Stress management courses are frequently used by major public and private organisations as a tool to aid their managers in dealing with personal and the stress of other employees.
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 / reduce the stress of others.
If you or your employees suffer from stress, it should not be ignored. If left unchecked, it can have a significant effect on your health and wealth. Companies also have a legal duty to take action. And it’s in their interests to do so, given that a stress-free workforce is happier, more efficient and more productive.
The content covered a stress management course will vary but the course outline will largely contain the same topics. Here is a brief outline of a typical course:
In the first half of the course, you will cover topics that will go over the definition of stress, recognising the symptoms and understanding why stress management is important.
The second part of the 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 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 course most exciting due to active participation.
The final part of the course focuses on some advanced methods of stress training such as building minimum stress teams and 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 and workshops. We’ve found that onsite training has been a popular choice for large organisations.
Costs per group will vary but most course trainers charge around 1000 gbp – 2000 gbp per group.
The general feedback from large organisations who participate in stress management courses have been very positive and have found the training material to be very beneficial and effective at dealing with and improving employee productivity.
Many of the larger companies such as Microsoft and MSN integrate some form of stress management into their human resource training as they recognise the importance of being able to deal with this commonly overlooked problem.