Managing Workplace Anxiety - Brisbane
Managing Workplace Anxiety Brisbane
Course Outline
Overview
The pace of today's business world means we're too often allowing anxiety to take a hold in our Australian workplaces. This class teaches you how to address core practical issues with the challenges of stress, overwhelm, and anxiety in the workplace. Based on real life experiences from all types of Business around Brisbane, participants receive practical tools and strategies to change their relationship with workplace stress.
The program focuses on practical, evidence based skills that can be taken into practice right away. Attendees will also develop an understanding of healthy stress that improves function versus harmful stress, which negatively affects mental, physical, and emotional wellness. Participants will create personal action plans to address work related sources of anxiety through interactive activities and exercises.
This class is for all levels of professionals who are interested in developing greater mental resilience and improving their performance under pressure and health in workplace dynamics. The presentation jitters, the stresses of deadlines and how to reach them, difficult colleagues... All whom you will be able to identify, and learn how to deal with.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Identify and Assess Anxiety Triggers
Know the warning signs of office anxiety
Separate beneficial stress responses from unhelpful anxiety patterns
Do personal anxiety audits to determine workplace triggers specific to you
Evaluate the effects of anxiety on job performance and decision making
Implement Immediate Stress Management Techniques
Use quick calming techniques for stress on the spot
Apply evidence based breathing and grounding skills in the moment
Plan ahead for trigger situations
Develop personal "stress toolkits" for acute episodes of stress
Build Long term Resilience Strategies
Develop healthy habits for daily stress prevention
Learn how to use cognitive reframing to help challenge negative thoughts
Develop practical and achievable goal setting that diminishes overwhelm
Develop mental control skills for consistent performance
Enhance Communication and Boundary Setting
Guide challenging conversations with confidence and clarity
Articulate workload concerns with supervisor well
Set up good boundaries around what is expected, and when is availability
Practising to be assertive without causing conflict in the workplace
Tame the Avalanche: How to Manage Your Information Overload and Workplace Demands
Install email and communications organisation services
Demonstrate ability to prioritise during busy times
Build sustainable systems that avoid burnout
Formulate anxiety coping related time management plans
Address Imposter Syndrome and Self Doubt
Identify and confront patterns of imposter syndrome
Developing true confidence through skills and accomplishments
Learn how to advocate for yourself for job growth
Forge professional support systems
What You Will Learn
Session 1: Recognising workplace anxiety Understand when anxiety protects or detracts from effectiveness, most likely triggers for Australian workplaces, and physiological and psychological responses to stress. Participants will take anxiety tests and start monitoring personal patterns.
Session 2: F.A.S.T.E.R. F.A.S.T.E.R stands for quick intervention strategies such as controlled breathing, grounding activities and cognitive interrupt strategies. Role play such tactics through simulations of workplace scenarios and create individual response plans.
Session 3: Communication/Conflict Learn not only how to have hard conversations around setting boundaries with colleagues/supervisors and professional challenge, but also about workload. Learn how to play office politics without sacrificing your sanity.
Session 4: Resilience Building Over the Long Run Establish practices for enduring well being, learn how to manage stress and practice cognitive reframing, and increase your emotional intelligence for better work relationships. Develop personal support systems and prevention plans.
Session 5: Implementation and Maintenance Customised action plans, strategies to overcome obstacles, and accountability designs for sustained, long term success. Formulate plans for coping with setbacks and sustaining change over time.
Course Resources
Everybody gets full workbooks with assessment instruments, practice activities and reference materials. Online resources are guided audio exercises, workplace practice scenarios and support for further learnings.
Summary
Managing workplace anxiety doesn't necessarily mean getting rid of stress altogether, but learning how to function effectively and well while working together with natural stress responses. The class offers pragmatic solutions to workplace challenges to be used right away on the job.
Individual skill focused activities are balanced with approaches that are systemic to well being in the workplace. Attendees walk away with a strong understanding of their own anxiety roadmaps, a skill box of tested interventions and the confidence to be the change makers they want to be in their work.
This is a critical feature, as this course understands that managing work anxiety is something you do consistently, not a task you check off your to do list. Participants can sustain their progress and continue strengthening their resilience over the course of their careers by establishing sustainable skills and support structures. It's not about being perfect but learning to become more competent and confident in working with any of the challenges you'll face on the job.