Managing Workplace Anxiety

# Managing Workplace Anxiety

## Course Outline

What if your security and purpose is now your very fear? How many mornings have you opened your eyes and dreaded the walk through those office doors, your mind already spinning with the potential disasters of the day before you've even had a cup of coffee?

Is it possible that what troubles you is not a sign that you are failing as a person, but rather that you are responding in a natural way to unnatural amounts and types of pressure at work? What if I were to tell you that some of Australia's most high performing professionals have been on this journey and emerged with a sense of confidence and freedom?

## Course Overview

This full scale training program is targeted towards the fast rising workplace anxiety phenomenon in Australian workers regardless of industry sector. Through evidence based techniques and hands on sectional practice, participants will build a personal toolkit that helps them manage anxiety triggers, build resilience and perform at peak under pressure.

The training integrates psychological theory and practice with real life office examples and gives you care formulas to use straight away without taking the time out of the office. They will be taught how to tell the difference between healthy stress and harmful anxiety, and to build good long term coping strategies.

## Learning Outcomes

Upon developing through this course, learners will be able to:

Determine and analyse personal cause of anxiety in their work situation.

Practise immediate stress reduction during times of maximum stress

Create strategies that will allow your mind to recuperate from constant overwhelm

Set healthy professional boundaries and still have colleagues who want to sit next to you at lunch.

Learn how best to deal with the difficult and potentially contentious parts of the program

Develop an individual action plan for consistent stress management and career development

Prove you can think under pressure.

Use recovery strategies to balance work and life and avoid burnout

## Course Modules

### Module 1: Understanding Workplace Anxiety

Distinguishing between stress and anxiety

Typical causes of workplace anxiety in Australian business settings

The cost of chronic stress at work to the individual, Organisation, and society

Self awareness tools for recognising your personal anxiety format

### Module 2: Immediate Response Techniques

Evidence based breathing and grounding techniques

4 Cognitive Reframing Techniques to Manage Anxious Thoughts

Physical ways to deal with anxiety symptoms in the workplace

Workplace strategies to manage panic on the job

### Module 3: The Management of Your Workload and Your Time

Frameworks for prioritising when you have too much to do

Delegation tactics and communication with bosses

Apps to help you stress less and organise better

Creating realistic timelines and keeping expectations in check

### Module 4: Professional Boundaries and Communication

Assertive Communication Assertive assertive=) Communication say you're doing Law and Psychology as if you wear a badge of damn honour or a doctors degree and you will be reported to Davis.

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Managing demanding colleagues and supervisors

Disengaging from workplace drama emotionally

### Course 5: Resolving Conflicts and Tough Conversations

Preparation strategies for challenging discussions

De escalation techniques for heated situations

Anxiety in performance review and meetings.

Gain confidence in public speaking and presentation skills

### Module 6: Recovery and Sustainability

Sleep hygiene for anxious professionals

Transition between work and personal time rituals

Create networks of support at work and outside of work

Long term strategies for career resilience

## What You Will Learn

### Practical Skills:

Fast anxiety relief exercises you can do discreetly in any office environment

How To Get Work Done When Your Workload Is Intense And Overwhelming

Business communication and boundary setting for when you get paid to communicate.

Stress reducing (as opposed to stress inducing) means of resolving conflict

### Personal Development:

Self awareness strategies to identify anxiety warning signals

Cognitive techniques for addressing anxious thoughts and worst case scenarios

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Long term recovery methods to store up your energy and enthusiasm over time

### Professional Applications:

Facilitation methods to manage anxious participants

Confidence building presentation techniques rather than stress inducing ones

Email and communication tactics to help relieve workplace stress

Leadership strategies to address stress of team members and for creating a supporting environment

## Assessment and Certification

Participants will engage in hands on skill practice, role playing, and will develop their individualised anxiety hierarchy. Assessment comprises peer feedback sessions, self reflection tasks, and role play of skills in a simulated workplace setting.

## Course Delivery Options

Face to face workshops available in Perth Interactive group sessions

Delivered online for complete flexibility and available across Australia

Corporate packages for group based training sessions available

One on One sessions for customised help

## Concluding Remarks

Shouldn't you take back your career confidence and finally feel peace in your job? This course offers practical tools and tips on how to turn workplace anxiety, often seen as a career limiting condition into manageable background noise.

Attendees depart with practical tools they can put into action immediately, a set of ongoing supportive resources and most importantly the understanding that anxiety doesn't have to rule their professional trajectory. The emphasis is on empowerment, application, and sustainable transformation that is applied to the development of job performance as well as personal performance.

It is through these data driven strategies and practical applications that professionals also learn that workplace anxiety is not a life sentence but rather a temporary challenge that can be successfully managed when armed with the proper tools, as well as the proper mindset.