Today’s workforce is experiencing job burnout and stress in epidemic proportions. Workers at all levels, both employee and management feel stressed out, insecure and under appreciated. Many feel the demands of the workplace have become too much to handle. The financial impact of stress on corporate Canada is staggering, not to mention the cost to the individual. It is imperative that your workload, both personal and professional, be put in perspective.

This one-day stress management training workshop will explore the harmful long-term effects of stress on our mental and physical health and provide suggestions for managing our individual stresses more effectively. Learn how to manage the pressures of life with a variety of strategies. Discover things you can do now; including changes in lifestyle, stressmanagement techniques such as relaxation and exercise and the use of music or humour as coping strategies.

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September8, 2008 September23, 2008 November20, 2008 December 19, 2008

$399 CAD plus applicable tax

• Understand that stress is a positive, unavoidable part of everybody’s life
• Recognize the symptoms that tell you when you have “chronic stress overload”
• Identify those situations in your life that cause you the greatest stress
• Identify those actions which add to your stress
• Develop strategies for changing both the situations and the actions that can be changed
• Develop techniques for dealing with the situations and actions that can’t be changed

• What is stress?
• What are the symptoms of stress/burnout?
• What does stress cost our companies and its employees?
• Factors that impact on our ability to manage stress
• Stress management as an organizational project
• Organizational support and communication
• Stressmanagement as an individual initiative
• Nutrition, Exercise, Relationships, Relaxation
• De-stress techniques you can use right now

Government employees, managers, supervisors, team leaders, engineers, personal assistants.