Positive Stress Management

– Inner strength, outer calm

Why do you get stressed – and is stress only negative?
We often get stressed because of challenges or merely at the thought of challenges where we are unable to control the entire process ourselves. Some of us tend to stress ourselves – and perhaps others – out, unnecessarily, when we are not in control. Therefore, how do you get ready to conquer a new day without stress? And how do you stay happy in your job?

Stress is a two-edged sword: the positive side of stress provides drive and dynamism, enabling you to yield a greater effort in demanding circumstances. The negative side of stress, however, can be the stage prior to burnout and be decidedly dangerous to your health. You may have experienced symptoms of negative stress already in the form of chest pain, sleeping disorders, etc.

The earlier you identify and actively tackle stress, the better your chances of minimising the negative impact and of handling demanding tasks more effectively. Hence this course also has a highly preventive effect.

Participants
Participants are both leaders and employees who are finding that the pressure of work and time pressure have become a burden on a daily basis – they would like to find methods for breaking free of the negative stress that is damaging to their health and affecting their effectiveness and job satisfaction. Participants have often felt the early signs of stress and wish to make an effort to become aware of preventing stress in the future.

Benefit
The course will give you a number of methods that can be applied in practice to handle your excessive work pressure effectively and constructively. The methods will not only benefit you but will also, to a great extent, offer your colleagues and your manager inspiration, so that the entire department can share in your benefit from the course.

You will learn to:

• Perceive the typical danger signals for stress
• Avoid stressing yourself – and others – out
• “Recharge” mentally
• Tackle demanding work situations
• Use various methods to distinguish between serious and harmless stress signals and to devise constructive, targeted action strategies

In addition, you will be given or learn:

• A personal stress test in the form of a questionnaire that shows your own stress level. You complete the test yourself and it is for personal use only!
• Techniques for making use of the positive aspect of stress, so that your effectiveness, desire to perform and perspective are increased in your daily work
• Help to strengthen your ability to tackle demanding work situations
• Methods for planning constructive, targeted action strategies
• Methods for “mentally recharging”, which gives you energy in your stressful everyday life
• Physical and psychological de-stressing techniques

Your company will gain:

• A “stress ambassador” who will inspire the entire company
• An employee who avoids stressing him or herself and others out and who therefore makes better contributions to the effective solving of tasks

Course content
The course will give you insight into:

• An occupational-psychological explanatory model of the psychological working environment, i.e. the interaction between the job’s content and demands and our personal characteristics and resources
• Positive stress management from a scientific point of view
• How to prevent stress. Which behavioural changes you need to pay attention to in yourself and your colleagues
• How you can contribute to influencing the psychological working environment in a positive manner, so that it will benefit the company, your manager, your colleagues and yourself
• How physical and mental techniques can strengthen your personal resources, so that you will get more energy to handle a large amount of work and time pressure
• How you can learn to put your foot down with regard to your own “inner tyrant” and how you can learn to stop being Mr. Nice Guy

Additional consultancy
For additional consultancy and personal sparring, please contact product manager Merete Bernhardtsen by calling +45 4517 6119 or send an e-mail.

Learning method
The course alternates between brief theoretical presentations, plenary discussions and group work. The goal is to analyse the action strategies that could benefit you and your workplace. We will focus on discussing how you can personally help to strengthen your psychological working environment so that it will benefit your entire department.

Course duration
The course is two days long.

Facilitator
Johnny Schultz is one of Denmark’s most experienced course organisers. Over the past 18 years, his courses on positive stress management have been taken by more than 1,000 people each year.
Johnny Schultz has an MSc in Psychology and a research background specialising in stress and the psychological working environment as well as organisational psychology.
He is the author of the Politiken’s highly praised book about stress, about which Dr. Bo Netterstrøm writes in the preface: “This is one of the most useful books that have been written about stress. It is my hope that many readers will take its message to their hearts!”
Johnny is a vibrant and engaged facilitator who focuses on making the facilitation spirited and dynamic. He works with theories that are useful in practice on a day-to-day basis. Johnny’s motto is: “Listen to your body – it never lies!”

The price includes
Before the course

• Invitation to a free two-hour meeting on “Good Learning”
• Written exercise

During the course

• 2 days of facilitation
• 1 facilitator
• All meals during the course
• Max. 16 participants
• Sparring on your own challenges
• Personal action plan
• Course binder with compendium
• Notebook for your notes