Stress Management
Stress Management Overview
Stress is often caused by people’s response to emotional and physical pressures, and when they become stressed, they are often irritable, unable to concentrate, and would even feel develop manifestations such as headaches and tiredness.
There are two types of stress; positive and negative stress and while most people give a negative connotation to stress, it really is not all that bad. The problem however is that most people feel only negative stress and as a result, they become unproductive and perform poorly.Because stress is common in the workplace, exforsys.com stress management training will help you learn to deal with stress healthily. Besides from this, you will also learn the right management techniques to use in order to relieve yourself of stress and even prevent it.
Training Objectives
By the end of this self-paced training, you will be able to:
Identify the causes of stress
Know the different types of stress
Know how not to cause stress to yourself
Know how to prevent stress
Learn the techniques used to manage mental, emotional, and physical stress
Learn the different techniques used in order to get rid of stress
Determine when would be the right time to seek help from a specialist
Target Audience
This is especially usefully for people who have difficulty managing stress, such as those who have become less productive and less happy with themselves due to stress. As everyone get stressed at one point or another, you too can make use of this training and benefit greatly from the techniques provided in this section.
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