The following 10 tips can help you reduce your overall stress and ease specific sources of anxiety. Maintain a sense of personal power. Personal power is defined as how much control you feel you have over your life, your ability to function and express yourself. Ideally, your work environment will be an organization where colleagues and superiors listen to your problems and solutions and you're consulted when your role is redesigned, given the resources and information needed to perform the job and can contribute your ideas. Practice effective communication.
Communication is essential for preventing and easing tensions.
Whether you head a team or are a team of one, how effective you are at communication depends on how well you understand others' verbal and nonverbal messages. Pay attention to co-workers' gestures, tone of voice and posture. Develop good working relationships. Trust, respect, understanding and compassion are necessary in any relationship. Co-workers have to function as a team and reach a common goal.