Managing Workplace Anxiety - Melbourne
# Managing Workplace Anxiety Melbourne
## Course Outline
### Course Overview
Workplace stress one of Australia's largest work related challenges in a high pressure world In contemporary Business, workplace stress is now one of the Australian professionals' major concerns. This is a "soup to nuts" training that walks you and your staff through real world, evidence based methods for identifying, understanding, and treating anxiety in the workplace. Specifically created for team leaders and individual contributors, this programme tackles the most common issues facing people on a day to day basis, from presentation jitters, to work overload.
It's an understanding, solution oriented programme that treats anxiety as a human condition and gives you chance to use some solid tools against it. Attendees will gain insight into being able to discern normal stress at work from the kind that is a sign of problem anxiety patterns, and have a course of action to take in real workplace situations.
This isn't to say that all stress should be removed, that isn't realistic for any workplace. Instead, we get on with testing and developing safe ways for people to flourish in the middle of tough times. It's a practical training that ensures everything you learn can be used straight away at work.
### Curriculum Based Learning Outcomes
The learners will be able to at the end of this programme:
**Identify and Evaluate:** Identify the symptoms of workplace anxiety that people are experiencing in themselves and others and distinguish between healthy stress and detrimental patterns of anxiety that need to be addressed.
**Use Coping Mechanisms:** Practice findings to be effective for coping with anxiety symptoms at spicy in the moment in the workplace such as use of deep breathing, cognitive restructuring, and grounding techniques that are appropriate for professional settings.
**Communicate:** Have professional conversations about mental health issues with your managers, peers, and team members in a way that yields productive results.
**Boundaries:** Establish and protect healthy boundaries at work, which conserve one's mental health without limiting workplace duties or career advancement prospects.
**Foster Supportive Environments:** Learn how to lead from a place of psychological safety in which team members are able to discuss mental health problems early, before they reach a crisis state.
**Define Personal Action Plans:** Craft personalised plans for continued coping with anxiety that also fit a job's unique needs and office culture.
### What You Will Learn
**Module 1: Understanding Workplace Anxiety**
Typical anxiety triggers in Australian jobs
Chronic on the Job Stress and Its Implications on Mental and Physical Health
Differentiation between adaptive stress response and clinical anxiety
Socio cultural barriers to mental health in professional workplaces
**Module 2: Identify and Respond to Abuse CMD77c**
Self monitoring of anxiety symptoms and personal warning signs
Spotting anxiety in coworkers and team members
When to get professional advice vs. advice for self care
Developing their own check in, personal mental health systems
**Module 3: Practical Management Techniques**
High pressure tactics such as breathing and grounding exercises
Mindsets for coping with catastrophising
How to manage your time and prioritise your tasks to avoid feeling overwhelmed
These 3 Express Techniques Help to Overcome Anxiety Inside a conference room or on a stage at a business meeting, here are three physical strategies to help you out during a confrontation with anxiety:
**Module 4: Communication and Advocacy**
Vocational Rehabilitation Terminology on mentioning mental health services
Discussing concerns about workload and stress with supervisors
Supporting coworkers who are anxious without being invasive
Recording and accommodation of occupational causes of anxiety
**V. BUILDING RESILIENCE AND LONG TERM STRATEGIES**
Lifestyle resilience routines that are easy enough to do even when you are desperately swamped
Creating sustainable work life integration approaches
Creating networks both at work and in their personal lives
Dynamic self assessment and adaptation methods
**Module 6: Developing Supportive Team Environments**
How to Lead When Your Team Is Terrified
Creating a team culture where mental health is valued
Identifying and resolving workplace culture problems that are causing anxiety
Creating a safe environment in team dynamics
### Assessment and Application
Trainees will work through hands on exercises during the course such as creating an anxiety map for themselves, building strategy worksheets, and role playing real life scenarios. This is about actionable takeaways not about the theory.
### Concluding Remarks
For Australian professionals, this course offers real, use it right now resources for avoiding a 'tightrope' of workplace anxiety. PopupShop attendees walk away with the tools they need to tailor their approach, communicate better, and form healthier relationships over the mental health conversation in the workplace.
While there is no one size fits all solution the programme is aware that anxiety management is an ongoing skill building exercise, and does not happen once, it is a process. Sustainable, practical solutions that utilises existing structures of the workplace are best practices participants can implement and results that can be expected include enhanced performance and better health.
Most importantly, this training helps to de stigmatise mental health discussions in the workplace and provides the practical strategies to address the challenges constructively. The aim is an empowering self and career in good mental health, and to support others in achieving the same.