Practical Approaches to Handling Pressure

A 1-day in-house training course for all individuals

 View in-house course details here

Introduction

This course is suitable for employees at all levels in organisations
who want to increase their understanding of stress and its effects,
and to develop strategies to enable them to cope with stress
related issues.

The topics covered include well-being, the work-life balance and
individual factors such as perception, which affect how we cope
with excessive pressure.

Key benefits of the course:

• Enables participants to understand what is meant by stress as opposed to healthy pressure
• Encourages recognition of the signs of stress at an early stage
• Provides an opportunity to assess well-being and the work-life balance
• Participants can identify their main sources of stress
• Points out the importance of perception and other individual factors
• Identifies a variety of coping strategies that can be used to deal with stress-related issues
• Participants can put together a personal action plan based upon the material covered during the course

Participants learn to:

• Distinguish between pressure and stress
• Recognise the signs of stress 
• Assess their well-being and work-life balance
• Identify the main sources of stress
• Understand the importance of individual factors such as perception
• Apply relevant coping strategies
• Put together a personal action plan to address sources of stress

Contents

Section 1: What is Stress?

• Definition
• Human function curve
• How to recognise signs of stress

Section 2: Personal well-being and the work-life balance

• Well-being inventory
• How to increase feelings of well-being
• Activities to ensure a rounded lifestyle

Section 3: Sources of stress at work and at home

• Identification of pressure points
• The importance of control
• How relevant support can help

Section 4: The effects of individual factors

• The way we look at life
• Challenging limiting beliefs
• The rules we live by

Section 5: Some useful coping strategies

• Discussion of a variety of practical strategies

Section 6: Your action plan

• Identification of a source of pressure and application of
  strategies to deal with it
• An opportunity to apply what has been covered in the
  course

Course Format & Pricing

• Duration: 1 day
• Number of participants: 6-12
• £975 + VAT
  

Please contact Alastair Taylor on 0131 476 5027 or email us using our contact us page for further details.