In this workbook students explore their optimum level of pressure and how personality, attitudes and circumstances can lead to excessive stress. Students look at ways of reducing or limiting stress and focus on techniques they can use, such as maintaining a balance in life, coping with change, handling people assertively and considering how to look after themselves. Learning Areas:
- Exploring optimum pressure levels
- How personality, attitudes and circumstances can lead to excessive stress
- Techniques for limiting or reducing stress
- Maintaining a balance, coping with change
- Handling people assertively
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Looking after yourself
These materials are designed to develop and update skills of potential, newly appointed and experienced supervisors, team leaders and managers, offering a choice of flexible, work based materials to improve individual and organisational performance.
Objectives
Explain the effect stress has on performance
Identify your own optimum level of stress
Explain which of your own behaviour patterns may lead to excessive stress
Explain some common and powerful causes of stress
Describe and use a range of techniques for managing and coping with pressure
Begin to construct a strategy using selected techniques, for handling pressure and limiting stress
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