Handling Stress Positively

Product Overview

In this workbook students explore their optimum level of pressure and how personality, attitudes and circumstances can lead to excessive stress. Students look at ways of reducing or limiting stress and focus on techniques they can use, such as maintaining a balance in life, coping with change, handling people assertively and considering how to look after themselves. Learning Areas:

  • Exploring optimum pressure levels
  • How personality, attitudes and circumstances can lead to excessive stress
  • Techniques for limiting or reducing stress
  • Maintaining a balance, coping with change
  • Handling people assertively
  • Looking after yourself

Target Audience

  • Newly appointed team leaders or supervisors
  • Anybody wanting to develop a particular management skill

These materials are designed to develop and update skills of potential, newly appointed and experienced supervisors, team leaders and managers, offering a choice of flexible, work based materials to improve individual and organisational performance.

Objectives

  • Explain the effect stress has on performance
  • Identify your own optimum level of stress
  • Explain which of your own behaviour patterns may lead to excessive stress
  • Explain some common and powerful causes of stress
  • Describe and use a range of techniques for managing and coping with pressure
  • Begin to construct a strategy using selected techniques, for handling pressure and limiting stress
Nominal Learning Hours Page Numbers
 9 Hours  56

List Of Contents

What stress means A model of three levels 8
The appropriate level of pressure, Our definition
Finding your optimum level
Susceptibility to stress
Stress and you
Personality and stress
Spotting the signs of stress
Health matters
Bringing some strands together 17
Your attitude to stress
Planning your approach to stress management
Ten points for action Managing pressure; Checking the balance 25
Seeing the picture
The questions to ask
Coping with change
The points to consider
Handling pressure from people assertively
Lifestyle issues
Relaxation, Exercise, Diet
The use of props
Comment on activities
Action plan

Price/Cost Options

This workbook as an off the shelf product is priced at £28.50. Discounts available on quantity. Any adapted or customised version will be POA.