Learning to Manage Work-Related Stress More Effectively - Wednesday 19 November 2008
Date: 19th November 2008 at 9:30 AM to 19th November 2008 at 1:00 PM Trainer: Tom Kenny Venue: Derry City Council, 98 Strand Road, Derry
Parking is not available at the Council offices. A map indicating alternative parking is attached to the joining instructions once a booking is made.
Cost: £30 Other Information: This half-day workshop is designed for Managers. Work related stress is a major contributory factor to high absence levels, high turnover figures, reduced productivity, increasing health and safety claims, including increasing accidents and errors in the workplace.
Course Content:
- Stress within the legal context under health and safety legislation.
- Organisational responses to stress.
- Approaches to the management of work-related stress.
For more detailed information please see the notes below from the trainer.
EFFECTIVELY MANAGING STRESS
For more and more people, feeling stressed is an increasingly accepted reality of modern living. Stress or more correctly distress has major consequences for organisations, teams and individuals. Consequences can include increased absenteeism, reduced productivity, lower morale and higher turnover and possibly increasing prevalence of errors and reduced quality of work output.
While accepting stress is an unavoidable part of modern living and work, there are ways of managing stress more effectively so that people do not become distressed. The Aim of this one day Programme is to 'Increase participant's understanding of stress and distress, its origins and manifestations, while also providing a range of tools and techniques which can help participants to more effectively deal with and manage stress'.
Who is this one-day programme aimed at?
This programme is suitable for:
- Individuals who may want to understand stress from an organisation/team perspective and what organisations/teams can and should be doing to support staff in dealing with the everyday stresses of work.
- Individuals who may be experiencing stress/distress themselves and who may want to increase their understanding of stress, including some practical techniques and tools to help them deal more effectively with stressors.
- A combination of both of the above.
Points of note for the participants!
Participants will be expected to complete a Stress Log for at least two weeks prior to the workshop to identify, specify and quantify their most commonly occurring 'stressors'.
Participants will also be required to complete a Stress Self Assessment Questionnaire and complete a single page preparatory sheet prior to the Workshop. While this is minimal in nature, it is important that participants understand and work to meet this expectation.
Learning Outcomes:
Objectives:
By the end of this programme participants will be able to:-
- Be able to explain what stress and distress means.
- Understand why it is important to manage stress effectively from an individual and organisational perspective.
- Correctly cite at least five examples of possible organisational and individual origins/sources of stress.
- Correctly list the various ways in which stress manifests itself within an organisation, at an individual, team and organisational level.
- Begin to understand behavioural profiles and how they impact on people's behaviour, stress levels and stress response.
- Compile their own stress profile and begin to list what 'stresses me'.
- Produce a list of strategies/approaches to effectively manage stress at an organisational/team and individual level.
- Begin to identify at least three coping strategies or techniques which you will begin to use/apply following this workshop.
Bookings should be made online by the TLO, or someone authorised by the TLO.
Note to TLO'S - If you wish to amend the name of the delegate attending the course please Email the details, ie, Name, Course, Date and new participant name to andrew.morton@lgsc.org.uk
Cancellation Policy:
Substitutions may be made at any time, but please give as much notice as possible. In the event of a cancellation notified between two weeks and one week before the start of a course, a charge of £30 per training day will be levied. For a cancellation less than one week before the start of a course, or a nominee's failure to attend a course, a cancellation fee of £60 per training day will be charged to councils. This principle will also be applied if a participant fails to attend on any day of a course lasting two or more days. No charge will be levied if a cancelled place is filled from a reserve list.
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