Effective Stress Management for IT Professionals

Stress plays key role in everybody’s life, and its importance is much more significant in IT professionals. Effective stress management helps you to be in better control of life, so you can be happier, healthier, and more productive. The ultimate goal of effective stress management is a balanced life, with time for both professional work and personal life. An effective stress management will keep you cool, relaxed and resilient while dealing with real time challenges raised out of stress.

This course takes a systematic and practical approach for stress management, highlighting both pros and cons of stress in IT professional’s life. It also enables the students with application of stress management techniques in real life case studies for achieving more productivity and performance levels to boost their careers.

There are five sections in the course. Section-1 provides an introductory base along with real time stressful scenarios. Section-2 takes through the scientific background of the stress, effects of stress, detection, avoidance, prevention and treatment methods. Section-3 explains different stress management techniques, introducing stress threshold, and various techniques for effective management. Section-4 applies the learned techniques for the practical cases introduced in section-1. Some additional resources for stress management are provided along with a stress measurement questionnaire in section-5.

This course will approximately take one and half hour with audio and video material and also provides references and other materials available from internet that can be handy in stress management.