Helping others can reduce your stress because when you volunteer, you will have higher levels of the feel good hormones and the trust and bonding hormones, naturally created in your body.
Of course it helps if the volunteer experience is a good one and we all know that's not always the case. So, in order to ensure that your volunteer experience and the volunteer experience of others is relatively stress free, here are 28 behaviors to live by and 28 more behaviors to avoid at all cost.
Managing Workplace Stress While Volunteering - Get The Real Benefits Of Volunteering.
# Smile
# Find reasons to be thankful
# Ask what you can do to help
# Respect people's privacy and confidentiality
# Be a good ambassador for the organization
# Work out conflicts respectfully and peacefully
# Speak only for yourself
# Show up a few minutes early and stay a few minutes late to meetings
# Follow e-mail etiquette guideline - DON'T ABUSE E-MAIL
# Stay a few minutes late to meetings
# Take on only the tasks you can manage within your schedule
# Leave your ego at home
# Ask for help if you are feeling overwhelmed
# Have a positive attitude
# Show your appreciation of others
# Be a part of the solution
# Be honest and ethical
# Don't make mountains out of molehills
# Stay within the bounds of the law
# Keep your defensiveness in check
# If your toes are being stepped on, pull in your feet
# Lend a hand, even if it's not your job, if you have the time
# Stay in communication and stay informed
# Be resourceful
# Don't be afraid to share your ideas
# Get your friends involved
# Say thank you to the organizers
# Leave the organization if you start to hate it
# Report problems before they become too big
Managing Workplace Stress While Volunteering - Behaviors To Avoid.
# Spreading gossip
# Micromanaging others
# Not following through on commitments
# Forming cliques
# Bringing a personal agenda (especially a negative one)
# Monopolizing meetings
# Not attending meetings
# Being late for meetings
# Spreading yourself too thin, taking on too much
# Subversive bullying
# Emotionally abusing paid employees or other volunteers
# Being too sensitive and taking things too personally
# Not staying informed
# Putting down or knocking the organization
# Looking the other way when problems happen
# Speaking for others without their permission
# Not doing your best
# Participating in unethical activities
# Participating in illegal activities
# Participating in immoral activities
# Wasting the organization's time
# Wasting the organization's money
# Wasting the organization's resources
# Staying involved after you have lost interest
# Creating problems
# Complaining and griping about everything
# Being judgmental of other volunteers and staff
# Being negative all the time.
Go to http://www.strictly-stress-management.com/managing_workplace_stress.html to watch a great video on this important subject.
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