Stress management for business owners, directors & managers

Do you want to reduce your current stress?

Do you want to manage stress positively going forward and be more resilient to stress over time?

Do you want an insight into stress, its impact, symptoms and causes?

This course is a practical action oriented course designed to give you the tools to reduce your current stress and to enable you to manage stress positively going forward and to be more resilient to stress over time. 

This course aims to give you an insight into stress, its impact, symptoms and causes, as well as to give you practical steps to follow to reduce your current stress. The course will also give you a wealth of stress management tips and strategies to help you to tackle the root causes of your stress and to help you to manage stress more effectively going forward. As you go through the course you will be able to apply the learning and develop your own personalised stress plan. 

The course is designed to be practical and relevant to real life. It includes a straightforward process that you can follow to reduce your current stress and lots of ideas, tips and strategies as to how to reduce and manage stress. The course takes a holistic view of stress management with stress management strategies for all areas of your life. It is not a theoretical or academic course on stress.

Who is this course designed for?

This course is designed for you if you are a business owner, entrepreneur, director, executive, manager or professional:

* Who is currently finding it difficult to cope with high levels of stress at work or in your business. Whether you are feeling stressed and overwhelmed, you are going through a very stressful and challenging period or your stress has been building up over time, this course is for you.

* Wanting to learn more about stress management, how to manage stress positively at work and in your business and wanting to learn practical stress management tips and strategies. 

Please note if you are not a business owner, entrepreneur, director, executive, manager or professional but are looking for a general stress management course then I would recommend that you take my other course ‘Stress management for life: how to reduce & manage stress’ rather than this one as it will be more relevant to you. There is an overlap of content between the two courses so please choose one or the other, not both.

What are the course aims?

The course aims to:

* Give you an insight into stress, its impact, symptoms and causes.

* Show you a process that you can follow to reduce your current stress.

* Provide you with practical stress management tips and strategies to help you to tackle the root cause of your stress and to help you to manage stress positively going forward and to build your resilience to stress over time.

* Enable you to develop your own personalised stress plan during the course. 

What is included in the course?

The course has the following sections: 

* Introduction, including an introduction to the course and the tutor

* Stress, including what is stress and can stress be good for you?

* Reduce stress now, including a stress management process to reduce stress, the symptoms of stress, the causes of stress and taking action to reduce your stress

* Practical stress management tips and strategies, including a whole range of tips and strategies to help you tackle the root cause of your stress, to manage stress positively going forward and to build your resilience to stress over time.

* Your stress plan, including your own symptoms, causes, actions and strategies.

We have also included introductions and summaries throughout the course to help with learning.

The course is in short bite sized lectures and you can see the detailed course content in the course curriculum.

Developing your own personalised stress plan

There are also worksheets to complete as you go through the course to develop your own personalised stress plan. These include identifying the symptoms and the causes of your stress, as well as actions to take to reduce your current stress and strategies to follow to manage stress positively going forward and to build your resilience to stress over time. You will need to allow additional time in addition to the duration of the videos to complete the worksheets.

What will you cover on the course and what will you learn?

As you go through the course you will be looking at your own stress, how it is manifesting, the impact on you, your work and your business, the causes of your stress, how to manage stress and stress management tips and strategies.

By the end of the course you will have a better understanding of stress, understand the root causes of your stress, have an action plan for reducing your stress levels and have stress management strategies in place to support you to manage stress positively going forward and to build your resilience to stress over time.

Even if you are not stressed at the moment you will have the opportunity to review you, your work and your business and to decide on actions to take to support you in managing stress positively going forward and building your resilience to stress over time.

Important notes & more about the course

If you are already very knowledgeable about stress and stress management, this course may not be for you. It includes an insight into stress (including what is stress and whether stress can be good for you), its impact, symptoms and causes, a stress management process to reduce stress, practical stress management tips and strategies and an opportunity to develop your own stress plan, some or all of which you may already know a lot about.  

By signing up for this course you gain lifetime access so you can watch the lectures at your convenience on your computer, tablet or smart phone.

You can choose to complete the whole course or just watch the lectures that are most relevant to you, whichever you prefer. You can watch each lecture in full or just the elements you want to watch and you can stop a lecture at any point if you want to study the content in more detail.

You can watch the lectures at the pre assigned speed or you can choose to speed up or slow down the lectures to suit your own preference.

There are English text captions available on this course which you can choose to see or turn off.

Student feedback on this course

"Clear and practical course with great ideas that you can apply in real life straight away. Highly Recommended."

"A very professional and helpful course on understanding stress, what it is and how to manage the causes with sound advice on moving forward. A great place to start with an important message to ask for help when you need it."

"This is very practical, enjoyable, easy to understand and real results oriented course!"

"The course was very useful for me. It made me think more about stress and gave some valuable insights into how to manage myself better. Overall an excellent course."

"As a busy business owner used to dealing with stress, I thought I knew all about my stress and what caused it. I was wrong! The course helped me identify new sources of stress and gave me tips to better manage it all. Have recommended the course to others. Well worth taking the course whether you're feeling stressed right now or not. Thank you."

"This is a very easy to follow and concise course. Great course that I can follow in bite size chunks. The tutor is very clear and knowledgeable too. Very easy to watch on mobile app which means I can catch up in stages."

"This is a great course to explore all the aspects of stress, how it seeps into your life and affects your performance. It's very informative, the course tutor is very knowledgeable and provides good clear information and a lot to think about. The worksheets are clear and help to focus what are the underlying causes and as you go through the lectures you are able to understand your own personal stress vulnerabilities and ways to address these. Lots of tips and ideas and Liz gives a plethora of options on how to manage stress in your business. Thank you."

"This course material from Liz is so refreshing and novel, it makes you want to learn more. It is easily applicable to business and there are small things you can try each day, as well as grasping the bigger picture. Thanks Liz, love it!"

"This is an excellent course that helps you to understand the effects stress can have on you as an individual as well as those around you. It's simple to follow with exercises to help you develop a plan."

"I found the Stress management course extremely helpful - as a Director of an SME I often find I am pulled in many directions and struggle to prioritise which leads to anxiety and a feeling of not 'being on top' of my workload - the information and exercise really help to navigate my way and focus my efforts at the same time understand ways I can handle the inevitable stress incurred from running a business. I would highly recommend the course to anyone - even if you think you handle stress well theres always room for improvement!"

"Clear and concise, I really like the way the course has broken down such a broad topic into bitesize chunks. In particular, it is focussed on stress within the workplace and how to help senior business leaders manage it for both themselves and others around them. This is something I haven't found with other stress-related courses."

"A very professional and helpful course on understanding stress, what it is and how to manage the causes with sound advice on moving forward. A great place to start with an important message to ask for help when you need it."

"What a great course, there's nothing it doesn't cover!"

"I love the course and I believe all the tips are very useful for me."

"Very good presentation, tips, and helpful advice."

"The course reminded me that stresses can come from big or small situations and can be at work or home, business or personal. it also offers ways to minimize stresses such as prioritizing, setting goals, dont be a perfectionist, be well prepared, be decisive, don't over think, and ask for help if it is necessary. I like that it discusses current events such as the COVID19 and coping with it."

"Prior to taking the course, I never realized that I was not properly prepared for Stress in the Workplace. I did have a couple of stress reducing strategies, not enough to handle all of that working a government job supplies. I feel good about how I will address work related stresses, moving forward. thank you"

"Enjoyed the content. The animation made it engaging."

Good luck

Good luck with the course and I hope you find it invaluable.