Title of this article is Managing Stress in Projects Using Coaching Leadership Tools. This article is about How to manage stress for project manager using coaching skills. As a project manager there a lot of pressure they need to handle. They need to deal with a client and their workers. Stress is an adaptive response to a situation that is perceived as challenging or threatening to a person’s wellbeing (McShane and Glinow,2013). Every project manager has to go through stress in trying to get the project to turn out successfully, handle tough team members and get the project done. And it isn’t easy (Chan,2013). As you know project manager also human being who sometimes cannot control their feeling and problem and it will make them very stressful. If the stress is left unattended it will make the stress worse and the stress will change to more difficult feeling which stressor and job burnout. According to Mc Shane (2013) stressor is a any environmental conditions that place a physical or emotional demand on a person and job burnout is a the process of emotional exhaustion, cynicism and reduced personal accomplishment that resulted from prolonged exposure to stressor. There many consequences from stress and for sure it will affect the project progress because many work will be pending and the performance of work not meet the customer expectation. As a project manager, they should know how to handle their stress and make sure their stress not affect the project progress. When making a project it involves lot of money and people, if the project not run as expected the will loss.
Background of this article is about a leadership tools that can be use by project manager in managing their stress. The leadership that been explain in this article will help the project manager and their team to reduce the stress. The researcher explains few incidents will cause stress and the effect of the stress.