Are demanding deadlines, multiple priorities, family pressures or an overwhelming workload influencing your organization’s employees? Stress is one of the biggest energy drainers, productivity killers and relationship destroyers there is. This enlightening training course was developed to help your employees pinpoint personal stressors, evaluate priorities, realistically access limits, teach assertiveness skills and help them develop a stress-reducing program.

By the end of this course, delegates will learn how to:

• Recognize existing and potential stressors and manage them positively
• Develop and apply short–term coping mechanisms
• Utilize stress management techniques to gain greater control
• Build your mental resilience to enhance your performance
• Adopt a positive attitude to stress to achieve balance in your life
• Find creative stress solutions
• How to balance the multiple demands of career, family and personal life
• How to rethink priorities so they’re in control of each day
• How to nurture themselves without feeling self-indulgent
• How to keep their energy level high, concentration sharp and productivity up
• How to become a more productive employee by reducing their stress levels
• Understand that stress is an unavoidable part of everybody’s life
• Recognize the symptoms that tell you when you have chronic stress overload
• Change the situations and actions that can be changed
• Deal better with situations and actions that can’t be changed

Executives, Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Superintendents, Financial Officers and Controllers, Process Managers, Strategic Planning Managers, Key Personnel, Champions, Officers, Engineers, Administrative Staff

Understanding the Body’s Response to Stress

• Understanding the stages of stress
• The mind-body connection: Understanding the relationship between stress and health
• When stress reaches the point of diminishing returns: Understanding the fine line between good stress and bad stress
• How personality type and attitude relate to stress
• Stress reduction
• How blow-ups can lead to burnout: Understanding the link between anger and stress
• Relighting the fire: Steps for regaining enthusiasm, drive and confidence when chronic stress leads to burnout

The Special Stressors

• Getting to the heart of the self-esteem issues that contribute to stress
• How to avoid the damaging effects of stress that come with “success”
• How to counteract the hidden sources of stress
• Tips for reducing everyday stress
• How to stop perfectionism from becoming pressure
• How to eliminate the victim-type thinking that reinforces a stress cycle
• How to use positive pep talks to drive away the negative thinking and anxiety that compound stress
• Overcoming the mistaken notion that worrying means showing caring and concern
• How to counteract the components of faulty thinking

Identifying the Causes of Stress

• A checklist for assessing stress hot spots
• Recognizing the special stresses of being a working parent
• 10 questions to assess priorities
• How to cope with the situations that can’t be changed
• Confronting burnout and signs

Stress Recovery Tools and Techniques

• The number one rule for a stress management program to be effective
• How to short-circuit tension and pressure
• Quick, energizing techniques to get through high-stress periods
• Planning ahead and dealing with difficult times
• Proven relaxation techniques that provide long-lasting relief from stress
• Food for the soul: A dozen ways to nurture yourself when no one else will
• Mental tricks for making it through the daily stressors in your life
• How to find refuge from stress
• Why having a strong support system is vital to any stress recovery program
• How eating habits affect stress levels
• Quick pick-me-up exercises that anyone can fit into a schedule

How to Balance Multiple Roles and Responsibilities

• Concrete steps you can take to smooth the transition from work to home
• Time management techniques designed to de-stress schedules that are in distress
• Delegating doesn’t mean declaring defeat: How to get it all done
• Solutions for coping with the most common causes of stress
• How taking care of yourself first actually helps take care of others better
• The cardinal rules of parenting to take the pressure off of yourself and your children
• How practicing “selective” insensitivity can actually improve personal relationships
• Guidelines for keeping your expectations realistic

How to Keep the Stress from Others’ Away

• Assertive communication techniques for getting others to solve their own problems
• How to defuse the anger and stress that sabotages intimate relationships
• How to offer support when tragedy strikes
• Ways to help your family members, friends and co-workers manage their stress more effectively
• Techniques for overcoming the common communication pitfalls that create stress in relationships
• How to disarm and redirect the angry attacks of others rather than combat them

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.