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.

Stress Management Course Interview

I've been receiving a few emails regarding attending a stress management course. First of all, I would like to say thank you for your questions and for reading my stress management course blog.

This stress management course blog was produced to help organisations to train their managers abot stress management. Although the techniques can be used for self help, I just want to make it clear that there is a corporate view to this blog as I used to work as a stress management course trainer.

Most of the questions I received were regarding personal stress problems. For these sort of problems I would say that attending a stress management course is not necessary. Although there is nothing wrong with attending a stress management course for self-help - it CAN be a little expensive and there ARE alternatives available, such as this recommended stress management book.

I've also included a video about stress management aimed at personal stress below:

Stress Management Course: What You Will Learn

The content covered in stress management courses will vary but the course outline with largely contain the same topics. Here is a brief outline of a typical stress management course: In the first half of the stress management course your will cover topics that will go over the definition of stress, recognising the symptoms and understanding why stress managment is important. This part of the stress management course is simply an introduction.

The second part of the stress management course will begin to focus on the factors of stress and how to recognise influences of stress (internal and external) using a variety of methods.

Following this, the stress management course will begin to help you develop skills on how to handle stress for yourself and others around you (employees, staff, etc). This part of the stress management course is very important because it gives you practical methods that have been to proven to relieve stress. From experience, members usually find this part of the stress management course most exciting due to active participation.

The final part of the stress management course focuses on some advanced methods of stress training such as building minimum stress teams and stress awareness and how to deal with problems and outcomes of stress.

Stress management courses are available onsite (A trainer will travel to the organisation) or at specified training facilities. We've found that onsite training has been a popular choice for large organisations.

Costs per group will vary but most stress management course trainers charge around £1000 - £2000 per group.

Stress Management Course

Stress management courses are frequently used by major public and private organisations as a tool to aid their managers in dealing with personal stress and the stress of other employees.

Stress management courses are frequently visited by managers in human resource management as they train employees on how to prevent, identify and deal with the symptoms of stress.

These stress management courses will vary in content but most will cover the following topics:

• What is ‘stress’ and why is it important
• The cycle of stress
• Internal and external influences
• Optimising your state
• How to tune your state up and down
• Building resilience through exercises and nutritional awareness
• Problems vs outcomes and how to deal with both
• Awareness - How you make other stressed
• Building minimum stress teams

Usually these topics will be covered in workshops which usually lasts one day. The format of stress management courses usually involve a mixture of classroom based learning, team work and buddy systems.

In the next post, we will cover the things that you can expect to learn from attending stress management courses and how to apply them in real life.