This course will challenge your thinking and about how you view stressor in your life and in organizations. Stress is inevitable and essential to push individuals and organizations to grow, develop, perform and succeed. This program recognizes that work life is stressful and at times risky. The challenge and opportunity in stressful and changing times is to learn more about ourselves and how we may better respond to a changed world of work and organizational life. Students will learn about stress and its relationship to a healthy lifestyle and productivity. Students will also examine their methods of dealing with stress and their personal stress reactions. Students will be given instruction on practical new coping skills to reduce the negative impact of stress and to how to convert stress into energy. This course offers a historical perspective of stress and provides tools to enable students and the organization to be stronger, healthier and more productive. It is about achievement and health, not achievement or health.
Students will understand how thinking affects perceptions and reactions to events
Students will learn and practice reframing their thinking
Stress Management for DummiesAuthor: Allen Elkins Ph.D., 1999, Publisher: Wiley books. |
Read the Introduction and Chapters 1, 2 and 3 in Stress Management for Dummies.
Focus on pages 16 through 22.
Read Elkins, Chapters 4 through 8
Stress Management for Dummies, chapters 9 through 13
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