How does one manage the intense pressure of completing a task requested by my managing director, when he is watching over me whilst I start and go through the task, making the situation feel pressured and overwhelming?

Hopefully a few of you can relate to this!

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Hopefully, the intention isn’t to make it that overwhelming, even though I can understand it does. I just tell myself they are doing it because they care about the work I am doing and want to be helpful. Is that always the case? No, but it does make me feel better.

Yes that’s it, just the thought of being watched and everything going wrong whilst in the moment, happens to the best of us then!🤣

I guess that depends on how it feels, whether it's a good faith effort to coach you or an effort to micromanage and antagonize you. I would like to be charitable and assume the managing director was just making sure you were getting things started off properly. But a good manager would give you space to do your work and not try to make it into a high-pressure situation.

I can definitely relate. I had a director do that once and I felt like every click of my keyboard was being judged. It is tough to stay calm when someone is breathing down your neck. How do you personally cope?

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