Overview
Today’s workforce is experiencing job burnout and stress in epidemic proportions. Workers at all levels feel stressed out, insecure, and misunderstood. Many people feel the demands of the workplace, combined with the demands of home, have become too much to handle. This course explores the causes of such stress, and suggests general and specific stress management strategies that people can use every day.
Learning Outcomes
After you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Understand that stress is an unavoidable part of everybody’s life
- Recognize the symptoms that tell you when you have chronic stress overload
- Change the situations and actions that can be changed
- Create an action plan for work, home, and play to help reduce and manage stress
- Deal better with situations and actions that can’t be changed
Course Outline
- 2.1: Where Are You Now?
- 2.2: Defining and Identifying Stress
- 2.3: Ways to Look at Your Stress
- 4.1: Taking Care of Your Body and Your Mind
- 4.2: Case Study
- 4.3: The "Less Stress" Lessons
- 5.1: Changing Ourselves
- 5.2: The Triple A Approach
- 6.1: The Stress Tax
- 6.2: Stress Inventory
- 6.3: Finding Some Solutions
- 6.4: Stress Logging
- 8.1: Budgeting Basics
- 8.2: The Everyday Stuff
- 8.3: Organization Tips
