Professionals are under more stress than ever evidenced by increases in
demand for better services that are more efficient and thorough, higher
costs, reduced staffing, and diminishing resources. Many workers are
putting in longer hours and for less pay. From working overtime to
simply burning the midnight oil catching up on paperwork, work industry
puts a great deal of stress and fatigue on the average worker and their
relationships, including family. Many professionals bear witness to
workplace challenges that range from troublesome to traumatic. As a
result, high stress and burnout are major hazards of any profession.
This
seminar focuses on understanding each of these challenges. In addition
to defining and comparing these conditions, specific triggers will be
explored. Participants will gain awareness of key signs and symptoms of
stress and burnout, while learning how to manage stressors and their
consequences. Specific attention will be given to physical,
emotional/mental and behavioral symptoms.
Awareness training is a
key component to the seminar. Underlying beliefs about stress are
explored and other general signs and symptoms of burnout are explained.
Strategies
for management and prevention are shared, including mindfulness
training and behaviors that can help reduce the frequency, duration and
intensity of high stress and prevent burnout. Participants will have an
opportunity to create their own individualized management and prevention
plans.
Integrative Resilience Theory is a new and highly
effective platform from which to build, change and grow individuals,
teams, and entire organizations. A daily mindful "human technology" as
well as a philosophy for approaching
stress management and preventing
burnout, its value is immeasurable. Through understanding the role of
stress, personal and relational conflict, and overall adversity,
participants in this training will experience increased awareness while
learning strategies toward improved workplace relationships,
productivity, and morale. In addition, workers benefitting from these
strategies will experience a more valuable experience in work/life
balance.
Part one of the training focuses on the overall theory
of Integrative Resilience. Participants will learn about its etiology,
including major influencers of the development of this idea. A
comparison to other ideas will show how it is similar to and different
from other
stress management burnout prevention theories. Finally,
examples are shared showing how Integrative Resilience Theory fits in
the modern workplace environment.
In the second segment,
participants will move into the role of stress and adversity at work,
and what challenges each provides to individuals, work groups, and
companies/organizations. Internal and external triggers are explored
with regard to stressors, how they are mismanaged and what can be done
to implement resilience concepts discussed in the previous segment of
the training.
Two highly relevant areas of stress and adversity
are covered in the third segment. Numerous scholarly studies,
particularly in the field of healthcare and other service professions
note that burnout among workers is increasing at alarming rates.
Additionally, workplace and relationship conflict and are highly
researched areas and worthy of discussion when it comes to applied
Integrative Resilience. In this segment, participants will explore how
conflict and burnout lead to imbalance and what can be done to better
manage workers/employees through the Integrative Resilience model.
In
the final segment of the training, participants will learn applied
strategies for creating standout individualism and remarkable teamwork
using a work/life balance model that uniquely fits individual company
values and workplace structure. Optimal balance of teamwork and
individual effort is explored through seeking opportunity to ignite both
aspects in the workplace!
Participants will develop their own
original
stress management and burnout prevention program that can be
implemented in their specific workplace environment, using The
Integrative Resilience Model, inclusive of unique strategies and tools
for further building and growing a healthy business/organization.
Conclusion with summary and Q&A period.
Why you should attend
In
a world filled with growing responsibilities both at work and in the
home, individuals are finding increasing challenges when practicing
stress management skills. A recent survey noted that more than 50% of
workers spend more than 40 hours a week at work. Many are overworked and
overextended trying to earn a good living, while taking care of self
and others. With so much stress and adversity in today's workplace and
in life, success is often elusive.
Finding stress that cannot be
managed easily isn't tough these days. Too often workers are so stressed
and burned out that it's difficult to make lasting changes, as many are
barely keeping afloat. If you are a manager or director, not only are
you receiving stress from upper management. You may also experience the
high challenge of managing others who are overstressed and/or burned
out. This view of being "sandwiched" between two levels is all too
common in workplace managers. Other worker positions carry enormous
stress, such as the CEO, owner or board member who shoulders a great
deal of responsibility and stress on a daily basis.
One of the
most common stressors for CEO's is managing worry over having to reduce
the quality of life in a worker through reducing work hours, decreasing
pay, or even laying workers off due to financial issues in the company.
Productivity and work place conflict are other sources of stress that
can lead to organizational gridlock and/or poor company morale. When
such issues arise in your organization, many struggle to understand how
to find solutions right for their organization to bounce back and grow.
The list of issues triggering workplace stress looms even longer.
Discover a new approach to
stress management that is changing old
methods which long kept people in the same dark and negative cycle of
keeping one's head above water while trying not to drown in stress.
This
training aims to establish a foundation for building a solid and
long-term effective program for sustainable
stress management and
burnout prevention. Workers in all positions, at any level, and in most
industries will benefit from this training.
Areas Covered in the Session
- Integrative Resilience Theory
- Integration defined
- What is Resilience
- Integrative Resilience
- Etiology of Theory
- Comparisons with other models
- Why IRT?
- The Role of Stress/Adversity
- Adversity in the workplace
- Personal stress impacting work
- Stress response systems
- Stress management using IRT
- The High Cost of Burnout & Conflict
- Burnout - What it is and why it happens
- Signs/Symptoms
- IRT Burnout Prevention Strategies
- Types of Conflict - Intrapersonal vs. Interpersonal
- Where's Conflict - (Work, Home, Other)
- Diversity Factors
- Emotional Intelligence Impact on Conflict
- IRT Conflict Resolution Strategies
- Teamwork & Individual Effort
- Moving toward Integration
- Exploring Work/Life Balance
- From Activation to Aspiration
- Finding Your ZENS
- There is definitely an "I" in Team
- Summary and Closing Remarks
Who Will Benefit
- Managers
- Administrators
- Employers
- CEO's
- Employees
- COO's
- CFO's
- Professionals
- Skilled Laborers
- Educators
- Healthcare Workers
- Service Professionals
- Small Business Owners
- Fortune 500 Companies
- Sales Personnel
- School Teachers
- Mental Health Professionals
- Doctors
- Lawyers
- Construction Workers
- First Responders
- IT Managers
- Hotel/Restaurant Managers
- Air Traffic Controllers
- Entertainers
- Professional Sports Players/Coaches/Managers