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How to Manage Stress in the Workplace

In today’s demanding workplace, responding appropriately and effectively in stress-charged situations is nothing short of an absolute survival skill. Make sure you don’t fall short when it counts the most – when the pressure’s on full steam!

Program Description:

Don’t let stress control you — take back your life with this powerful workshop!

Is stress ruining your life?
You work hard. You work long hours and your list of things to get done just keeps getting longer and longer. You go home tired and you wake up tired. You’re beginning to forget simple things – like lunch and dinner or your spouse’s birthday. Then there’s the crushing cloud of gloom that you can’t stay out from under.

What is this? STRESS. And you’re not alone. More and more Americans are feeling the pressure to do more with fewer resources and less time. We have to get things out faster and better than ever before. You have 24 hours in your day – but 30 hours worth of work! When do you sleep? Eat? Just sit down and breathe?

Transform your stress and stop burnout before it begins

If so, you’re in good company – and you’re also reading something that may be of critical importance. Critical because if you leave stress untreated it can do serious emotional, psychological, and physical damage to you and to those closest to you. The good news is, stress can be isolated … arrested … defeated! That’s what this life-changing workshop is all about – giving you the tools and techniques you need to overcome the debilitating impact of stress-induced tension, trauma, and burnout.

Can you afford to take a day out of the office – can you afford NOT to?

Anxiety, depression, fatigue, anger … all the factors that contribute to stress … are rapidly replacing the cold as the “common” ailment. Can a one-day workshop really cure what ails you? Absolutely! Thousands can attest to the power of the methods and techniques you’ll be taught – techniques to restore your energy, revitalize your creativity, reclaim the relationships and regard you may have lost to stress.

Don’t wait! This workshop fills up fast!



What You'll Learn:

  1. How to recognize the danger signals of overstress
  2. How to avoid stressful “double-bind” situations
  3. How to control your anger and maintain your composure in confrontations with others
  4. The steps for effective decision-making when the “heat’s on”
  5. How to handle the two common personality traits that lead to undue stress – perfectionism and procrastination
  6. How to use your support systems to the best advantage (and how to build new ones)
  7. The high price of high achievement – dealing with “achievement anxiety”
  8. Shifting sands – how to keep your balance when your world is changing
  9. How to create a less stressful work environment
  10. Three easy-to-use techniques for focusing your concentration and creativity
  11. Developing a real-world approach to deadlines
  12. How to avoid the most common temperament pitfalls that can sabotage your success
  13. The manager’s impact on stress in the work environment
  14. 38 relaxation techniques that work
  15. How to recognize and defuse the early signs of stress-induced burnout
  16. How to build an energy level that sets you apart
  17. How to handle frustration, anger, and anxiety calmly
  18. How to snap yourself out of a bad mood instantly
  19. Quick “energy builders” you can do right at your desk
  20. Enjoy your life more, both at work and at home – find fun in both roles!


Who Should Attend?
If you answer “yes” to even one of these questions, chances are you could use some help. Learn a system for fighting back!

  • Do you often wake up tired?
  • Do you feel like you carry more than your share of the load?
  • Do you occasionally feel overwhelmed when asked to take on added responsibility?
  • Do you feel like everyone is depending on you?
  • Do you feel like you are other people’s “overflow person,” but that you have no one to pass your overload to?
  • Are all your projects important, so it’s difficult to prioritize?
  • Do you find your weekends filling up with work?
  • Do your high quality standards make it difficult for you to let go?


Workshop Agenda:

Understand exactly how stress gains a foothold in your life

  • Test your responses to the most common stress-promoting situations.
  • Identify the “stress potential” in your life as a businesswoman … a wife … a mother.
  • What ingredients must be present for stress to do long-term damage?
  • Stress? Anxiety? Fatigue? What’s the difference? Does it really matter?
  • Discover what makes stress contagious – how you catch it and how you can give it to others.
  • Spot the places stress effectively “corners” you – is there an escape?
  • Learn to create conditions in which long- term tension cannot exist.

Identify and neutralize the symptoms of tension-induced stress

  • Learn to recognize your body’s warning signals.
  • “Burnout” doesn’t start with a blaze but with a spark! Take home a checklist.
  • Learn how to determine when “normal” irritability and impatience become “stress- messed”!
  • Learn the emotional and behavioral characteristics that identify your stress level, and the steps to reduce it.
  • When and where do stress indicators occur? Spotting the pattern is the first step in identifying the enemy.
  • Have your eating and sleeping habits changed subtly? Dramatically? Are they promoting a stress-free lifestyle?
  • How to trace a symptom to its source – and eliminate it!

When are you most vulnerable to chronic stress producers? How can you change it?

  • Rate your “life event” stresses. Review and reduce their impact.
  • By knowing your personality type you can actually forecast stress attacks.
  • Are other personalities your problem? Gain insights into those whose “self views” initiate stress in your life.
  • Test your reactions to typical and not so typical life hassles. Are you setting yourself up for stressful situations?
  • Your “stress limits” are real and readable – learn those limits and live within them.
  • Is the problem directly connected to your stressful reaction? You’ll be surprised how often it may not be.
  • Each improper response adds a brick to the wall of stress you build. Gain the tools you need to tear it down brick by brick.

Stress on the job: the great American career killer

  • Discover the critical keys to making sound decisions, even under intense pressure.
  • Is there a “perfectionist” working in your office? Behind your desk? You can change that … today!
  • Too much task left after time has run out? These unique time-management techniques add hours to your day.
  • Learn essential delegation techniques that “clone” you and multiply your effectiveness.
  • Do they ask too much of you? Learn the principles that answer this question.
  • Do you confuse the word agreeable with the word dependable? The results can be disastrous.
  • How to use the stress management strategy of “coping” on and off the job.

Stress management techniques and strategies equip you with life-enriching methods of facing future pressures

  • Stress can actually work for you if you learn to rechannel its energy-draining power.
  • Learn how to set up impenetrable defenses against advancing stressors.
  • Discover the value of “support system” and how it counteracts stress.
  • Establish stress-free relationships.
  • The stress-packed situations that used to catch you by surprise can be familiar foes through “role-playing.”
  • Know when to call “time out” – and how to use it when you get it.

Combating stress through life re-evaluation and goal assessment

  • Ever analyzed your stressors to see why they have such power? The experience can make them powerless.
  • Ask the 3 questions that put stressful situations in the past … forever.
  • Implement a “Stress Budget” that limits the energy you’re allowed to spend on pressure-prone activities.
  • Discover the “core direction” to your life that puts potential stress into perspective.
  • What is the aim of your life? If you don’t know, take the critical first step toward finding out.
  • Learn to channel stress through your new “self-concept filter” and remove its harmful effects.




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