Stress management Training - Understanding stress at work
Featured in the Stress Management at Work training manual
By Mary Richards
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Stress means different things to different people. You may feel it’s too much work or it may be too little. Perhaps it’s a deadline or maybe you can’t function without one. Stress may result in a loss of appetite or the desire to over-eat. It may encourage you to become withdrawn or to become loud and angry. To study stress it is, therefore, important to understand what stress is. This training activity aims to help participants understand that stress is a response to pressure. Because this is an introductory session, it will also deal with the participants’ expectations of the training.
You begin this training activity by establishing the participants’ expectations for the session through instruction and discussion, and the participants work towards an agreed definition of stress. In groups, they go on to identify potential sources of pressure and then in plenary discussion conclude that it is people who create and dictate levels of stress at work.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to ensure that all participants have a common understanding of what stress is and where it comes from.
- Themes:
- Pressure at work,
- Stress,
- Stress management,
- Understanding stress,
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:30:00 |
| No of Pages: | 11 |
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Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers as an introduction to a stress management training programme. It is a core activity and, combined with ‘Recognising stress’, will form the base of knowledge that will support the learning points in all subsequent activities on the topic. If only short periods of time are available for training, this activity can be run on its own and followed at a later stage by ‘Recognising stress’.
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