Understanding Stress and Performance

This lesson provides an overview of common sources of stress in the workplace, such as workload, role ambiguity, and interpersonal conflicts. It gives an insight into how stress affects performance and well-being, along with strategies for identifying and managing stress effectively.

This lesson helps differentiate between stressful situations and positive challenges in the workplace. It explores how shifting perspectives can turn stress into manageable challenges, enhancing performance and personal growth.

This lesson explains the relationship between personality and stress. It shows how different traits affect behavior and responses to stress. Learners will study the Big Five Personality Traits, Type A and Type B personalities, and other traits such as perfectionism, optimism, and pessimism. The lesson provides clear strategies to build resilience, develop coping skills, and handle stress effectively. Understanding these concepts will help learners manage challenges, work better with others, and improve their overall performance.

This lesson explores how leaders build resilient teams by developing their resilience and fostering it. Learners will gain insights into essential skills such as time management, delegation, prioritization, and adopting a growth mindset. It also provides strategies for reframing challenges as growth opportunities, setting clear expectations, strengthening the team’s capabilities, and creating psychological safety. By understanding these approaches, leaders can help their teams adapt to adversity, enhance collaboration, and maintain high performance in challenging situations.

This lesson examines the shift to remote working, its impact on workplaces, and its role in driving innovation and reshaping work-life dynamics. It explores trends such as digital transformation, highlights benefits including flexibility, autonomy, better work-life integration, and cost savings, and addresses challenges such as blurred boundaries, social isolation, and emotional exhaustion. The lesson provides simple steps to overcome these challenges and maintain work-life balance, helping learners adjust to the changing work environment.

This lesson examines how email communication contributes to workplace stress, including Work-Home Interference (WHI) and the Electronic Leash Effect. It explores how email overload affects well-being and productivity. Learners will gain strategies to manage email-related stress effectively, such as setting boundaries, batching emails, and scheduled email delivery.

This lesson explores self-care and its role in managing workplace stress and enhancing performance. It highlights the importance of sleep, exercise, continuous learning, and nutrition and emphasizes how intentional well-being practices improve resilience. Learners will identify effective self-care strategies to boost productivity, prevent burnout, and sustain long-term mental and physical health.