20% for DBWC Members

Phone calls, meetings, projects, too much to do in too little time.

Stress is a fact of everyday life – but too much stress makes us ineffective and reduces the control we have over our lives. This course will help you identify your personal difficulties, reflect upon your stress management and relaxation strategies and become more effective in handling everyday pressures in a sustainable way. If you feel swamped by stress come along and take a fresh look at yourself, rebuild your energy and create a more balanced lifestyle by identifying unsustainable behaviours and developing your stress management resources.

By managing their time more effectively, handling situations more relaxed and impersonal, participants will be able to make a greater contribution to your organization’s goals – they will be more effective at work but will still be able to achieve a sensible work / life balance.

Improving time management and controlling stress is a core skill for anyone wishing to work efficiently and establish good habits. Implementing their action plan will help them to reduce stress and enhance their productivity, and:

• Understand how stress works and develop sustainable behaviors by changing your mindset
• Develop personal resources and avoid stress “overdraft”
• Recognise negative stress and its symptoms
• Identify the causes of unwanted stress
• Avoid negative stress whilst enhancing positive experience
• Develop a balanced lifestyle in order to control stress in the long term
• Utilise effective relaxation and stress reduction techniques
• Develop a Personal Action Plan for Stress Management
• Understand the study of stress and its impact
• Demonstrating techniques for interacting with difficult people
• Learn how changing your Mindset will change the way you look at anything for your benefit
• On the spot breathing and stretching exercises for coping with stress
• Creating reachable goals and implementing them during the session
• Understand when you work best – increasing your effectiveness
• Manage priorities and workloads – improving productivity, meeting and achieving goals
• Stay healthy – in mind and body, even when under pressure

Training objectives

As a result of this course, participants will:

• Have a clear understanding of stress and what causes it
• Be able to highly effective personal strategies, plans and techniques to deal with stress
• Gain a clearer picture of their priorities, both in work and outside
• Learn how to link their short, medium and long-term goals
• Be able to manage and control interruptions and behave more assertively
• Make an informed choice about the best diary system for them and be able to apply simple, practical principles of diary management
• Make better use of their time by making fewer lists but doing more of the things on them!

Workshop Investment:
AED 1300 (Per Participant)
25% discount on 2 or more participants from the same organization

Action planning, review and evaluation

Course outline

• Stress Happens: Determining a Treatment Regime

Stress occurs for a host of different reasons. This program begins with an examination of the causes of stress, a brief history of stress study, and self-diagnostic tool with which participants will pinpoint their biggest stressors: time management issues, communication with co-workers etc.

• I did it to myself: Stopping Self Sabotage

“I can’t…This always happens to me”…Many self-sabotaging behaviours are the result of negative thoughts and poor choices. This lesson is designing to help participants develop new habits after becoming aware of the various ways that they might be sabotaging their success and adding to stress

• Eliminating Stress from the physical environment
  Ergonomics: How to sit correctly at your desk, walking instead of taking the elevator, removing clutter, stretching at your desk and many more.
  There are several techniques for removing stress from the physical environment.
• Mind over Matter! Mental techniques for removing Stress
  Anticipating and avoiding potentially stressful situations, avoiding unnecessary stress, reducing the importance of an event, reducing uncertainty, tapping into imagery, positive thought and meditation are all classic techniques for handling workplace stress. This segment introduces those methods of coping and encourages participants to relax their mind in various ways.
• Stretch, Twist, Reach
  Physical exercises to reduce short-term stress. From deep breathing to stretches, participants will learn a variety of treatments for instant renewal.
• Nutrition Connection: Understanding Food and Stress
  Poor Nutrition leads to stress. This component reviews basic nutrition and the importance of a healthy diet for maximum productivity and increase of energy.
• Positive and Negative Stress explored
• The Human Function Curve and Peak Performance

Negative Stress Explored

- Monitoring stress level

- Symptoms of stress – a personal profile

- The costs of stress – developing sustainable practice

- The benefits of reducing stress

Developing a Personal Strategy

- What causes my stress? Identifying the “pie nibblers”

- Analysing workplace stress and working wisely

- Problems and solutions

Introducing Wellness

– Increasing the “pie”

– Health, exercise, diet and stress

– Stress management techniques

– Learning to relax

– Your glass is half full – positive self-talk

Time stealers & external factors

• Effective meeting structures
• Managing interruptions
• 30 ways to make more time
• Effective Diary Management
• Prioritising your work
• Scheduling techniques
• Using your diary to say ‘no!

Fundamentals of Time Management

• Understanding the principles of productivity
• Avoiding the pitfalls of multitasking
• Practicing mind-clearing techniques
• Saying no with tact
• Mastering the What, When, Where processing system
• Processing email vs. checking email
• Maintaining productivity gains
• Urgent and important
• Pareto’s Rule
• Balancing work and home
• Building a goal tree
• Achieving the right balance of progress and maintenance
• Parkinson’s law

Stress in an organisational context

• Where does stress come from?
• What is the impact on your organisation?
• Trends in recent years
• The psychology and physiology of stress
• What is pressure; what is stress?
• Causes and effects of pressure and stress
• Recognising and reducing my sources of stress
• The pressure management habit
• The 4 way stress model

Strategies, Plans &Techniques for Stress Management

• The communication file structure
• Circles of influence and circles of concern
• SMARTER objective setting
• The importance of achieving control

To Register, contact:

Aymon Ansari
MENA Speakers
050 124 6956
aymon@mena-speakers.com

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