Preventive Stress Management
8 Hours / 3 Weeks / Mentor Supported
Course Overview:
This course will challenge your thinking and about how you view stressor in your life and in organizations. Stress is inevitable and essential to push individuals and organizations to grow, develop, perform and succeed. This program recognizes that work life is stressful and at times risky. The challenge and opportunity in stressful and changing times is to learn more about ourselves and how we may better respond to a changed world of work and organizational life. Students will learn about stress and its relationship to a healthy lifestyle and productivity. Students will also examine their methods of dealing with stress and their personal stress reactions. Students will be given instruction on practical new coping skills to reduce the negative impact of stress and to how to convert stress into energy. This course offers a historical perspective of stress and provides tools to enable students and the organization to be stronger, healthier and more productive. It is about achievement and health, not achievement or health.
Course Outline:
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Students will define stress, explore the nature of stress in their lives and determine their current stress levels.
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Students will learn that stress is inevitable and an important ingredient for growth, development, and performance of individuals. Students will learn about stress and its relationship to a healthy and productive lifestyle.
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Students will have stress management tools and practice controlling levels of stress
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Students will understand how thinking affects perceptions and reactions to events
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Students will learn and practice reframing their thinking
All necessary materials are included.
System Requirements:
System Requirements:
Internet Connectivity Requirements:
- Cable and DSL internet connections are recommended for the best experience.
Hardware Requirements:
- CPU: 1 GHz or higher
- RAM: 2 GB or higher
- Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher
- Speakers / Headphones
- Microphone (Webinar / Live Online sessions)
Operating System Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows 7 or 10 (Home, Pro)
- Mac OSX 10 or higher.
- Latest Chrome OS
- Latest Linux Distributions
NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.
Web Browser Requirements:
- Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
- Latest Mozilla FireFox
- Latest Microsoft Edge
- Latest Apple Safari
Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):
- Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
- PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
- Courses may require other software that is denoted in the above course outline.