Stress handling

OBJECTIVES OF THE SEMINAR

• Teach participants to eliminate negative stress and use positive stress as a stimulator to achieve a more sane, creative, and productive behaviour
• Provide analytical tools to help them identify the principal sources of stress
• Help them identify their own stress level and the factors leading to it
• Help them recognise their emotions and reactions in stressful situations
• Help them overcome the main causes of stress and fatigue
• Help them make effective use of their energy potential
• Help them eliminate obstacles preventing their task to be fulfilled in a serene manner
• Assist them in mastering their environment rather than being dominated by it
• Learn to determine priorities and to concentrate on things that really matter
• Help them to organise and manage their time better
• Learn to remain calm under all circumstances

PROGRAM OF THE SEMINAR

• The definition and origins of stress
• Stress mechanisms
• Stress, friend or enemy : distinction between positive and negative stress
• Manage stress, manage one’s life
• Stress symptoms
• Alarm signals for stress
• The importance of self-knowledge
• Individual test
• Auto-diagnostic of stress level
• Identify what causes our stress
• Stress handling in practice
• How to develop better self-control
• How to manage daily stress in practice
• Breathing and relaxation exercises that can be performed on the work floor
• The importance of social support
• The link between professional and personal life
• Improving personal organisation skills
• Adequate time management
• Defining personal priorities
• Differentiate what is important from what is not
• Distinguish major from minor issues
• Evaluate a degree of urgency
• Differentiate active from reactive tasks
• Handling personal energy and making the most our best moments
• Assertiveness 
• Concept of assertiveness
• Characteristics of an assertive person
• Individual test to determine our personal level of assertiveness
• How to become assertive
• Groundrules for effective stress handling
• Pitfalls to avoid
• How to avoid falling into old habits
• Summary and conclusion