Working with Stress - One Day Seminar

Aims And Objectives

To learn how to recognise and understand stress symptoms, how to reduce and avoid them and how to use healthy stress to enhance performance.

Increased work effectiveness for individuals through better understanding of how to prevent and decrease stress.

A personalised workbook with exercises, individual notes and a concise personal action plan to ensure that the skills learnt on this course will be successfully applied in the workplace.

The opportunity to gain a widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate.

Content

Self awareness: understanding better how you react to stress and how prone to stress you are.

What does stress mean: demands; constraints; supports and pressures.

The stress balance: identify the balance between demands on us and our perceived ability to cope; de-stress.

The stress response: how our bodies naturally react to stress; working with the outcome.

Pressure and performance: how stress affects performance levels; checking for signs of too much or too little stress.

Personal attitude: how to improve performance through positive mental attitude.

Stress at work.

Time management: prioritising; effective use of time; managing tasks; relaxation; communication; activities and interests.

Developing a personal action plan.