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Program Description |
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Title |
D – Stress Tactics |
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Description |
Participants
will be able to identify the real sources of stress in their
lives, develop coping mechanisms and techniques for achieving
positive mental habits. Recognise the warning signs of stress and
develop strategies for healthy coping compatible with their
lifestyles. |
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Objectives |
On completion
participants should be able to identify:
- Sources of
stress in your life
- Your own and
others coping mechanism
- Functional and
dysfunctional stress
- A range of
techniques for achieving positive mental habits
- Warning signs in
yourself and others of dysfunctional stress
- Strategies for
healthy coping compatibility with lifestyle
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Key
Content |
- Recognise and
acknowledge present and potential effects of stress
- Decide whether
you can and are willing to do something about the stress
- Positive actions
not reactions to stress
- Understanding
work stress
- Determine where
you are on the stress scale
- The importance
of balance
- Determine which
coping strategies work for you
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Audience |
- Employees not
sure how to recognise the effects of stress and what to do
about it.
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Attendees |
A maximum of 16
participants is recommended
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Delivery Style |
Syndicate group
work, brainstorming, and group discussions.
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Duration |
1 day subject to
client specific requirement.
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Prerequisites |
A willingness to
learn a new way of understanding stress and coping with it
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Pre-work |
Consider
situations which are causing stress in your life and why.
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Resources |
- Room large
enough to accommodate up to 16 people in small clusters of
tables or horseshoe shape of chairs.
- Overhead
projector, whiteboard and flipchart.
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