Principles
Greenberg identified several time management techniques as explained below:
Assertiveness: The assertiveness technique allows the individual to express their desires and satisfy personal needs in a manner that does not hurt the feeling of others. Greenberg argued, “If you act assertively, you are usually achieving your needs while maintaining effective interpersonal relationships” (150).
Active and reflective listening: Active and reflective listening helps in conflict resolution and promotes a good relationship between parties. As Greenberg claimed, "The listener creates awareness on the speaker's part that the listener cares enough to understand his or her views really by reflecting the speaker’s thoughts and words” (Greenberg 155).
Managing Emotions: Managing emotions is a technique that helps the person perceives feelings of the other person and regulating one’s emotions to make good decisions and act accordingly. The technique plays a critical role in creating and maintaining relationships through understanding each other’s feelings; hence, avoids wasting time and stressing each other (Greenberg 158).
Setting goals: Setting personal goals is an effective time management technique. Greenberg explained the technique by arguing, “If you don’t have a clear sense of where you are headed, you will not be able to plan how to get there” (Greenberg 161).
Implications
Each of the following time management technique provides stress management to individuals and others. The assertive time management technique helps a person manage his or her time and that of the other person by avoiding conflicting situations. The argument by Greenberg on assertive behavior reveals that a person who acts assertively avoids saves his or her time and that of the other person and help to avoid stressing moments. Active and reflective listening techniques play a critical role in saving the time spent by both the speaker and the listener arguing about a simple problem. The listener plays a role in preventing stressing moments by accepting the argument of the speaker; hence, avoiding stressing situations for both parties. Managing another person's emotions also makes the individual settled and more comfortable. It maintains a good and understanding relationship that provides stress reduction environment. Finally, setting goals helps reduce stressing by allowing a person to manage his or her time and avoid wasting other people’s precious time.
Work Cited
Greenberg, Jerrold S. Comprehensive Stress Management. Boston, Mass: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
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