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Leadership Development training
Overview:
Explore strategies for managing stress and minimizing its effects. This program provides a look at the stress cycle and discusses how to intervene at each step in the cycle. It looks at how to achieve balance and gain renewed energy and enthusiasm.
Audience:
Anyone wanting to improve their performance as an employee.
Prerequisites
None.
Course duration:
1 day
Course outline:
1. Identifying your stressors
- What is stress so stressful?
- What stresses you: a self-assessment
- Connecting stress and control issues
2. The stress cycle
- Parts of the stress cycle
- Understanding the role of perception
- Identifying mental responses to stress
- Identifying physical responses to stress
- Preventing burnout: a self-assessment
3. Moods and stress
- Understanding how moods affect stress
- Strategies for minimizing the effects of moods
- Recognizing when to seek professional help
- Dealing with extreme anger
4. Setting boundaries and saying no
- Creating boundaries
- Saying “no” diplomatically
- Delivering your message
- Dealing with people who stress you out
5. Managing stress physically
- Relaxation exercises and redirecting stress
- Connecting nutrition and exercise
- Environmental influences
6. Managing stress mentally
- Mental strategies to combat stress
- Solving problems
- Using humor
- Dealing with people who stress you out
- Balancing your life: determining your optimal stress level
- Having a “no regrets” attitude
