Time & Stress Management Skills

Time & Stress Management Course

Time & Stress Management Course to learn effective time & stress management skills, tips and strategies. A better understanding and awareness of how we spend our time and learning the technique to help us improve our time management would help us to be more focused and spend our time productively.

Course Title

Time & Stress Management Skills

Course Objectives

At Course Completion, participants will be able to:

• Identify what is stress and its impact on work productivity and themselves.
• Apply techniques to reduce stress and to work effectively in the situation you are in and enjoy what you do.
• Describe and apply a range of techniques associated with managing ourselves around time and when each could be used.
• Demonstrate how being more assertive and managing others’ expectations will help you to gain more time.

Course Content

• Introduction to Stress
  – Stress and its impact on you
  – What are the stress signals?
  – How are stress and time management related?
  – Can we really manage time?
• Managing yourself to reduce stress
  – Understand the emotional system to help you reduce stress
  – Increase your influence
• Identifying the time wasters in your life
• Time (activities) management tools and models to be more effective and get things done
  – Understand the psychology and external factors for procrastination
  – Overcoming procrastination
  – Get organised – the COR steps
  – The 80/20 rule
  – Gaining focus – urgent vs important
  – Weekly planning
• Handle interruptions
  – Identify persistent offenders
  – Time log
  – Learning to use the ‘straight’ or ‘soft’ No to persistent offenders

CLASS PRICING

$407.30 w/GST

define

Stress is the physical or mental response of people to stimuli caused by their environment, which may have a positive or negative impact on their mental and physical health.In the United States alone, more than $150 billion a year is lost in productivity due to frequent absenteeism, absent-mindedness and reduced creativity caused by overstressed employees.

In order to prevent and reduce the negative impact of stress on employees and organizations and exert its positive effect, many enterprise managers have begun to pay attention to the problem of employees’ stress management.The implementation of appropriate pressure management can effectively reduce the psychological pressure of employees, maintain the appropriate pressure, so that employees improve work efficiency, thereby improving the performance of the entire organization, increase profits.

impact

Stress can be a driving force.Stress comes when you have a desire or a sense of urgency.Time magazine suggested in June 1983 that occupational stress had become an epidemic in the 1980s.Studies have found that between 50 and 80 percent of illnesses are related to mental illness and stress.So some researchers assert that if you say a disease, I can tell you that it’s all related to stress, and stress can be related to any disease.Stress is a non-specific response, and different people exhibit different physical conditions.In addition to the physical damage, excessive work stress can have a huge negative impact on the organization.If employees are under too much pressure, they will become dissatisfied, passive and irresponsible. In addition, there will be high turnover, absenteeism and other problems.

The need for

Management is a powerful lever to improve the competitiveness of enterprises, and management (including assessment, supervision, punishment and competition mechanism) is bound to cause psychological pressure on employees.In addition, the increasingly fierce competition has also brought unprecedented pressure for people, everyone feels pressure everywhere, the crisis is house of flying daggers.In the face of the problems caused by stress, stress management emerges.In the field of management, many experts and scholars point out that one of the functions of human resource management is “stress management”.

The status quo

By contrast, a survey conducted by Horizon Market Research Company in Beijing in 2004 showed that 41.1 percent of the white-collar workers were facing great work pressure, and 61.4 percent were experiencing psychological fatigue of varying degrees, and their health status was worrying.However, it is understood that there is no consulting organization in China that specializes in working stress.Therefore, for China, pressure management should not only be introduced to learn from, but also the practice of pressure management is imperative.

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The main body

The main body of stress management is individual employee and human resource department.Stress first acts on individual employees, and employees with different personalities will react differently to the same stress.Studies have shown this.Some employees are prone to frustration, anxiety and irritability after encountering stress, and cannot extricate themselves for a long time.While some employees can handle stress correctly, they can adjust their mood quickly even if they feel uncomfortable.This shows that employees with different personalities have different abilities to regulate and adapt to stress.The main body of stress management also includes the human resource department or the enterprise manager. In the current era of human-oriented management, managers have the responsibility to help employees control their own pressure, so that employees can work happily and their work performance can be improved to achieve the effect of “personnel win-win”.

A cause or source.

In order to effectively manage stress, managers are required to find out exactly where employees’ stress comes from, so as to take active and targeted measures accordingly.

The causes or sources of stress are generally divided into three aspects: work pressure, family pressure and life pressure.

1) Working pressure.Work stress refers to the pressure generated in the work.Its origins can vary.For example, the working environment (including the physical environment and organizational environment of the workplace), the number and difficulty of assigned work tasks, the length of time required to complete the work, the influence of employees’ interpersonal relationship, and the change of new jobs may all be the inducement that causes the work stress of employees.Work pressure should be the focus of human resource managers.

2) Family pressure and social pressure.Every employee has his or her own personal family life, and whether the family life is happy and harmonious has a great impact on employees.These family stresses may come from parents, spouses, children and relatives.

Some of the pressure comes from society.It includes the influence of social macro environment (such as economic environment, industry situation, job market, etc.) and the micro-environment around employees.For example, professional technologies required to be mastered in the IT industry are changing with each passing day, the workplace competition is under great pressure, and the elimination rate of professionals is high, which causes great social pressure to the IT practitioners.The social status and income of the employees also exert social pressure on them.For example, when an employee’s income is lower than that of other social classes or other employees in the same industry, pressure may also be exerted on him.

Although these family and social pressures have nothing to do with work, enterprise managers should also pay attention to them and try their best to reduce the interference of employees. Only in this way can employees be fully engaged in their work.

Pressure channel

In the specific management of the above pressures, specific and comprehensive analysis should be made for each individual with different personalities and sources of stress.Employees with strong ability to regulate and adapt to pressure have strong psychological bearing capacity, and they can deal with and relieve pressure well.When employees with weak psychological adjustment ability encounter pressure, they may not be able to timely control the pressure. At this time, enterprise managers need to do more to help and care for such employees.

Pressure management can be divided into three ways: catharsis, consultation and guidance.

Catharsis as a way to release pressure, the effect should be good.Venting can be done in a variety of ways, such as Shouting in an empty space, strenuous exercise, singing, etc.Studies have shown that physical activity, housework and so on are very beneficial to reduce stress.

Counseling is the professional psychological personnel or relatives and friends to pour out their own heart depressed nervous mood.Almost everyone has an experience to share with a good friend or parent.In fact, whether the person you are confiding in can help you out, confiding itself is a good way to adjust stress.Here the better effect is to communicate with professional psychological counseling.Psychological counseling is a process in which professional psychological counselors communicate with employees through language, text and other media to adjust their psychological or emotional state.Through psychological counseling, employees can change their views, feelings, emotions and other aspects of dealing with pressure, solve their psychological problems, so as to adjust their mentality, face and deal with pressure correctly, maintain physical and mental health, improve work efficiency and quality of life.

Guidance means that managers or others help employees to change their mentality and behavior so that employees can deal with stress correctly.Such as resetting career goals and developing a variety of hobbies are good guides.Employees set the right goals and achieve them through their own efforts, and the associated pressure will disappear.If employees have a variety of interests and hobbies, they can easily divert their attention to the interests and hobbies when they are under pressure, so as to cultivate their emotions and protect their physical and mental health. As a result, their mentality will be calm and the pressure will be relieved and eventually disappear.