Managing Pressure and Stress to Optimize Your Performance


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
People react to high pressure differently. Learning to cope with pressure and handling stress are very important, because you don’t want pressure to have a negative impact on your performance. In this course, you'll learn about managing stress and pressure, situations that trigger pressure, and how pressure can become stress. You'll also look at how stress affects you emotionally and physically, and how to respond to it. And you'll also learn strategies for managing stress by ensuring you have the right attitude, taking control under pressure, and using performance management to cultivate a ""success mentality."" You can then optimize your own performance, and prepare to cope with stressed colleagues.

Target Audience
Individuals who want to develop or refine their skills for performing under pressure

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.4

Lesson Objectives

Managing Pressure and Stress to Optimize Your Performance

  • identify the triggers of pressure in the workplace
  • categorize the symptoms of stress
  • identify the steps for managing reactions to stress
  • sequence the steps for changing your perception of a situation in order to reduce stress
  • recognize the steps for taking action in high-pressure situations
  • recognize actions for avoiding overanalysis and overconfidence
  • match work-style types to the reactions they exhibit when under pressure
  • recognize guidelines for dealing with stress in colleagues
  • Course Number:
    apd_07_a01_bs_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone