Beating Stress!

The Small Group Mentoring Program

This specialised Small Group Stress Management Training Program assists teams and individuals in managing increasingly complex workplaces and workplace challenges.

Research shows that individuals and teams that can demonstrate skills that reduce stress and strengthen resilience to stress have increased capacity to:

• Learn
• Focus
• Access relevant memory
• Improve decision making and big picture thinking
• Effectively mediate emotion
• Improve interpersonal relationships

When individuals and teams operate at reduced stress levels, they tend to be healthier and happier which in turn contributes to increased productivity and decreased absenteeism in the workplace.

The Small Group Stress Management Training Program offered by Saluté Consulting takes a cognitive, physical and nutritional approach to strengthening and maintaining personal and workplace resilience to stress. We draw on leading-edge research developments in each of these key areas, with a large portion of our work being informed by developments and practices in sports psychology, and the positive psychology movement – the study of things people do ‘right’ to maintain high levels of optimism, health, effectiveness, verve and vitality.

Outcomes

Some major outcomes of the Beating Stress Small Group Mentoring Program include improvements in:

• Concentration, focus, memory, decision making etc.
• Innovation and big picture thinking
• Mental energy and alertness
• Performance and productivity
• Work-life balance
• Use of positive emotion
• Sleep patterns
• Physical energy
• Weight management
• Health, verve and vitality
• The ability to switch off and leave work at work
• Interpersonal relationships
• Self-esteem

At the end of the program participants will have created and implemented an action plan for:

• Maintaining their ideal work-life balance
• Renewing and maintaining mental and physical energy reserves
• Setting and achieving personal and professional objectives.

This program is designed for busy teams. It is structured to run for two hours once a week for six weeks. The six-week format has the advantage of providing for newly introduced theories and techniques to be converted into sustainable long-term positive habits. Topics include but are not limited to:

A Cognitive Approach

• Developing and utilising positive self-talk skills
• The ABCs of an optimistic explanatory style
• Setting and achieving short and long term objectives
• Meditation for calm and cognitive awareness
• The development and utilisation of rapid relaxation skills for endurance and recovery
• Identifying and going with your signature strengths

A Physical Approach

• Deep relaxation skills for maintaining mental clarity and physical energy
• The practice and utilisation of breath control
• A personal plan for improved health and cognitive capacity by improving fitness
• Skills for switching off and improved sleep
• Balancing work and down-time for maximum efficiency and performance

A Nutritional Approach

• An individual food plan for sustained energy and performance
• When the going gets tough: The role of nutrients
• The elements and benefits of good weight management

The Small Group Mentoring Program is supported by a workbook and two CDs.