Course Description
Overview
Stress at work can leave you feeling overwhelmed and out of control. It’s disabling — capable of diminishing your drive and decreasing your productivity.
If you want to succeed on the job, it’s vital that you learn to cope with high stress levels. This online training course can help by exploring one of the chief causes of workplace stress, change, and how we respond to it. Do you readily embrace change as part of life or do you resist it at every turn and add to your stress?
Instructor-led and highly interactive, this virtual workshop shows you how to protect yourself from stress and its damaging effects. Through self-awareness, proven strategies and useful tools, you’ll discover techniques to reduce stress and to live your work experience in a positive way.
Agenda
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Program time: 3 hours
Session 1: Managing the Stress of Change
Internal vs external change and how each can impact employees
Techniques for finding motivation in times of change
Using strategies like knowledge and support to better prepare for change.
How to communicate change in uncomfortable situations.
Session 2: Controlling Reactions
Identify areas that are within your area of concern, area of impact and center of control
Tactics for communicating urgency during intense conditions
Tips for giving and receiving criticism under pressure
Reducing tension by addressing others with assurance and accountability
Techniques for addressing difficult situations with poise and restraint
Session 3: Cultivating the Right Outlook
Steps for taking a potentially negative situation and transforming it
Overcoming procrastination to increase focus and overall success
Ways to alter your perspectives and perceptions for improved outcomes
Techniques for developing personal effectiveness and personal hardiness
Define the success of a stressful incident