Stress management for business owners, directors & managers

Brief Summary

This super friendly course helps you tackle stress with over 50 practical strategies. You'll learn about the impact of stress, devise a personalized stress plan, and build resilience—just like chatting with a buddy!

About This Course

Reduce and manage stress at work and in business and be more resilient, with 50+ practical stress management strategies

Do you want to reduce your current stress?

Do you want to manage stress positively going forward and be more resilient to stress over time?

Do you want an insight into stress, its impact, symptoms and causes?

This course is a practical action oriented course designed to give you the tools, tips and strategies to reduce your current stress and to enable you to manage stress positively going forward and to be more resilient to stress over time. 

This course aims to give you an insight into stress, its impact, symptoms and causes, as well as to give you practical steps to follow to reduce your current stress. The course will also give you a wealth of stress management tips and strategies to help you to tackle the root causes of your stress and to help you to manage stress more effectively going forward. As you go through the course you will be able to apply the learning and develop your own personalised stress plan. 

The course is designed to be practical and relevant to real life. It includes a straightforward process that you can follow to reduce your current stress and lots of ideas, tips and strategies as to how to reduce and manage stress. The course takes a holistic view of stress management with stress management strategies for all areas of your life. It is not a theoretical or academic course on stress.

What are the course aims?

The course aims to:

* Give you an insight into stress, its impact, symptoms and causes.

* Show you a process that you can follow to reduce your current stress.

* Provide you with practical stress management tips and strategies to help you to tackle the root cause of your stress and to help you to manage stress positively going forward and to build your resilience to stress over time.

* Enable you to develop your own personalised stress plan during the course. 

What is included in the course?

The course has the following sections: 

* Introduction, including an introduction to the course and the tutor

* Stress, including what is stress and can stress be good for you?

* Reduce stress now, including a stress management process to reduce stress, the symptoms of stress, the causes of stress and taking action to reduce your stress

* Practical stress management tips and strategies, including a whole range of tips and strategies to help you tackle the root cause of your stress, to manage stress positively going forward and to build your resilience to stress over time.

* Your stress plan, including your own symptoms, causes, actions and strategies.

* Course summary, including a short summary of the course, a course quiz to self assess your learning and a checklist of all the tips and strategies covered in the course.

We have also included introductions and summaries throughout the course to help with learning.

The course is in short bite sized lectures and you can see the detailed course content in the course curriculum.

Practical activities - Developing your own personalised stress plan and a course quiz

There are also worksheets to complete as you go through the course to develop your own personalised stress plan. These include identifying the symptoms and the causes of your stress, as well as actions to take to reduce your current stress and strategies to follow to manage stress positively going forward and to build your resilience to stress over time.

There is also a short multiple choice quiz in the Summary section of the course for you to use to self assess your learning from the course.

You will need to allow additional time in addition to the duration of the videos to complete the worksheets and quiz.

What will you cover on the course and what will you learn?

As you go through the course you will be looking at your own stress, how it is manifesting, the impact on you, your work and your business, the causes of your stress, how to manage stress and stress management tips and strategies.

By the end of the course you will have a better understanding of stress, understand the root causes of your stress, have an action plan for reducing your stress levels and have stress management strategies in place to support you to manage stress positively going forward and to build your resilience to stress over time.

Even if you are not stressed at the moment you will have the opportunity to review you, your work and your business and to decide on actions to take to support you in managing stress positively going forward and building your resilience to stress over time.

Important notes & more about the course

If you are already very knowledgeable about stress and stress management, this course may not be for you. It includes an insight into stress (including what is stress and whether stress can be good for you), its impact, symptoms and causes, a stress management process to reduce stress, practical stress management tips and strategies and an opportunity to develop your own stress plan, some or all of which you may already know a lot about.  

You can watch the lectures at your convenience on your computer, tablet or smart phone.   

You can choose to complete the whole course or just watch the lectures that are most relevant to you, whichever you prefer. You can watch each lecture in full or just the elements you want to watch and you can stop a lecture at any point if you want to study the content in more detail.

You can watch the lectures at the preassigned speed or you can choose to speed up or slow down the lectures to suit your own preference.

We have included links in the resource section of the Introduction video to the Udemy help section which explains in detail how to access and watch the course, so you can find out more about watching the course and adjusting the course settings (such as course speed) to suit your individual preferences.

We have also included links in the resource section of the Course summary video to the Udemy help section which explains in detail how to download your course certificate after watching the whole course.

Other personal development courses

The instructor of this course, Liz Makin, is an online course instructor focusing on personal development with courses on anxiety management, coaching, communication, conflict management, people management skills, resilience, soft skills, stress management, time management and work life balance. If you want to explore any of these personal development topics, please consider taking one of my other online courses.

Good luck

Good luck with the course and I hope you find it invaluable.

• Understand more about stress, its impact, symptoms and causes, at work, in your business and in your personal life.

• A stress management process to use to reduce your current stress and for ongoing stress management.

• Over 50 practical stress management tips and strategies to help you reduce and manage your stress.