Overview

How do you stay on top form, even when things aren’t going smoothly? At your best, you’re amazing, but day-to-day pressures, disagreements and worries can easily erode that away. The most obvious way to stop stress from building up, is to do something about what’s causing it. But when many of those causes are things you can’t change, it’s easy to get stuck.

This training course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, strategies and skills to thrive through stressful or challenging situations. Through a combination of practical exercises and real-life examples, participants will learn how to use stress, maintain focus and ultimately excel when faced with challenging circumstances.

All participants will receive lifelong access to a wide range of online resources to aid effective implementation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Recognise the biggest drawbacks of trying to manage stress
  • Learn how to use stress to create energy, not drain it
  • How to reduce the impact of dealing with difficult people
  • Recognise and change the less helpful mind-habits
  • Reduce the effects of negative thinking, to improve sleep quality
  • Understand the most common stress myths, and how to get beyond them
  • Stopping the fight-flight – skills for resourceful thinking, even in high-pressure situations
Agenda
  • Registration and GovPD Welcome Address
  • Welcomes, Wants and Introduction
  • How Stress Affects Performance
    • Understanding the Load-Resources balance
    • Exploring the effects of our state on mind on decisions, mistakes, communication and more
    • How to maintain your emotional neutral and stay resourceful, to not get emotionally hi-jacked in challenging situations
  • Break
  • Reducing Stress With Better Decisions
    • Exploring a unique model of stress, and how to use it day-to-day
    • Overcoming the big stress lie
    • Introducing the 3 types of stress
    • How to convert your own stresses to useful
    • Clearing up on responsibilities
    • Keeping your brain out of efficiency mode
  • Lunch
  • Busting the Most Common Wellbeing Myths
    • Two-part thinking, and how to get the two working together
    • The power of expectation
    • Why trying to think positive can keep us stuck
    • Straightforward strategies to start resolving overload
  • Break
  • Uncovering the Drawbacks of Managing
    • The main reasons why managing stress gives patchy results
    • How to use the noticing effect
    • How to deal more resourcefully with difficult people
    • Why conflict often outlasts its origins, and How to deal more resourcefully with difficult people
    • How to reduce the stresses of change
  • Trainer’s Summary and Close

    *Programme Subject to Change

Pricing
  • Public Sector : £525 +VAT
  • Private Sector : £595+VAT
  • Voluntary Sector : £460+VAT