisis management. Whatever the form or the intensity it takes, strategies and techniques of stress management (among which techniques for optimizing the potential) may help individuals to reduce the physiological effects of stress and avoid or escape from a cognitive deficit state: emotion regulation, stimulating breathing, relaxing breathing or diaphragmatic breathing, square breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, internal dialogue or self-talk, mental rehearsal, reflex adjustment signal-sign, power nap or caffeine nap, and effect of light. For crisis management, this may be of great importance by helping the leader to manage stress and keep it at the appropriate level. Doing so, the leader will be able to provide optimal directions to follow during the crisis: studies have shown that the leader is able to federate the 70% of people in such a context provided that s/he is able to give the way forward, that is, to guide people by what s/he recommends or asks.
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de Meritens, B.G., Fauquet-Alekhine, P. (2023). Stress Management. In: Fauquet-Alekhine, P., Erskine, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Occupational Stress. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27349-0_21
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