Managing Stress

Course duration – 1 day

”Don’t let stress affect your decisions & performance.”

Business scenario

In today’s demanding and fast moving business environment, the ability to manage pressure and deal with stress constructively is critical. More working days are lost owing to “stress” than to any other single cause. This programme teaches a range of strategies and techniques to help people prioritise the demands they face and convert feeling of stress into positive energy.

Who will benefit?

Anyone who works in a role they experience as stretching and demanding; individuals who wish to build their personal skillset by recognising how to pro-actively manage stressful situation.

Course objectives

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Differentiate between stress and stretch
• Recognise where they personally could be vulnerable to stress and identify their own symptoms and early warning signs
• Use pre-emptive stress-prevention techniques
• Convert potentially damaging reactions to stressful situations into pro-active and positive response

Course content

• Recognise the difference between potentially harmful stress and healthy challenge
• Identify what stress is for themselves individually; how to Recognise what situations they are likely to experience as personally stressful
• Identify the range of stress symptoms – physical, behavioural and mental/emotional – which can affect themselves and others
• Build strategies for taking control, pre-empting potentially stressful situations, managing pressure, tough demands and challenging schedules pro-actively
• Develop a personal set of positive techniques for managing and reducing stress symptoms when they experience them.

Course features

Through discussion and participation, you will identify both the source and the effects of stress on you and your life. Exercises and activities will encourage you to apply the techniques discussed to your own situations.