Stress Management: Are We Managing Stress Effectively?

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“Stressful environment can take a tow on your performance at work. It is important for us to identify how to deal with stress at workplace for best performance.”

By Dr Kamal Kenny

PhD in Gender Development • Master in Science • Degree in Social Science • PSMB TTT Exempted • HRDF Claimable

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Introduction

Stress has been called ‘the invisible disease’. It is a disease that may affect you or anyone in your organisation. Therefore, you cannot ignore it. It is a general term for the pressures and problems people experience as they go through life.

Extreme stress may be bad, however some degree of stress is normal and necessary for day to day survival. Even when people are relaxed there is a minimal amount of stress present. Without stress, energy and motivation would be absent. Stress is unavoidable in our lives.

This programme on Stress Management is to provide participants with some useful learning on how to reduce the stress and manage conflict that one is likely to encounter as one moves forward in one’s career to reach one’s professional goals. In fact all of us should be able to achieve our career goals without damaging our health.

Useful tips will be given, with advice on how to spot warning signals, how to relax, and how to reduce unhealthy stress.

Course Objectives

On completion of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Know what are the causes and sources of stress
• Know the effect when place under tremendous physical or psychological stress
• Analyse one’s job and how to spot warning signals
• Take actions to reduce stress to a healthy level
• Make time to relax – some exercises that can be done at the workplace to relieve stress
• Help other people in stress situation

Course Outline

INTRODUCTION

• Opening Speech
• Ice-Breaking Session and Getting to know you
• Programme Objectives

UNDERSTANDING STRESS

• What is Stress?
• The circumstances you got through while at work
• Do you know the effect of stress?
• On the society, on the company, on the body, on the family
• Recognise the Symptoms
• Physical Signs, Emotional Signs

HOW TO MEASURE WHETHER WE SUFFER FROM STRESS?

• Individual Stress
• Organisational Stress
• Different Levels of Stress
• A Self Test

ANALYSING THE CAUSES OF STRESS

• Changing Societies
• Population, Roles, Urbanisation
• Change in the Company
• Pressure at Work, Operations, Work Cultures, Long Hours of Work
• Change in Practice
• New Technology, New Location

LOOKING AT JOBS AND THEIR STRESS LEVELS

• Looking at different jobs and the stress that are likely to be in the Job

ASSESSING CONFLICT RELATIONSHIPS

• Dealing with Superiors
• Dealing with Colleagues
• Dealing with Subordinates

STRESS CYCLES

• Yearly Cycles, Monthly Cycles, Weekly Cycles, Daily Cycles
• Manage Your Time
• Make Time to Relax - At Work, Exercises you can do at work
• Helping Others to Cope

ASSESSING THE WORKPLACE CONFLICT

• Looking at the Work Conditions
• Making Changes
• The Company's Attitude
• The Culture
• The Commitment
• Changing Attitudes

TAKING POSITIVE ACTION

• Start Gradually
• Committing to Change
• Improve Surroundings
• Enhance Your Work Place
• Work Patterns and Stressful Times

Methodology

Where appropriate, activities will include the following:

• Short Lectures
• Group and Individual Discussions/Presentations/Role Plays
• Self-Discovery Activities
• Intelligent Adult Games
• Short Video Clips
• Energisers

At the end of each activity, there will be a debriefing so that participants will capture the learning points for them to apply at their workplace and daily life.

Who had attended this training?

• Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ)

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