Balance or Burnout? Your Choice!

Course Number:  088-PC
Recommended Duration: 1 Day

Intended Audience:  All Employees

Course Overview
Learn how to deal with your emotions appropriately and how to discover the belief systems that got you into or support your burnout so you can change your way of thinking and living, to one of enjoyment and balance, on and off the job.

Objectives
As a result of taking this course, you will:

• Examine your current status on a stress scale
• Discover how the mind works and how your decisions control your emotions
• Learn burn-out symptoms and signals
• Explore options to change stressful habits
• Develop a plan of action for creating balance in your life
• Learn how to support others in stress release and change

Prerequisites:  None

Topics

• How do you keep yourself stressed

• Speed of change and its impact on our lives

• Stress quiz - 12 part stress test

• Thoughts and emotions - the control factors

• Thinker-Thought-Reality - how belief systems are created - decision, proof, expectation

• The Creek Analogy - how emotion decisions are made

• Effect of suppressed emotions

• Minding the pressure cooker

• What do we do with pent-up emotions

• Burnout symptoms and signals

• Listening to “El Protecto”

• Meet your conscience/intuition

• Response column technique

• How El Protecto stole our joy

• The challenge of change

• Determine prime motivating factors

• 50 proven stress reducers

• Job stress - 6 causes, 3 symptoms, 5 actions

• The stress reduction checklist - review each point on the checklist with discussion  

• Stressed spelled backward is desserts

• Creating your plan for balance - assign action and dates to stressors

• Review stress symptoms checklist

• How to recognize stress in others

• Dealing with negative people

• How to support others in change