Workplace Training
Managing Stress, Anxiety & Burnout
This blended learning course builds on your existing mental health awareness.
Moving beyond awareness, the course focuses on the development of practical
coping strategies that you can use to lessen the impact of stress and anxiety,
in and out of the workplace.
Course Rationale:
Stress and Anxiety have a significant impact in the workplace.
Did you know that:
- Work is the most stressful factor in most people’s lives
- People are working on average an extra 29 hours per month due to our technology- enabled ‘always on culture’
- 1 in 5 people said that being constantly connected to work makes them feel mentally exhausted
- 43% of employees do not feel comfortable disclosing ‘unmanageable stress’ to their employer or manager
- Mental health related presenteeism and leaveism are rising
The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased stress and anxiety.
Did you know that:
- The most common issues currently affecting wellbeing are: worrying about the future (63%); and feeling stressed or anxious (56%).
- Anticipatory Anxiety is a significant emerging issue from COVID-19.
- The population’s ability to cope with the stress of the pandemic is declining.
Supporting employees is essential
Managing and supporting employees’ stress and anxiety at work is a critical and growing challenge for employers. This course helps delegates understand the stress and anxiety they may be experiencing as well as providing lots of practical hints and tips for managing their own mental health. Awareness and understanding of the impact of mental health is increasing. But we still face a world where many employees feel unable to speak up about stress and anxiety they are experiencing. And importantly for businesses – how it is impacting them in the workplace.
On completion of the course, delegates will have a deeper understanding of what they and others have experienced and will be confident that they have a range of management and coping strategies that they can use to proactively manage their own stress and anxiety, as well being better able to support others.
Course Overview:
This blended learning course builds on your existing mental health awareness. Moving beyond awareness, the course focuses on the development of practical coping strategies that you can use to lessen the impact of stress and anxiety, in and out of the workplace.
You will be given the opportunity to explore your own experiences, identify personal sources of anxiety and stress – and their subsequent impact. Using this insight, you will develop a range of coping strategies that can be used to enhance your mental wellbeing and that of others.
The emphasis of this course is on applying practical solutions to manage stress and anxiety and to prevent burnout. The course content is suitable for those that may be living with a mental health difficulty and for those that want to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
The course is suitable for:
- People managers who want to understand how stress and anxiety may be impacting their team members or themselves both in and out of the workplace. Our trainers will help you explore a range of practical coping strategies that can be put into place to effectively manage stress, anxiety and prevent burnout.
- Employees who want to explore how stress and anxiety is affecting them. We will teach you how to use a range of coping strategies that will improve their mental wellbeing and reduce the risk of burnout.
Key Themes explored in the training:
- Spotting the signs and symptoms of anxiety and stress.
- Understanding personal experiences of anxiety, stress and burnout including thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
- Developing coping strategies to manage stress and anxiety in and out of the workplace.
- Connecting with others that may have similar experiences in your wider workplace or community.
- Empowering delegates to actively manage their mental health.
- Implementing a Wellness Action Plan.
- Applying HSE Guidance to tackle workplace stress.
Learning outcomes:
In the interactive live online session delegates will:
- Become confident at spotting the signs and symptoms of anxiety and stress in and out of the workplace.
- Recognise potential sources of workplace stress and explore potential triggers and sources of anxiety.
- Understand the risk of burnout and contributing factors in and out of the workplace.
- Explore how COVID-19 has contributed to stress, anxiety and burnout.
- Consider the impact of an ‘always on’ culture and the rise of presenteeism and leaveism.
- Better understand your own personal experiences of stress and anxiety and how it has affected your thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
- Gain confidence in using a range of practical coping strategies to manage stress and anxiety, and prevent burnout including:
- Learn practical ‘If-then’ plans for addressing early warning signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety and burnout.
- An understanding of the drive, threat and soothing symptoms and how to activate self- soothing.
- Understanding and re-framing unhelpful thinking.
- Identifying and replacing rumination & dwelling
- Achieving balance through ‘The Five Ways to Wellbeing’
- Balancing our inner critic and our compassionate self.
- Utilise Dorset Mind Works’ Wellness Action Plan.
- Apply HSE guidance on tackling workplace stress
Bespoke Training
If there is something specific you would like us to cover in a bespoke package,
we are happy to work with you to create this training.
Sponsor us
Did you know you can sponsor a training session?
This means that we can offer our expert training to people that need mental health support in our community for FREE. If you’d like to sponsor a presentation delivered by our Training Team then get in touch – We’d love to hear from you!
