Stress management & decision making

How to manage stress and make better decisions

The training equips the participants in a useful toolkit, that increases their confidence in reducing stress and tension at work.

This course will help participants to prevent and manage stress at work. There will be opportunities to relate the content to the participants’ own work environment. Participants will understand the physiology of stress and identify its sources. They will consider a range of practical stress management techniques. They will learn how to recharge physical, emotional and mental batteries.

Through practical exercises the training will support participants in boosting their self-confidence in decision-making.

Training Outline “Managing stress and better decision-making”:

Personality and communication style typology and how they manage stress & affect decision-making process

Personality typology in DISC – understanding yourself & other people
How our personality affects decision-making process, reactions to stress & pressure and self-confidence
Adapting communication style in building communication in teams – creating less stress environment

2. Stress management at work – recognizing the signs, sources and mechanisms

The essence, origin and complexity of stress response
What are my sources and reactions to stress – physical, emotional, mental and social
Recognizing one’s own pattern of responding to difficult situations
How to change the approach to stress and use its energy

3. Stress management techniques and work life balance

Review of current stress management techniques being used by the group
Mindfulness training in stress management – basic methods and tools
Practical breathing and relaxation techniques: deep breathing, energy boost breathing, Marines technique
Boosting self-confidence: anti-fear technique, Body2Brain exercise
Shultz autogenic training

4. Developing Resilience trough practical mental training

Mental Strength and Resilience as a self-management skill – how to develop it? Practical strategies based on Mental Toughness model (MTQ48)
Your attitude as a key filter – how to choose growth and support resilience
ABCD of emotions – understanding and changing thoughts and emotions
How to identify as well as change automatic negative thought processes

5. Decision-making process and stress

Difficult decision – the essense and complexity of decision – making process
Difficult decisions & emotions – understanding the information in emotions
Internal blocks – identifying and overcoming restrictive beliefs
Methods to tackle personal limitation with restrictive thoughts
Methods to build self-confidence

6. Developing resilience within teams and supporting resilience culture

Building a resilient learning culture and safe social support system
Learning from failures – how to create open communication and safe learning environment
How to use feedback skills to increase resilience
Emotions in communication that build trust and resilience in teams

7. Managing energy – practical strategies to build work-life balance & wellbeing

In the search of balance – the influence of lifestyle in enhancing energy
Four sources of energy: how to cultivate more energy and use it wisely
Methods to build positive emotions and happiness advantage attitude
Strategies to build internal and external support

8. My personal action plan

What I will begin doing? What I will refrain from doing?
How to build habits aimed at strengthening resistance?
What will be my first steps?

The Attendees will:

Learn easy to apply Positive Psychology anti stress techniques
Relate personality style characteristics to the type of stress response and emotional intelligence management
Practice how to be more concentrated yet relaxed thanks to relaxation and breathing exercises
Overcome internal blocks in decision-making process and learn how to reduce tension
Learn how to manage stress and ones reactions to it in interpersonal relations
Develop skills of raising ones level of energy, boosting enthusiasm and self-confidence to manage stress in the long run
Increase confidence and sense of control in stressful situations at work
Increase self – confidence and assertiveness in situations that trigger reaction ” fight or fright”
Work together and create bonds, trust and team spirit