Workplace Stress
Facilitator Reproducible Guided Self-Exploration Activities
In today’s economy, almost everyone feels workplace stress. Even the perfect job has stressful deadlines and other seemingly unreasonable expectations. While a bit of workplace stress is expected, even motivating, too much stress can interfere with productivity and motivation. It can impact employee (and employer) mental, emotional, and physical health.
People experience stress in the workplace in three primary ways:
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Stress generated from within a person
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Stress generated from the work environment
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Stress from a poor job fit.
Ignoring these sources of stress can lead to accidents in the workplace, injuries, and even more stress. Stress from one of these sources can be challenging to overcome, but workplace stress from more than one of these sources can be debilitating.
The Coping with Stress in the Workplace Workbook provides assessments and self-guided activities to help participants learn valuable skills for understanding and coping with the various forms of workplace stress.
The four chapters include:
This workbook is also available in PDF eBook format, making it simple to store on your computer or mobile device and access with a PDF viewer. The PDF format allows you to easily print copies of the activities and worksheets during therapy and counseling sessions.
Coping with Stress in the Workplace Card Deck
Need a creative way to start your session? Use the Coping with Stress in the Workplace Card Deck. The open-ended questions will break the ice and stimulate conversation. Use them alone or in conjunction with the corresponding page in the book.
Sample Questions:
What are the differences between external and internal stress in the workplace? Give some examples of each.
To put yourself in a good frame of mind before you go to work, what relaxing techniques can you use to start each day?
With what types of people do you compete in the workplace? How does this help to motivate you? How does it lead to stress?
