Workwise: Manage Your Stress | Stress Management | Stress Management Techniques!

No-one is free from stress!

One of the greatest inhibitors of personal productivity is unmanaged stress. In South Africa environmental stress factors are exceptionally high, making it essential for organisations and individuals to learn to manage stress effectively. Managing stress reduces time away from work; staff turnover; errors and accidents in the workplace. It enhances job satisfaction and increases productivity.

Manage Your Stress, defines stress; highlights its effects on people; details instructions for coping with it, and reveals how stress can be put to positive use.

The topics addressed include:

• Understanding stress in stages
• Sources of stress
• Symptoms of stress
• Reactive coping mechanisms
• Guidelines for lifestyle change
• Proactive and productive coping mechanisms
• Stress inoculation
• Personal action planning

Outcomes

Learners will be able to:

• Recognise stress in stages
• Identify sources of stress
• Identify and understand different symptoms of stress
• Recognise and minimise the use of reactive/syntoxic coping mechanisms
• Demonstrate and use proactive/catatoxic stress management techniques, such as autogenic training, meditation, visualisation and self-talk
• Understand and use proactive stress management techniques
• Plan how to manage different types of stress proactively and effectively

Requirements

Learners receive:
A workbook containing readings to develop concept awareness, understanding and skill competence; an audio-tape for post-workshop application.

Duration:
2 Days

Certification:
A Workwise certificate of attendance on completion of the programme.