Managing Stress & Pressure at Work

Managing Stress & Pressure at Work

OBJECTIVES

• Actively identify and reduce stress in themselves and others.
• Use stress management techniques to change the way they think about stress.
• Develop methods to maintain a positive mental outlook.
• Have a positive economic impact on individual and team performance.
• Maximize people interaction performance and motivation at work.
• Improve health and happiness, therefore be more productive.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is designed for any professional, whether it be Managers, Supervisors, Personnel Professionals, Training Professional, Occupational Health Specialists, Health and Safety Professionals or anyone that desires to learn methods to better deal with stress and pressures at work.

COURSE OUTLINE: 

DAY 1

What is Stress and Causes of Stress in our Work

• Focus on the important and valid priorities in work
• Trying to balance work and life are stress causes
• Understand how strategic priorities cause stress in organizations
• Understanding strategic changes that affect stress
• Balancing our work career and personal lives

DAY 2

Positive Stress: An Optimistic, Strategic MIndset

• Recognizing how work strategies cause stress
• Understanding the role of communication in stress management
• Improving your communication skills to manage aggression, stress and conflict from others
• Appreciating stress as a source of low productivity
• Changing your mindset – seeing the positive side of change in the workplace
• Self motivation as a stress reliever for us and others

DAY 3

Managing Stress Levels in Use of Time

• Time management reduces stress in personal work
• Preparing realistic plans and schedules
• Creating an efficient stress minimized management system
• Recognizing your individual approach to work
• Learning to recognize your time stressors

DAY 4

Understanding Stress and Stress Behavior Patterns in Self and Others

• Understanding interaction and its role in stress management
• Identifying cultural issues and diversity affecting stress
• Learning to apply stress relievers to people situations
• Pressure and performance – productive and unproductive levels of pressure
• Stress in the workplace and how the mind works with others’ personalities
• The Inter-relation between behavior types and stress

DAY 5

Dealing with the Stress of Human Change

• What are typical stressors in roles of change
• Recognizing stress and physical reactions to stress
• Identification of change processes and human change
• Recognizing response to and perceptions of change
• Developing a personal change action plan