Need Help Crafting Stress Management Training for Managers and Staff – Any Suggestions?

Dear All

I am planning to conduct training on stress management, what I have in mind is to deliver this training to two deferent categories with two different materials

First category will be for managers, second category will be for staff, I urgently need your help in preparing the guide line for the 2 training

I assume that manager's part will take 2 days, while the staff part will take one day, can you help please

Regards,

Hello,

I am a final year MBA student, and I conducted training on stress management as my project. I provided this training to the students in the class. What we did was we engaged them in playing various indoor games and then related each game to concepts of stress management. Subsequently, we asked them how they would handle stressful situations.

My suggestion would be to incorporate management games into your training sessions and then connect these games to the topic. This approach helps in engaging all employees.

For example, we instructed the students to construct a tower using newspapers and magazines within three minutes in groups of five members. This activity taught them how to manage a team effectively under high-stress situations when working towards achieving targets.

Dear Dr. Tofy,

Stress results from personal and organizational factors. When you undergo training on stress, please ask yourself a question - will I focus on the causes of stress or the symptoms?

Training on stress should lead to identifying organizational factors that trigger stress and devising a remedial action plan for their elimination. While there are stress management techniques available, these primarily address the symptoms. Without addressing the root cause, merely treating the symptoms serves no purpose.

Regards,

Dinesh V Divekar

We do have a specific program for stress management. A small preview of the program is given in the attachment.

Dear,

What do you exactly do to decrease the stress of employees? Is it through management games or just discussing it?

Thank you.

Stress management, by the mere words, accepts that stress is a fait accompli and would exist in workplaces, so it must be managed. However, the causes of stress are not addressed at all. A better idea would be to carry out a survey of the organization, locate the stress causes, and try to remove them. Therefore, stress management should focus on managers, as they are the ones who create stress. The training should be for managers to learn how to locate the causes of stress and resolve those issues. It is the management that causes stress, and they alone need training.

Regards,
Zahid
Pakistan

Hi,

A PowerPoint presentation on stress management is attached for your information. I hope this will help you.

Regards,
VM

Dear Dr. Dr. TofyGuy,

The way I look at stress is that we experience stress because of our belief system; it is not the events that make me stressful but how I interpret these events. Authors like Eckhart Tolle (Power of Now, Stillness Speaks), Neale Donald Walsh - Conversations with God, and also the teachings of Jesus, Buddha... have been of immense help to me in dealing with my stress.

Lawrence

In addition to mere classroom training on stress management, it would be beneficial if it were combined with a stress management workshop. This workshop should include providing practical experience in managing stress to the attendees.

Thank you!