Thursday 8 February 2007

Stress Management Course Tips

It can be quite daunting taking part in stress management course if you are not sure what to expect.

Many people will assume that stress management course are not necessary because they percieve stress management as common sense. My experience suggests that these people are, in fact, misinformed and they could greatly benefit from attending a stress management course.

The reason for this is that a stress management course is not just about managing personal stress. It is also about learning to identify, control and benefit from stress of others.

There are two types of stress; distress and eustress.

Distress is the negative type of stress that most people commonly classify as stress. However, there is also a positive stress, eustress. Eustress is the type of stress you get that motivates you to get up in the morning and go to work. It's makes you achieve things.

In most stress management courses, you will learn how identify stress of others around you (team members) by looking for symptoms of stress and other indicators. You will also learn advanced techniques on how to control stress (we're not talking about stress balls here) so that the productivity of the individual and organisation can benefit.

If you are thinking of attending or recommending a stress management course for you organisation, my advice is to make sure everyone (including yourself) approaches stress management with an open mind.

1 comment:

Jorge Miller said...

Stress management is a must to know. We all experience stress in our everyday life. There are lots of way on how to relief stress.

releasing stress