Transforming Stress – Strategies for Staying at Your Best
Overview
Pressure, competing demands, difficult conversations and constant change can leave even the most capable professionals feeling drained, distracted and less effective. Many people try to manage stress by working harder, staying positive or simply pushing through, only to find that stress continues to affect their performance, decision-making, relationships and wellbeing.
This practical and engaging training course provides a different approach. Rather than focusing on eliminating stress altogether, participants will learn how to understand, harness and respond to pressure more effectively. By developing greater self-awareness, building mental resilience and adopting practical techniques that can be applied immediately, delegates will learn how to stay focused, resourceful and productive, even in challenging circumstances.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognise the biggest drawbacks of trying to manage stress
- Learn how to use stress to create energy, not drain it
- How to reduce the impact of dealing with difficult people
- Recognise and change the less helpful mind-habits
- Reduce the effects of negative thinking, to improve sleep quality
- Understand the most common stress myths, and how to get beyond them
- Stopping the fight-flight – skills for resourceful thinking, even in high-pressure situations
Agenda
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Registration and GovPD Welcome Address
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Welcomes, Wants and Introduction
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How Stress Affects Performance
- Understanding the Load-Resources balance
- Exploring the effects of our state on mind on decisions, mistakes, communication and more
- How to maintain your emotional neutral and stay resourceful, to not get emotionally hi-jacked in challenging situations
How to Keep Stress Useful
- Exploring a unique model of stress, and how to use it day-to-day
- How to convert your own stresses to useful
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Break
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Busting the Most Common Wellbeing Myths
- Two-part thinking, and how to get the two working together
- Why trying to think positive can keep us stuck
- The main reasons why managing stress gives patchy results
How to deal more resourcefully with difficult people
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Trainer’s Summary and Close
*Programme Subject to Change
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- Public Sector £290 + VAT
- Private Sector £290 + VAT
- Voluntary Sector £290 + VAT
Trainer
Sue Evans
Sue specialises in helping people to unlock their best performance. Originally from an Engineering background, her career highlights include leading programmes which more than doubled two site’s productivity, and delivering £1.9M waste reduction in under 5 months, with a zero spend. She’s used to delivering big results from little budgets.
Since creating her unique model of stress, Sue’s helped thousands of people to think differently, problem-solve more effectively, worry less, improve confidence and decision-making, and sleep more restfully.
Sue’s an ILM Level 7 certified coach, an NLP Master Practitioner and an Approved Havening® Practitioner (trained in each by the original creators) and a Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association.
