Staff Development >> Stress Awareness
Overview
This course is designed to assist attendees to identify stress in both themselves and others, and to develop and utilise effective techniques for stress avoidance. We will focus on short-term coping strategies and long-term resilience.
Objectives
- Understand the causes of stress
- Understand the differences between stress and pressure
- Identify different responses to pressure/stress
- Understand the short term and long term responses to stress
- How stress affects the workplace
- Recognise what can be done about stress
- Coping mechanisms
- Work-life-balance
- Use a personal tool kit to manage pressure and stress
Course overview
Identifying stress
- The causes of stress
- The differences between stress and pressure
- Symptoms of stress
- Recognising stress
The effects of stress
- Short-term, and long-term responses to stress
- physical
- emotional
- behavioural
- The effects on individuals, teams and service delivery
What can be done about stress?
- Tackling stress
- Understanding your ‘triggers’
- Work-related stress
- Work-life balance
- Coping-mechanisms to manage stress
At the end of the course you will have the opportunity to complete a personalised action plan