Managing Workplace Anxiety Training - Melbourne

Managing Workplace Anxiety Course Outline

By Dana Harris, Business Adviser

Course Overview

The modern Australian workplace is fast paced and anxiety has become an unwanted friend to many professionals. This in depth programme reflects the fact that job related fears are not an individual problem, they are a Business problem that affects productivity, team effectiveness and organisational performance. Using techniques they can use in their own careers and experiences of how it's helped me and others, join me in breaking down how to turn anxious energy into successful focused performance & building career spanning resilience.

This is a programme that goes beyond just a concept to include tools that you can use right away in your own workplace. When you're either trying to cope with anxiety or you've got team members that you need it to be more effective and help them work through stress management in the workplace, this service has answers for real problems that do not overstep professional boundaries and empowers mental health.

Curriculum Based Learning Outcomes

Once this training is finished, participants will have the ability to:

Know your anxiety triggers There are personal patterns of anxiety and early signs when anxiety is beginning to intrude at work.

Use Crisis Communication Skills: Practice and apply specific professional anxiety reducing techniques and phrases to use when in a crisis situation

identify Productive vs. Destructive Stress: Recognise that stress can be positive (helping to meet a deadline), as well as negative (decreasing functionality)

Reframe Anxious Thoughts: Learn to change the way you think and what you do by using effective, evidence based techniques for managing anxiety.

Share Workplace Requirements: Ask for accommodations for work anxiety discussions while maintaining professionalism

Establish Sustainable Prevention Measures: Day to day routines that help build resiliency and prevent the accrual of anxiety

Support team staff: Awareness and creation of an environment that "uplifts" rather than "treads upon" confidence, Promoters of "oneness" of people rather than "division" among people.

What You Will Learn

Module 1: Understanding Workplace Anxiety

Normal work stress vs anxious in the clinic

What workplace anxiety looks like

The economic rationale for mental health in the workplace

Personal evaluation of anxiety, triggers and identification of the triggers.

Module 2: Immediate Response Strategies

Fast reset methods for when the pressure is on

The open office friendly breathing exercises

Staying rooted for presentations and meetings

Work Your workplace's anxiety attack emergency plan

Module 3: Professional: Cognitive Restructuring

Recognising and combating Anxious Thinking Patterns

Converting worry into productive planning

Building confidence through evidence based thinking

Developing realistic workplace expectations

Module 4: Performance Under Pressure

Turning nervous energy into peak performance

Preparation strategies for high stakes situations

Recovery techniques after stressful events

Building long term stress tolerance

Module 5: Communication and Boundaries

Speaking with supervisors about mental health based needs

Maintaining professional limits without seeming to resist

Advocating for reasonable workplace accommodations

Maintaining privacy while seeking support

Module 6: Preventive & Lifestyle Incorporation

Everyday practices to help you cope with anxiety

How to find work life balance as a super busy person

stress reduction tools for those on tight schedules

Creating supportive workplace cultures

Module 7: Team Leaders: How To Support Anxious Workers

Recognising anxiety symptoms in staff

Having good conversations and not being creepy

Creating psychologically safe work environments

Referral for Professional Help When and How

Legal considerations and workplace policies

Training Methodology

This programme integrates interactive workshops, exercises, case studies, and group discussions. Participants will learn skills in practical work based scenarios and return to their workplace with a set of individual strategies. The training is focussed on Working with discretion and professionalism, everything learnt can be carried out without drawing the wrong type of attention at work.

Target Audience

Individual professionals experiencing workplace anxiety

Team leads and managers with staff struggling with anxiety

HR Pros Creating Mental Health Programmes

Companies dedicated to employee health, and productivity

Duration and Format

Full Programme: 2 day intensive workshop

Executive Version: 1 day condensed programme

Team Sessions: Half day Workshops for certain Departments

Check in: Monthly optional tune up calls

Concluding Remarks

Controlling workplace anxiety isn't about getting rid of all stress, it's about developing tools you can use to rise to the occasion while keeping your mental health intact and your professional reputation unhurt. This training offers concrete, evidence based tools that work in the real world, from the C suite to the break room.

Delegates will feel more confident in managing challenges faced at work, become more resilient throughout their career and learn how to support colleagues facing the same issues. The programme is mindful of the Australian work culture and brings up to date ways of handling mental illness which helps maintain and interest both individual's and Businesses.

Whether you're wanting strategies for yourself or wanting to support an entire team, this training provides you with the tools, techniques, and the confidence to turn workplace anxiety from a career limiting force to a piece of your professional evolution. You'll walk away not only better prepared to survive the pressure of the workplace, but to flourish in it.