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Dealing with Stress: Managing Pressures and Preventing Harmful Stress
Learn how to manage pressures and avoid harmful stress. This course provides strategies for dealing with stress, understanding its complexities, and promoting well-being in the workplace.
Created By Dr Neil Thompson
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- Understand the key difference between pressure and stress, and how to manage both effectively.
- Appreciate the vital role of support in managing stress, and recognize when you and others need help.
- Gain a deeper understanding of stress and the harm it can cause to your well-being and performance.
- Discover a range of practical strategies to manage pressures and prevent stress from becoming overwhelming.
Requirements
There are no specific prerequisites for this course. It is suitable for all employees looking to better manage stress.
Description
Welcome to the Dealing with Stress course, designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of stress and offer practical strategies for managing it. Written and presented by Dr. Neil Thompson, this course addresses the complexities of stress and its effects, helping you navigate its challenges effectively. The course is equivalent to a full day of continuous professional development and is ideal for both staff and managers in various organizational settings.
In this course, Dr. Thompson offers two video presentations: one focusing on understanding stress and the other on tackling the stress challenge. These videos provide valuable insights into how stress develops and the steps you can take to prevent it from becoming harmful.
This course is built to provide a solid foundation for all employees, helping them understand stress and how to keep pressures within manageable limits. If you are a manager, it is recommended that you take this course first before proceeding to the Managing Stress course, which is specifically designed to help managers handle their responsibilities regarding stress.
Unlike many other courses that provide oversimplified approaches, this course takes a deeper, more nuanced look at stress. Dr. Thompson provides the tools and knowledge you need to deal with stress confidently, promoting a constructive and balanced approach to managing pressures in the workplace.
Who This Course Is For:
- Anyone looking to manage stress and keep their pressures within healthy limits.
- Employees who want to understand stress and learn practical strategies to prevent harmful stress in their personal and professional lives.
- Individuals who want to help colleagues by fostering a stress-aware and supportive work environment.
Course content
1. Promo
2. Why Dealing with Stress?
3. Module Companion E-book
1. Lesson 1.1 - Making sense of stress
2. Lesson 1.2 - Pressure and stress 1
3. Lesson 1.3 - Pressure and stress 2
1. Lesson 2.1 - The three dimensions of stress
2. Lesson 2.2 - Coping
3. Lesson 2.3 - Support
Lesson 3.1: The costs of stress
Lesson 3.2: The individual, the team and the organisation
Lesson 3.3: Understanding stress: review
Lesson 4.1: Managing pressure, preventing stress
Lesson 4.2: The causes of stress: pressure revisited
Lesson 4.3: Expectations and control
Lesson 5.1: Keeping pressures manageable
Lesson 5.2: Useful strategies
Lesson 5.3: Self-care
Lesson 6.1: Avoiding the stress cycle
Lesson 6.2: Self-awareness
Lesson 6.3: Organisational awareness
1. Concluding video
2. Bonus video - Neil's approach to Stress
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Instructor
Dr. Neil Thompson is an award-winning author and educator with a wealth of experience in expressing complex ideas clearly and accessibly without oversimplifying them. Known for his clear explanations and calm, patient teaching style, he has earned acclaim both as an online tutor and a conference speaker worldwide.
Based in Wales, Dr. Thompson is an independent professional who also serves as a visiting professor at the Open University and Wrexham University in the UK. His extensive publishing record includes over 200 publications, with more than 40 books, several of which have become bestsellers. His insights have been shared at conferences across the UK, Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia.
Dr. Thompson is a Chartered Manager and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He is also a Fellow of teh Learned Society of Wales, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Higher Education Academy, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is a member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement. His areas of expertise encompass leadership; well-being; equality and diversity; conflict management; stress; loss, grief, and trauma; and reflective practice. His online Academy offers Chartered Management Institute qualifications in leadership.
As a seasoned speaker, consultant, and facilitator, Dr. Thompson is highly sought after for his expertise in personal and professional development. He is also associated with Vigoroom, an advanced employee wellness platform promoting healthier and more productive workplaces. In association with Vigoroom, he offers an online Centre of Excellence for leaders of all kinds
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