Stress Management

The ability to manage stress at home or on the job has become a critical health issue for workers in the modern workplace.

Everyone needs knowledge of what stress and stressors are, how the body responds to ongoing stress factors, and methods for recognizing and reducing our personal stress, to maintain an acceptable health level and quality of work life.

With our extensive knowledge of the different software currently on the market, including all microsoft and adobe applications, ON-TRACK Corporate Training Ltd. has a diverse and flexible schedule that can be customized to your needs – we offer group course (both public and corporate), one-on-one training, and on-site training options.

We also have easily accessible on-line training videos available.

Objectives

This skill-based course addresses these needs with knowledge of what stress is and skills in how to manage it in healthful, effective ways.

Participants will learn to identify stressors in their lives, and develop positive strategies that work to manage ongoing stress and to address the conditions which foster it.

Outline

• Part 1: A Review of the Nature and Effects of Stress
  • Definition and effects (positive and negative stress)
  • Stressors : recognizing them for what they are
  • The Fight-Flight-Freeze "stress response"
  • The biochemistry of emotion and stress
  • Relation between stress and unhealthy eating
  • Three stages of stress response
  • Our personal early warning signs
• Part 2: Beginning to Manage our Stress
  • The first step: Identifying our stressors at home and at work
  • Controllable and non-controllable stressors
  • Setting priorities on stressors
  • Discovering our stress-causing beliefs and self-talk
  • Personality types related to stress vulnerability and strengths
• Part 3: Preventive and Prescriptive Strategies
  • The difference between preventive and prescriptive strategies
  • Building strong stress-avoiding strategies for our lives
  • What to do when stress is already occurring
• Part 4: Negative Copers and Positive Strategies
  • The difference between coping and managing
  • Childhood and adult coping strategies
  • Recognizing and dealing with our addictive behaviours
  • Attitude changes: from negative and defiant to positive
  • The importance of perception and paradigm shifts
  • Creating resourceful positive strategies for managing stress
• Part 5: Relaxation Techniques
  • The relaxation response
  • Deep breathing techniques
  • Body-tripping
  • Visualizing techniques
  • Meditation, prayer and yoga
  • Using tapes and aromas
  • The benison of warm water
• Part 6: A Review of Time Management
  • Identifying current time management habits
  • Tips and techniques for managing our stress as we manage our time
• Part 7: Advanced Positive Strategies
  • Creating and conserving positive energy and motivation under stress
  • Being fit to live: nutrition, sleep and exercise
  • Communication skills which reduce conflict and stress
  • Emotional Intelligence: five key strategies
  • Managing our thinking: changing roof chatter to usable messages
  • Recognizing and accepting our personal power
  • Social and professional networks
• Personal Action Plan for Stress Management
• Course Closure and Evaluation