Managing Stress

This intensive course provides managers with the essential knowledge and skills to recognise and manage personal stress, and prebvent deal with stress experienced by their team members.

Stress is a normal feature of the human experience, whether at work, or at home. The harmful effects of prolonged stress are loss of motivation, exhaustion, and potentially serious mental and physical health problems.

How we respond to stress depends on our personalities, but stress responses can be learned and with this learning, a better quality of life can emerge.

In this course, you will learn how to recognize personal stress, and identify the stressors which may be harming your health and most likely impacting your productivity.



You will learn a range of techniques to respond to and control the stressors which occur, and how to reach a balance between your personal life and personal life.

You will also learn how to cope with difficult situation and people, and how to avoid personal burnout.


Stress is a normal feature of the human experience, whether at work, or at home. The harmful effects of prolonged stress are loss of motivation, exhaustion, and potentially serious mental and physical health problems.

In this course, we begin with examining the stress factors in your workplace, and assessment of the impact these are having on your personal work experience, and your home life. You learn a range of techniques to improve how you approach and manage work schedules, manage relationships with your team and colleagues, and how you can build up a strong personal stress defense foundation.

We then move on to examine the stress experienced by members of your team. You will use the United Kingdoms's Health and Safety Executive workplace stress management competence model to assess your own compteence in managing stress, and also learn how to recognize stress in your people.