Stress Management Skills

Our 2-day stress management training course will provide you or your staff with practical skills and techniques to deal with stress. We’ll work with you to develop a range of healthy and effective coping strategies, as well as helping you to change your patterns of behaviour in response to stress. We’ll also help you to consider the ways in which you interact with others, and give you a number of tools for reducing the stress levels of those around you or those you manage. How much of a difference would that make to your life?

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Stress Management Skills Training (2 Days)

Overview

In 2009, NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) reported that the cost of impaired workplace performance as a result of stress was £15.1 billion a year. This figure does not include the cost of absenteeism as more than 13 million working days are lost per year as a result of work-related stress, anxiety and depression.

This 2-day Stress Management Skills Training course will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the cognitive and physiological mechanisms underlying stress and help you identify sources of stress and your stress triggers. Most importantly you will leave this course with a healthy toolbox of strategies for coping with or managing your response to stress. The techniques provided are transferable life skills in that they are equally applicable to personal stressors as well as stress in the workplace.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Identify controllable and uncontrollable sources of stress within their work and private life,
• Understand the physiological and cognitive mechanisms underlying stress responses,
• Identify and evaluate their current responses to stress and ways of coping with stress,
• Develop a toolbox of techniques which will enable them to manage stress in a more healthy and effective way,
• Identify and manage organizational stressors more effectively.

Target Audience

The target audience for this course includes Team Leaders, Supervisors, Consultants, Managers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Trainers, Teachers, Coaches, Sales Executives etc. In fact, this course is suitable for anyone who simply wants to improve their ability to deal with and manage stress.
Course Content

Course content includes:

• What is stress ?
  • Definitions and explanations
  • Approaches to understanding and analyzing stress
  • Cognitive and physiological mechanisms
  • Impact of stress
• Sources of stress
  • Life stress audit
  • Organisational stress audit
  • Everyday hassles and uplifts audit
  • Controllables and uncontrollables
• Stress triggers
  • Self-assessment and identification of triggers and responses
  • Changes responses to triggers
  • Techniques to Manage Your State
• Coping with stress
  • Assessment of current approaches to coping
  • Problem-focused coping
  • Emotion-focused coping
  • Developing a healthy toolbox

Cost and Location

Attendance on this 2-day course is available at a cost of £520 + Vat (inc. all materials, lunch and refreshments).

The course is available at one of our luxurious training premises across the UK …

Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire – An 18th Century manor house set in 220 acres in the heart of the Cheshire countryside – within easy reach of Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Preston, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Birmingham, Wrexham and Chester and the counties of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside Staffordshire, Shropshire, West Midlands and Flintshire. Delegates will be able to enjoy the beautiful parkland, woodland walks along with the extensive sporting facilities available.

Carlton House, Westminster, London – This stylish and comfortable venue has been extensively modernised whilst retaining its period character and boasts high quality, comprehensively equipped training rooms ideally suited for the delivery of the company’s growing range of business and personal development focused training courses. Although situated in a desirable, easily accessed location close to Pall Mall, traffic noise is minimal and delegates can experience a sense of comparative tranquility whilst engaging in their learning.
Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.