Anxiety In The Workplace

In one particular situation that I was in a few years ago, I used all three strategies to successfully lower my uncertainty. This occurred when I began to work at my first job, which was at a family owned restaurant. Like all things that are uncommon and new to anyone, there is a sense of uncertainty and anxiety that many people feel, and in this situation I was definitely experiencing this. After a few weeks of working there, I had developed a few relationships with my co-workers, but I had yet to know who worked there that was related to the owner. Not knowing if I was working in front of someone related to the family was very nerve wrecking to me. It was this problem that caused me to worry about incorrectly doing my job, and
Although at this point I was well aware of many of the details about my co-workers, I only knew about those related to the family from other sources, and not from them their selves. Despite the fact that knowing this information did not have a critical impact on me, I decided to form relationships with these people in an attempt to obtain the information anyway. In the initial stage of meeting one another, I was slightly nervous, but the first two strategies caused a majority of that to go away. As our relationships began to form and strengthen, it occurred to me that this issue I was attempting to solve was not nearly as big of a deal as I thought it out to be. With that being said, directly approaching these family members of the owner did cause our relationships with one another to grow, and my uncertainty decreased completely. In the end, the nature of this family ran restaurant strengthened the connection between nearly everyone who worked there, including those related to the family. My doubt and insecurity had vanished, and it was due to the use of all three strategies. The second strategy was definitely the most useful, but without the first and third strategies to begin my decrease in uncertainty and end it completely, I likely would not have done so in as short as time as I did. I feel that nearly all situations that have a sense of anxiety will benefit from not just one strategy, but all of them, and I think my situation is a great example of