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Stress Management Tools, Techniques & Best Practices

In today's complex and rapidly changing working environment all professionals face stress, often caused by difficult relationships, challenging situations or pressure of work. In this course you learn to view stress positively, build short-term coping mechanisms, align your strengths and create greater balance in your life.

The Training Course Will Highlight ?

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.

Training Objective

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

Target Audience

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

Training Methods

Daily Agenda

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

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