Stress Management Training for Peak Productivity
Ideal Attendees
- Managers.
- Professionals who are in high pressure or high exposure roles.
- Professionals who work in environments where expectations are high and resources to meet them are scarce.
- Professionals who work in environments and industries where there are inherent frustrations.
- Professionals who work with customers or the public.
- Professionals who need to effectively control their emotions to be successful.
- Service professionals, sales professionals, and customer service representatives.
Course Objectives
- Understand that stress is how we react to external situations.
- Grasp the personal and professional costs of stress.
- Gain the motivation to make changes.
- Enhance emotional control.
- Eliminate distractions.
- Deal with negative emotions in a healthy manner.
- Maintain focus on the work.
- Gain perspective on what’s really important.
- Expend energy only on the things that are controllable.
- Assume personal responsibility for bothersome situations.
- Don’t fight against reality.
- Get control of the things that are dwelled on.
- Become mentally "tougher" by learning to minimize the habit of internalizing situations and taking things personally.
- Learn skills to stop dwelling on counterproductive situations.
Course Outline
- Assess what your current reactions and stress levels are costing you.
- Response mechanisms
- Developing better responses for various situations
- Create a quick intervention technique to utilize when you feel yourself starting to "lose" it..
- The current reality
- Seeing it the way that it is.
- How not to fight it.
- The four choices to take responsibility for it.
- Stop being bothered by those around you-
- The theory of separate realities.
- The theory of innocence.
- What you need to do to get frustrations out of your system and not chronically hold onto them.
- The two options for dealing with negative thoughts.
- How to melt "mental snowballs" and the habit of blowing things out of proportion and making them worse then they really are.
- Countering cognitive distortions with rational thinking.
- Worry antidotes to help defuse the power worry can have over performance.
- How to focus on what is going well.
- Step by step how to choose the best emotion.
- Detach from harmful obsessions.
- How to let comments and other people's reactions roll off your back.
- Minimizing "psycho sclerosis"-a hardening of the attitudes
- Developing a personal action plan to include writing out a commitments/action page.