SkillSoft Spotlight Course of the Week ~ For Employees
Take a Deep Breath and Manage Your Stress
SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning that supports you in navigating complex challenges in personal and professional life, helps you to increase your effectiveness, and to improve your relationships. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.
This week's spotlight course is Take a Deep Breath and Manage Your Stress.
Take a Deep Breath and Manage Your Stress (22 min)
When you're constantly adding items to your never-ending to-do list, feeling overwhelmed at work and home, and finding your health and relationships negatively impacted, you are likely experiencing stress. Stress is produced by your own feelings and reactions to certain external events, rather than by the events themselves. But while you may not always be able to control the external events causing your stress, by applying mindfulness techniques, you can control your reactions to them. This course explains the physiological, behavioral, and psychological signs and symptoms of stress and where it can come from. It outlines strategies for maintaining work/life balance and managing stress. It also covers ways to change your responses to stress and make them more positive and how to use relaxation techniques and adopting mindfulness to help you focus.
- recognize how stress can negatively impact on your health
- recognize key concepts about stress
- identify the main characteristics and symptoms of burnout
- recognize examples of actions and strategies to cope with stress and prevent full-blown burnout
- sequence examples of the steps of the ABC model used to control stress
- use the ABC model to manage your reaction to a stressful situation and challenge irrational thoughts
TO LOGIN:
Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPortusing your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.
Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar.
Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.
Posted: May 1, 2020, 1:03 PM
