Organisational Stress Management Mastery™
Organisational Stress Management Course Features
SUBJECT
Organisational Stress Management
DURATION
2 Days
CERTIFICATION
ILM-Recognised
TRAINER
Nicholas C. Hill FCMI FIoL FIC
PARTICIPANTS
Leaders and Managers
DELIVERY
Open Scheduled • 1-2-1 • In-House Tailored
FORMAT
Classroom • Virtual Classroom • Hybrid
MATERIALS
Hard Copy Workbooks • Digital Workbooks
Instructor-Led Organisational Stress Management Training
Master Trainer Nicholas Hill
Nicholas C. Hill FCMI FIoL FIC is a seasoned master trainer and the creator of 68 ILM-Recognised courses. His training is high-impact and results-driven, presented in classroom and virtual classroom formats. Since 1996, he has delivered training for over 700 organisations, leading to team improvements of up to 234% in performance, 136% in efficiency, and 104% in productivity.
Organisational Stress Management Course Summary
Module 1
Executive Stress
Module 2
Stress-Strain Curves
Module 3
Occupational Stressors
Module 4
Stress Responses
Module 5
Team Mental Health
Module 6
Ergonomics Optimisation
Module 7
Team Stress Reduction
Module 8
Compassionate Organisational Culture
Participant Challenges
You face relentless workplace stress that drains productivity, morale, and focus. Unchecked pressure leads to chronic fatigue, rising absenteeism, and declining performance, leaving your team disengaged and overwhelmed. Stress-related conflicts escalate, creating tension and reducing collaboration. Without managing team stress, burnout spreads, increasing employee turnover and damaging your organisation’s reputation. Your people struggle with mental exhaustion, impacting decision-making and innovation. Failure to address stress weakens your leadership credibility, erodes trust, and results in costly mistakes. Ignoring these challenges puts long-term success at risk. Act now to prevent stress from undermining your team’s resilience and organisational stability.
Course Objectives
Designed and delivered by Nicholas Hill Academy Ltd, this course enables you to identify and manage workplace stress effectively, creating a healthier, more resilient team. You recognise the early signs of stress, preventing burnout, reducing absenteeism, and improving retention. You enhance morale, strengthen collaboration, and boost productivity by fostering a supportive work culture. Your ability to mitigate stress-related risks safeguards employee well-being, reduces turnover, and promotes engagement. As your organisation embraces proactive stress management, team performance stabilises, decision-making sharpens, and workplace tensions diminish, ensuring long-term success and a more motivated, high-performing workforce.
Day One
Preventing and Managing Team Stress™
Module 1: Executive Stress
Outcomes
• Take back control of your parasympathetic and sympathetic responses to stress • Understand how to maintain your diurnal rhythm to reduce overload and fatigue • Address your emotional, psychological, and physiological effects of stress
Syllabus
Autonomic Nervous System Regulation, Circadian Rhythm, Diurnal Patterns, Allostatic Load, Human Performance Degradation, Yerkes–Dodson Law, Job Demands-Resources Model, Psychosocial Hazards, Fatigue and Motivation Decline, Ego Depletion, Psychological Resilience
Module 2: Stress-Strain Curves
Outcomes
• Address your team’s hypo-stress, hyper-stress, and then encourage eustress • Become conscious of how stressors trigger different responses on the stress curve • Learn to continually adapt during the stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
Syllabus
Stress Response Mechanisms, Strain Adaptation Processes , General Adaptation Syndrome, Alarm Reaction Stage, Resistance Stage, Exhaustion Stage, Selye Model, Human Performance Curve, Hypo-Stress, Eustress, Hyper-Stress, Distress, Flow State, Positive Stress
Module 3: Occupational Stressors
Outcomes
• Identify the problematic stressors in your environment, policies, and responsibilities • Locate the various stressors in your management style, work relationships, and career • Manage all atypical working arrangements and prevent bullying or harassment
Syllabus
Occupational Stressors, Environmental Stressors, Organisational Stressors, Management Stressors, Responsibility Stressors, Relationship Stressors, Career Stressors, Social Stressors, Technological Stressors, Individual Stressors, Domestic Stressors
Module 4: Stress Responses
Outcomes
• Become conscious of stress indicators in your team members before it is too late • Differentiate between the various types of anxiety, panic disorders, and depression • Recognise and address the Type-A personality traits expressed by you and your team
Syllabus
Psychological Stress Responses, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobias, PTSD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Separation Anxiety, Social Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Dysthymia, Bipolar Disorder, Post-Natal Depression, Role Theory, Type-A Behaviour
Day Two
Preventing Team Fatigue and Burnout™
Module 5: Team Mental Health
Outcomes
• Be familiar with your mental health responsibilities as a senior manager or employer • Learn how stress reduces your team’s cognitive ability to make sound judgements • Recognise the various factors that contribute to an unhealthy work environment
Syllabus
Stress Prevention, Stress Rehabilitation, Mental Health and Safety, Job Design, Stress-Inducing Policies, Health and Welfare, HSE Standards, Environmental Factors, Physical Stressors, Chemical Stressors, Biological Stressors, Ergonomic Stressors, Cultural Factors
Module 6: Ergonomics Optimisation
Outcomes
• Evaluate your organisation’s person-machine interface and then address the stressors • Critique staff job design, including the sociotechnical factors, to prevent overload • Address your ‘design ergonomics’ to improve productivity through stress reduction
Syllabus
Optimising Ergonomics, Employing Ergonomics, Total Working System, Environmental System, Person-Machine System, Total Working System, Revamping Job Design, Balancing Job Demands, Socio-Technical Factors, Design Ergonomics, Workstation Ergonomics
Module 7: Team Stress Reduction
Outcomes
• Explore new ways to eliminate, reduce, and control stress in your organisation • Design a stress management action plan for your team and begin implementation • Create an in-house stress management programme, then measure team progress
Syllabus
Occupational Health Schemes, Recording Stressors, Measuring Stress, Monitoring Stress, Reviewing Stress, Problem-Centred Approach, Well-Being Approach, Employee-Centred Approach, CIPD Stress Management, Prevention Through Design, Special Needs
Module 8: Compassionate Organisational Culture
Outcomes
• Learn stress management best practices from the ‘100 Best Companies To Work For’ • Create strategies to optimise your team’s physical, emotional, and intellectual environment • Retain personnel by being familiar with employees’ demands for mental health policies
Syllabus
Compassionate Culture, Personal Growth, Wellbeing, Charity, Fair Deals, Physical Environment, Emotional Environment, Intellectual Environment, Releasing Pressure, Health Checks, Long-Term Sickness, Employee Guidance, Affirmative Action, Stress Audit
Organisational Stress Management Training Delivery
Open Scheduled Course
Develop Your Skills
Enjoy powerful and cost-effective learning and development from the comfort of your home or office. Benefit from our practical and relevant training content while interacting with our master trainer and like-minded delegates from other industries.
- Leaders and Managers
- 2 Days
- Virtual Classroom
1-2-1 Tailored Course
Master Your Skills
Solve your workplace problems in private and in confidence. Receive undivided personal attention and explore modules tailored to your needs. Schedule the training to suit your pace and calendar, then watch your knowledge and skills go through the roof.
- Management Level Tailored
- 2 Days • 4 Half Days • 8 Quarter Days
- Classroom • Virtual Classroom
In-House Tailored Course
Develop Your Team
Engage in team building and develop unity through shared goals that align your team’s thinking and behaviour. We facilitate your team discussions and tailor our modules, timings, and delivery style to your organisational vision, mission, and culture.
- Management Level Tailored
- 2 Days • 4 Half Days • 8 Quarter Days
- Classroom • Virtual Classroom
Organisational Stress Management Open Courses
Included Materials
- Certificate of Achievement
- Digital Interactive Workbooks
- Professional Leader Subscription
- Pre-Course Diagnostic Consultation
- Post-Course Results Consultation
- Post-Course Email Mentoring
Optional Materials
- ILM-Recognised Certificate
- Hard Copy Workbooks
- Hard Copy Leadership Journal
- Leadership Principles Merchandise
- Leadership Style Mapping
- Post-Course Leadership Coaching
Course Features
- Master Trainer
- 2 Days Training
- 09:00 - 17:00 GMT/BST
- Leaders and Managers
- 5 Delegates Capacity
- Virtual Classroom
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Start
15 May, 2025
End
22 Sep, 2025
- Organisational Stress Management Mastery
- 04 Places Remaining
£895
+VAT PER DELEGATE
Training Course Reviews
"Nicholas Hill is a very knowledgeable and passionate coach and trainer!"
M. Sunderland Operations Directo Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
"This course was too advanced for me, but it helped me to manage my time."
N. Brydon, Food and Beverage Manager The Elvetham Hotel Ltd
"Following your training, we are now turning around our business performance."
A. Panatti Sales Director Finish Creative Ltd
"The results achieved in this training are above and beyond what I was expecting."
S. Baker Managing Director Merritt & Baker Consultancy Ltd
"You positively changed my attitude toward leadership and management."
J. Mears General Manager Integrated Pathology Partnerships Ltd
"Outstanding and excellent feedback from our 42 delegates over four years."
O. Klochkova Chief Operations Officer Playson Ltd