Stress Management

Course: Stress Management

Course objectives
To improve participants' ability to handle stress in their work and personal lives, by lessening the impact of stressors, increasing their resistance to 'negative' stress and developing their skills in areas which impact on their stress levels.

Target audience
Employees (including managers and supervisors) whose stress levels are having an undesirable impact on their work effectiveness and self- confidence.

Course duration
1 full day or 3 x 1/2 days (ideally spaced one week apart).

Outcomes for course participants
On completion of the training participants will be able to:
* Identify the key stressors in their work and personal lives and how they typically deal with those stressors
* Evaluate the effects of stress on their physical, emotional and mental well-being
* Implement strategies that will help them to deal more effectively with the key stressors in their work and personal lives
* Lessen the degree of negative self-talk and irrational beliefs that are affecting their stress levels
* Improve their skills or behaviour in areas such as assertiveness, time management, exercise, diet and balanced lifestyle which can strongly influence their stress levels
* Implement an action plan, enabling them to deal effectively with one or two key areas of stress

Course content overview
* What is stress? (Is it always bad?)
* Your reactions to stress and how it affects you
* Stress: How we interact with the environment
* Stress self-appraisal questionnaire
* Four key links:
  - Stress and time management
  - Stress and assertiveness
  - Stress and negative self-talk/irrational beliefs
  - Stress and lifestyle

Instruction techniques
Lectures, workshops, videos, role playing.

Course presenters
Various.

Course fees
Price on application.

More information
Call Michelle on 02 9739 2325 for more information or to book a course.