Stress Management – “The Mental Challenge”

Length:	½ Day
Audience:	General

Benefits:

This course uses the Coping & Stress Profile® to focus on coping resources as the most effective and consistent response to stressors identified in four life areas – work, personal, family, couple. Traditional stress management focuses primarily on using personal coping resources such as exercise, nutrition, and building self-esteem to deal with stress – and all are very important. Take your stress management abilities in these challenging times to the next level by attending this course.

Objectives:

• Define stress and recognize common stress factors at work (in general and in your specific work environment)
• Understand the physical reaction to fear (the fight or flight system)
• Recognize physical, emotional, and mental reactions to unmanaged stress
• Eliminate common misconceptions about stress
• Use the Coping & Stress Profile^® (Personal) to:
  • Identify your current level of stress and typical manner of handling it
  • Reveal your preferences for being alone vs. being with others (closeness)
  • Reveal how well they deal with change (flexibility)
• Use the personal Coping & Stress Profile^® (At Work) to:
  • Identify your current work stressors and level of work satisfaction
  • Reveal your preferences for resolving stressful situations (problem solving)
  • Reveal how well they communicate with others at work
• After this workshop, use the Coping & Stress Profile^® (Couples & Family) to:
  • Compare how they use the 4 coping mechanisms (problem solving, communication, flexibility, and closeness) differently at work and in your personal life
  • Adapt successful coping mechanisms used at home to work and vice versa.
  • Develop new coping resources and stress-management skills
• Learn immediate short-term coping mechanisms, i.e. effective ways to handle daily stress
• Identify long-term coping mechanisms, i.e. effective, behavior modification and skills to handle daily stress
• Identify skills that require additional training in these areas:
  • Problem solving
  • Interpersonal communication (understanding how they communicate & adapting to communicate more effectively with others who don’t think or communicate as they do)
  • Building collaboration and cohesion at work
  • Change Management (leading and adapting to change, increasing personal flexibility)
  • Time Management, project-planning skills (including setting goals, priorities, work plans, etc.)