Real Stress Reduction or a Band-Aid?

A professional speaker friend just flew in from the mainland to speak to employees at a small company here. The company knew its employees are stressed due to long hours, traffic problems, and poor morale. To solve this problem, they hired my friend to come in and speak for an hour on how to use humor to release your stress.

My friend is a wonderful speaker, but let’s face it, an hour of making people laugh is not going to solve their problems! In fact, because they were dragged away from their work for this meeting, it no doubt increased their stress levels. And if they ever found out how much he was paid, their stress would go through the roof!

To reduce stress, employees need tools they can make into habits to use every day. Yes, keeping a sense of humor is important, but there are 5 choices we can make that have been proven scientifically to reduce stress. Anything else is just a band-aid.