Stress Management

Course Description

The business environment is more competitive than ever before. As a result, the demands on teams are more challenging. While pressure promotes performance, it can also lead to an imbalance between what people think they can do and what their managers expect them to do. When this happens, people suffer from stress, which can negatively impact both their performance and their health.

It is vital that organisations help their managers work with their teams and the individuals in them to manage and reduce stress. This course teaches managers how to identify, deal with and reduce stress in their teams in order to make them more effective and efficient. Delegates will be led to develop a practical stress management strategy to be implemented on their return to the office.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to

• define stress and its effects on both people and organisations

• evaluate their own personalities and the implications they may have for stress levels in their teams and in themselves

• recognise the symptoms of stress in individuals and teams

• identify the causes of stress

• evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for reducing the causes of stress and coping with stress in a team environment

Target Audience

This course is aimed at managers, supervisors and team leaders. However, in agreement, the course can be delivered in a workshop style to whole teams, as part of a defined team building development programme. Likewise, exercises and role plays can be developed in liaison with the client to reflect specific situations from their own work environment.

Duration

1 day for up to 12 participants