How to write a presentation when you’re stressed out
A new study offers some revealing insight on how men and women handle stress, and what it means for the way we work.
Their stress makes sense. Some of the executives feel an unrelenting pressure to perform at work, others are responsible for thousands of peoples’ jobs, and a few haven’t seen their family or slept well for weeks.
So it’s no wonder that these executives aren’t in a great frame of mind when it’s time to put together an important presentation. And according to a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, their stress may be making things worse.
“Trying to make a big decision while you’re also preparing for a scary presentation? You might want to hold off on that. Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risk and reward…under stress, people pay more attention to the upside of a possible outcome.
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