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Managing Stress at Work
Pressure should not dictate how you work. Identify your stress factors and use appropriate responses to protect your concentration and your capacity to engage with others. Build practical reference points to approach demanding periods with greater perspective.
- Duration
- 2 days 14 hours
- Code
- MGMT14FR Code
Presentation
In demanding professional environments, with frequent changes and intense pressure to deliver results, managing stress is an essential skill for maintaining balance and performance and contributing to a healthy workplace.
This course helps participants understand how stress works, identify their own stress factors and recognise its physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural signs. It also offers practical tools for preventing excessive stress, supporting recovery, regulating tension and responding more appropriately to difficult workplace situations.
The course combines theoretical input, experience sharing, self-assessment exercises, role plays and the development of an individual action plan.
Objectives
Training objective
By the end of the course, participants will be able to analyse their stress mechanisms, identify warning signs and implement appropriate strategies to prevent and manage stress at work.
Learning objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Define stress and distinguish its positive and negative dimensions.
- Identify the main stress factors in professional situations.
- Describe stress mechanisms and distinguish types of stress.
- Recognise the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural signs of stress and know how to respond.
- Analyse workplace situations that generate stress.
- Use simple stress-regulation techniques and adopt appropriate behaviours to prevent stress.
- Develop an individual action plan to manage stress more effectively.
Program
Day 1 — Understanding stress and identifying its mechanisms
Module 1 — Understanding stress at work
- Defining stress.
- Natural responses and self-assessment of our relationship with stress.
- Collective and individual stress factors; workplace stressors.
Module 2 — Stress mechanisms
- Stress mechanisms and types.
- The four stages of stress regulation.
- The effects of stress on the body, mind and professional functioning.
- The relationship between stress, fatigue and risky behaviours.
Module 3 — Stress and risk prevention
- The effects of stress on health, relationships and collaboration.
- Warning signs and prevention of psychosocial risks at work.
- Reflective practice and case studies.
- Simulations and reflection on professional situations.
Day 2 — Preventing and regulating your own and others' stress at work
Module 4 — Initial responses to stress and acknowledging emotions
- Immediate responses to provide safety and support.
- The importance of a calm, reassuring environment.
- Acknowledging emotions, active listening, empathy and techniques to calm stress.
- Attitudes to avoid.
- The limits of a support role: knowing when to refer someone or hand over in cases of intense, chronic or traumatic stress.
Module 5 — Applying regulation techniques
- Finding your own calming methods from established techniques: deep, conscious breathing, refocusing and grounding, pausing and verbalising. Analysis and guided exercises.
- Active regulation techniques: cognitive reframing, an emotional journal and other approaches.
- Guided reflection on our life principles and personal balance; safe group experiences.
Module 6 — Preventing stress in your workplace
- Identifying stressors and addressing their causes. Case study: stress within a team.
- Helping clarify the information and framework needed to manage stress at work: feedback, processes and suggested levers. Small-group work: proposing prevention actions.
- Knowing when to refer someone to a professional in cases of acute, chronic or traumatic stress.
- Developing individual action plans: my stressors, my warning signs, my strategies and my commitments.
Audience
Anyone wishing to better understand and manage stress in a professional context: employees, managers, team leaders, project managers, and support or operational staff.
Prerequisites
No specific knowledge is required.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
Course highlights
A safe approach to stress management that provides practical methods and tools while enabling in-depth analysis of participants' real-life situations.
The trainer's expertise in workplace mental health issues.
Dates and sessions
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No upcoming sessions are currently available.