We all have to face and deal with professional stress through our career a way or the other. This is true regardless of the size of our company, its business performance or our position. So, let us ask you a few questions here: When was the last time that you had reassessed your EPIC limits?Who are the members of your Personal Advisory Board?How much can OsCAR help you manage the next critical discussion with your boss or key customer?Have you clearly set your sanity zone?If you don’t know what to answer to these questions, our course will surely help you to learn how to better handle your work stress. About the course contentOur course has been designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of work stress management in a simple and pragmatic approach. From a practical definition of stress, the identification of its impacts and its sources, to the discovery and exploration of real-life proven coping strategies, we will navigate you to what we see as essential concepts and coping techniques related to professional stress. Our goal is to set you up for a work-stress reduction journey on the long-term. To enrich your learning experience, we have carefully designed self-reflection and fictional case study assignments that will allow you to prepare or deepen the lectures’ content. And to extent your learning journey far beyond the course itself, we have also prepared a one-page executive summary and a special last assignment calling for transformative actions on the long run. Finally, we strongly believe that everyone of us has wisdom to share. So, we definitely encourage you, as for every of our students, to share with us your feedback on how the course has helped you reach your goals. We are also excited each time we get additional experiences of positive coping strategies from our students or each time we hear their success stories in relation to personal development or professional stress management. And, of course, we always welcome broader inputs on how to enrich or improve our class. About the course formatAs everything in life is about learning and experimenting, we have decided to deliver this course in voice-over video presentations, featuring Bruno, our course designer and main instructor (encognize founder & CEO), as well as Alicia and Hugo, our two virtual instructors who will bring a bit of diversity to our course delivery. Although we have put a lot of attention to our presentations, not everything is perfect, so be tolerant. The most important point for us remains obviously that you end the course feeling empowered and equipped to better handle your work stress. Behind the scene. To ensure the quality and the relevancy of our course, we have selected our lecture contents using: the study of academic work and researches in cognitive sciences and social psychology the results and feedback of both our workshops and mentoring sessions related to work stress management the direct inputs on professional stress from employees and their managers from various companies and countries the outcomes of workgroups and panel discussions focused on work stress and on diversity & inclusion topics Bruno’s first-hand and long experience of applying the various coping strategies introduced in this course"Your work-stress reduction journey starts here. So, don’t wait!" - Bruno, your course designer and main instructora course by encognize. wisdomseed
