UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING STRESS FOR GREATER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Live-Online Training: N 123,625
Classroom Training: N 182,750
3 - 4 participants: 5% discount
5 or more participants: 10% discount

(Available also for Customised Training by Duration, Venue & Fee) 

Programme Objectives

The modern workplace is highly challenging and demanding. The business environment is described as VUCA; Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. Employees seem to struggle to adapt and thrive in the VUCA business environment.

A 2001 study conducted for Capital magazine showed that 85 per cent of managers experienced stress in their professional lives, and 86 per cent of these felt that stress had increased in recent years.

Ever-higher demands on performance and results, growing time pressure, constant change, “zero defects,” and the end of lifetime employment put employees in a state of never-ending stress with severe consequences.

Can people learn to manage their stress to limit the risks?

During this two day training programme, managers and employees will learn to: spot the signs of stress, control the manifestations of stress, act on the problem, and change their mindset. They will also know that:

• • Stress is a phenomenon that helps people cope with difficult situations. As such, it must not be seen as purely negative.
  • Stress becomes destructive only when it exceeds a certain threshold.
  • People can improve their resistance to stress by learning to interpret situations differently and maintaining a healthy lifestyle
  • Stress management is a skill that can benefit individuals and the organization.

Course Contents

DAY ONE

A Business Case for Stress Management

• Corporate Vision and Strategy
• Processes and Operational Excellence
• Customer Satisfaction
• Corporate Culture
• Overall Corporate Performance

An Overview of Stress Management

• Defining Stress Management
• Types of Stress
• Distress
• Eustress
• Pressure and Stress?       
• Positive and Negative Pressure
• Stressors
• Internal
• External
• Cognitive Symptoms
• Emotional Symptoms
• Physical Symptoms: Effects of Stress on Health.
• Behavioral Symptoms.
• Sources and Causes of Workplace Stress.

The Relevant Four Qs

• Emotional Quotient
• Intelligent Quotient
• Social Quotient
• Adversity Quotient

DAY TWO

Stress Management Guiding Principles

• Physical Aspects of Stress Management
• Environmental Aspects of Stress Management
• Cognitive Aspects of Stress Management
• Social Aspects of Stress Management
• Psychological Aspects of Stress Management

Self-Management for Effective Stress Management

• Self-Management as Time Management
• Prioritization Matrix
• Become an organized person
• Become Assertive: “Learn to say NO.”
• Manage Conflicts
• Self-Motivation

Stress Management Strategies

• Unhealthy ways of coping with pressure.
• The Healthier Way to Manage Pressure
• Strategy 1:  Altering the situation
• Strategy 2:  Avoiding unnecessary stress
• Strategy 3:   Adapting to the stressor
• Strategy 4:   Accepting the things you can’t change
• Strategy 5:   Adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Habits Round Up

• Habits to change in the way we Work?
• Habits to change the way we think?
• Habits to change in the way we Relate?