COURSE CONTENT
Introduction
- A concept will to be introduced with the purpose of getting everyone on the common ground for learning.
Module 1.
Understanding STRESS
- An analysis of stress
- An overview of how and why we try to eliminate it and manage it
- Identifying the stress producers and our responses
Exercise: A 5-Question exercise to focus the participants’ attention to the stress symptoms in the context of their reality; at work and at home.
How Stress Are YOU?
Assessment Tool: The PERSONAL STRESS INVENTORY
Analysis, discussion and learning from the results
Module 2: What is Stress Management?
- Identifying the Symptoms
- Stress Situations
Exercise: A 5-Question learning exercise to reveal what stress the participants had recently, how they responded to it, what happened consequently and how they could have responded differently to manage it.
Our Stress Environments
Exercise: A Concise Index of Environmental Stress Analysis, discussion and learning from the results
On the JOB
Analysis
Going to the Source (Root-Causes)
Introduction: The 7-Point Weekly Monitor (A method in charting of participants’ stress level and plot them on the graph provided.)
Understanding How to Analyze of the Graph
Module 3: Stress STRATEGIES @ Work
The participants will be guided by our facilitator and learn to use the AAA Action Plan worksheet to map out their personalized strategies.
We’ll help them through the Alter-Avoid-Accept (AAA) process.
Learning the Productive “Relaxation” @ Work
- Techniques @ Your Workstation
- Your Clothes
- Your Time
- Your Body
- Your Mind
Exercise: The Checklist & Action Steps
Module 4 : Asserting Yourself in NON-Stressful Ways
- Analysis of Assertiveness
- Assertive Responses
Exercise: Styles of Response & Its Evaluations