TCB Meet vs The Microstress Effect

Get the most out of your conference experience with The Conference Board's "TCB Meet" Event App How to gain access: • Download the App • Select "Request a Password" and enter email address used to register for Conference to create unique password App Features Overview: • Conference Materials: Access the full agenda with maps, speaker bios, presentations, surveys, up-to-the-minute updates and more! (to reduce TCB’s carbon footprint, we will not have printed handouts on-site). • My Schedule: Create and view your customized itinerary. • Messages: Send and receive messages from fellow attendees and conference planner- before, during and after the event. • Continuing Education Credits: Check-Ins: Sign-up for CEUs (listed on top of the in-app agenda for each day). • Digital Business Card Exchange: Create and swap digital business cards with fellow attendees • Activity Feed: Keep your finger on the pulse of the event by viewing and posting to the app activity feed. • Leaderboard: Participate in the Badge Game for a chance to win prizes.

There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of—and it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress. This hidden epidemic of small moments of stress has insidiously infiltrated both our work and our personal lives with invisible but devastating effects. Microstress doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, it embeds itself in our minds and accumulates daily, one microstress on top of the other. The long-term impact can be debilitating. Unregistered microstress weighs us down, damages our physical and emotional health, and contributes to a decline in our well-being. What's more, microstress is baked into our lives. The source is seldom a classic antagonist, such as a demanding client or a jerk boss. Instead, it comes from the people with whom we are closest: our friends, family, and colleagues. The good news is that once you understand microstress, you can fight back. Drawing on fresh research, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon explain the science behind the phenomenon. They also share the secrets of a small set of people who've endured their share of microstress but have still managed to cultivate relationships that enable them to thrive both at work and in life. Compelling interviews with these high achievers bring to life best practices that show you how to build resilience against microstress and ultimately how to find purpose—purpose that helps you break free from this quietly invasive force that's stealing your life.