Stress Management - Thriving on Pressure, Managing Stress Positively

This course is designed to help participants identify the negative symptoms of stress and learn how to manage stress proactively to improve performance, in themselves and others.

• Learn how managers and individuals can manage stress effectively at work in order to improve performance
• Appreciate the effect of goal planning, prioritising and managing time more effectively
• Identify ways of improving team performance by managing stress

• Skill assessment instruments
• Stress, What is stress?
• Is some stress actually beneficial
• Identifying the causes of stress
• Recognising the signs of stress

• Stress in Organisations
• The nature of unhealthy stress at work
• The impact of stress on the team

• Recognising the signs of stress
• Responding to change

• Eliminating Stressors (in depth)
• Physiological
• Psychological
• Setting priorities and work goals for others: the key elements Coaching techniques

• Skills for achieving a personal balance at work, coping with stress.
• Managing priorities and demands on your time
• Communication skills to diffuse upsets and conflict

• Developing a preventative rather than a remedial approach to team problems
• Action planning

This course will contain activities and a case study

Managers and Supervisors who want to improve their understanding and management of stress