Embracing Stress
Challenge
In a multinational technology company people are faced with 200 emails a day, high workloads, uncertainty, and a fast pace of change are causing high levels of stress throughout the organization.
The HR department wants to train employees on all levels in new strategies on how to deal with stress effectively to increase productivity in a sustainable way.
Our collaboration
- 7 workshops
- 105 participants
- All levels
- Language: English
- Format: Face-to-face
Based on new neuroscience research, this program offered revealing insights about stress and more effective and healthier strategies for dealing with stress.
In addition, this knowledge was mixed with exercises that allow participants to experience the topics in their own skin, turning the workshop into an interactive and participatory experience.
Results
- Participants experienced a complete change in how they perceive and feel about stress resulting in a more positive attitude towards stress: From “stress is bad for me” to “I can use stress as my ally to achieve my goals”.
- Realizing that they can use stress to their advantage left them feeling empowered and more confident in their capability to cope with stress.
- They learned 4 simple and highly effective cognitive strategies about how to use stress to their advantage, leading to better thinking, decision making and problem solving.
- Participants came up with practical action steps and left hopeful and highly motivated to put them into practice.
Participants' feedback
What will be different as a result from having taken this program?
- A radical change in the way I think and face things
- Knowing that the key aspect of managing stress is our way of perceiving it gives me a lot of confidence
- I will stop avoiding stress to try to live stressful situations in a positive way
- More positive attitude towards work and better support from my team to manage stress
- I'm going to stop complaining about things and go for them
- Be more relaxed in stressful situations
- Not feeling guilty when I feel paralyzed in stressful situations, knowing that it is a logical reaction and knowing how to get out of it
- I'm going to stop avoiding stress and start using it.
- Mejor capacidad de afrontar el estrés
- Think more positively about stress
- Better ability to cope with stress
- Mejor capacidad de tratar con temas complejos y sacar ventaja de situaciones difíciles
- Better ability to cope with stress
- Better likelihood of dealing with stressful situations productively
