ACHIEVING LIFE BALANCE - A STRESS MANAGEMENT SEMINAR

Description

Today’s work environments are continuously in transition. While changes may be motivated in positive outcomes for employees and organizations alike, they can create major stress for employees at all levels of the organization. The significant increase in ‘non-injury work claims’ point toward the need to develop greater coping skills to handle both the velocity and intensity that can accompany change. The ability to cope with stress is a critical self-management tool needed for successful navigation through change, and challenges. By capitalizing on coping resources available to each of us, one can move through transitions and crises without damage to self or to others.

The coping resources that will be assessed and discussed in this session are:

• closeness,
• flexibility,
• communication and
• problem solving.

Participants will discover how well they use these skills in different environments and then create plans for increasing coping skills and decreasing personal stress.
They will compare how their use of these resources in one environment compares to the use of the same resource in another situation.

Objectives

• Discover individual stress issues in all areas of life
  
• Capitalize on your coping strengths to manage stress
  
• Identify areas for coping skills improvement
  
• Learn to minimize or eliminate common daily stressors
  
• Communicate more effectively and objectively
  
• Develop flexibility in responding to change
  
• Build mutual support and trust through closer relationships
  
• Maximize resources to achieve more with less

Key Topics

• What are your coping strengths and opportunities for growth? 
   
• Problem solving skills and their relation to stress 
   
• Communication skills and their relation to stress

• How closeness to others influences our ability to cope with stress 
   
• Flexibility - a critical coping skill 
   
• Six important steps for making and maintaining positive movement in life

Collect scores from participants to create a team report. Use this to identify team strengths and needs for future development.

Download a sample PDF report

Materials

When faced with a stressor, most people direct their energy to the situation or the other person. The reality is you can rarely change the situation and you can never change the other person. The only area you have total control over is yourself. You can always change your reaction to a situation or a person. The Coping & Stress Profile® helps you to develop the four key coping resources which focus on relationships in the four major life areas:

• Personal
• Work
• Family
• Couple

The four key relationship coping resources are:

1. Problem solving- the ability to deal directly with, not avoid, the problems you face and make positive changes to resolve them.
2. Communication- the ability to honestly share thoughts and feeling with others to promote mutual understanding.
3. Closeness- a comfort level with others and the ability to connect with people in your environment.
4. Flexibility- an openness and ability to respond to change.

The Coping & Stress Profile® simplifies the complex connections between work life and personal life. People explore their coping strengths and discover opportunities to develop new skills:

• Provides critical insight into how stress in one area of life impacts other areas
• Examines how coping resources in one area impacts can be used to decrease stress in another area
• Shows the relationship between stress, coping resources, and overall life satisfaction

Conduct this program yourself with a complete Facilitator's Kit