Online Stress eLearning Training

Better Public Speaking- A Low Stress Approach The course leads you to use proven methods in becoming a more effective verbal communicator. It is comparable to 3-credit, 8- week courses costing $700. more...

How To Master Personal Career Course description -- Much of one's professional success is a function of personal skills that relate to professional activities, such as interviewing for a new job, balancing work and family, and managing stress. The 10 courses in this bundle develop personal competencies that will support your employees' career aspirations and enhance their effectiveness in their private lives. IMPORTANT NOTE: more...

How To Master Staying Positive Course description -- Today's fast-paced and competitive work environment is loaded with inconvenience, frustration, and even chaos. Maintaining a positive attitude and outlook has never been toughera or more important. The How to Master Staying Positive bundle is first aid for the stressed and stretched. Its courses provide guidance on managing stress, dealing with burnout and anger, time more...

Managing Stress ... in this course will help you understand and diagnose the stress in your life, identify the stressors you can and cannot control, and assess your readiness to make changes. There are methods to help you develop a systematic approach to eliminate stressors, manage your time, and implement short-term and long-term coping mechanisms. Youa ll develop a plan of action and learn how to avoid or more...

Aromas Weight Loss Discover Healthy Effective Ways to Lose Weight Effortlessly Discover how to combine massage, diet, stress reduction and aromatherapy in your efforts to lose weight. This is not a restrictive diet program, but recommendations for how to change your lifestyle in a natural and healthy way. more...

Time Management Using Microsoft Outlook 2002 The course is designed to show students how to use Microsoft Outlook 2002 to plan their time. The scope of the course includes understanding time management theory/philosophy, handling stress, developing a system of organization, identifying priorities, creative problem solving, and timing teamwork. more...

Organizing Your Workspace ...nization hinders work performance and creates feelings of stress and anxiety. By learning to organize your workspace, you can reach better levels of performance. This course will identify techniques for organizing your work areas, shelves, drawers, and files. It will also give you tips for maintaining this organization as well as giving suggestions for managing your time and schedule. IMPORTANT more...

Managing Yourself : Dealing with Stress Today's manager needs leadership skills. Today's manager must be able to shape people into effective working units ...called teams ...and lead them to success. However leading a team of people and juggling priorities and deadlines can cause you stress. As a leader you need to recognise whether you or your team are suffering from stress, identify what's causing that stress and take action to reduce more...

Phone Skills : Handling Angry Callers In today's world the phone dominates business communications. You can buy, sell, research new markets, provide quality customer service and make impressions that last using the telephone. This course will help you use the phone naturally and well. It will help you stay in control and reduce your stress levels when you're dealing with angry callers over the phone, through effective communication more...

Recognising Stress Series: The Sources of Stress People are working under more and more pressure... whether the cause is difficult colleagues, priorities and deadlines, or just life in general. A little pressure can help us perform, to achieve our goals. But too much pressure and the cracks begin to show: we suffer stress, performance falls; we become, literally, sick of work. more...

Recognising Stress Series: The Effects of Stress People are working under more and more pressure... whether the cause is difficult colleagues, priorities and deadlines, or just life in general. A little pressure can help us perform, to achieve our goals. But too much pressure and the cracks begin to show: we suffer stress, performance falls; we become, literally, sick of work. Stress can manifest itself in a wide variety of different symptoms - more...

Recognising Stress Series: Your Reaction to Stress People are working under more and more pressure... whether the cause is difficult colleagues, priorities and deadlines, or just life in general. A little pressure can help us perform, to achieve our goals. But too much pressure and the cracks begin to show: we suffer stress, performance falls; we become, literally, sick of work. To cope with stress effectively you need to maintain a balance more...

Coping with Stress Series: Short-Term Coping Strategies People are working under more and more pressure... whether the cause is difficult colleagues, priorities and deadlines, or just life in general. We all need a certain degree of pressure, and pressure can have positive effects - deadlines, confrontations, competition - all add depth and colour to our lives. But they can also lead to stress. Even if you think you can cope, sudden and unexpected more...

Coping with Stress Series: Long-Term Coping Strategies ...Stress management requires commitment. You will need time, discipline and willpower to succeed; and it comes with a health warning - it may change you for good, into a better, more confident person with a new outlook on life. While you may have coping skills to manage low or average levels of pressure, when the pressure starts rising and you feel that stress is taking a toll on your life, it's more...

Coping with Stress Series: Your Attitude to Stress People are working under more and more pressure... whether the cause is difficult colleagues, priorities and deadlines, or just life in general. We all need a certain degree of pressure, and pressure can have positive effects - deadlines, confrontations, competition - all add depth and colour to our lives. But they can also lead to stress. But you can control your reaction. How you perceive more...

Coping with Stress Series: Dealing With Stress in Others People are working under more and more pressure... whether the cause is difficult colleagues, priorities and deadlines, or just life in general. Stress can cause serious problems at work when work is disrupted due to sickness, or people pass their stress around the office. Stress in one person can lead to stress in other staff who then have to cover for their colleague. more...

Effective Email Series: Managing Your E-mail Unlike written communication, e-mail can arrive at any time of the day, demanding your attention. The increasing volumes of e-mail are creating stress and overload for today?s business workers. Controlling what you receive is a major step towards managing e-mail, and even people who receive relatively few e-mails a day may not always cope with them effectively. more...

Excellence in Service: Working with Upset Customers In Excellence in Service: Working with Upset Customers, you will learn how to successfully serve upset customers, calm upset customers, and deal with abusive customers. In addition, you will learn how to control your own emotions and reduce your level of stress. more...

Presenting Your Proposition Even the most confident sales people can feel their self-assurance dissolve when required to make a formal sales presentation. This course is about giving you the confidence, not only to present, but also to get commitment from your customer. Demonstrating a structure that can be adapted to most situations, this course will equip you with the skills needed to deal with the most intimidating more...

Preparing for Mutual Success Reduce CSR Stress This course provides several strategies to help CSRs cope with stressful customer situations while maintaining a courteous and professional demeanor. Professionals who want to provide best-in-class customer service for clients by effectively using telephone, fax and Internet technologies more...

Technical Support Agent Survival Skills ...stress is an everyday issue for the Technical Support Agent (TSA). The focus of this course is specifically directed to the situations that TSAs encounter. The course will help the TSA avoid burnout and manage job responsibilities by identifying the causes of stress, prevention methods, and time management skills. Technical Support Agents seeking to acquire new skills or improve the skills they more...

Customer Service Agent Skills Simulation Kenworth Domestic Appliances (KDA) is a national manufacturer and direct seller of household devices, offering a line of products that ranges from toasters to central-air conditioning units. Post-sales support is critical to their operation, and KDA prides itself on superior customer service. For the duration of this simulation, the learner will assume the role of customer service agent generalist more...

Working Collaboratively Communicate Your Goals Working Collaboratively: Communicate Your Goals, is the tenth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the guidelines for communicating your needs and identify guidelines on how to give and receive feedback. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by more...

Managing Conflict Stress and Time ... and solving each customer's problem can be an enormously stressful and time-consuming process. This course is intended to show the proper methods needed to resolve conflicts, manage time, and manage stress. It also highlights the importance of a positive approach and attitude in bringing customer interactions to a satisfactory conclusion. This course helps to prepare learners interested in the more...

Customer Support Specialist Simulation You are a call center representative for BroadBandCast Inc., one of the world's leading communication companies. Digital cable TV, high-speed Internet, and phone service are among the company's products. You are a recent hire. An added challenge to your new position is that you have been assigned to work the graveyard shift. Your challenge is to figure out how to handle dealing with angry, more...

Project Leadership Overcoming Obstacles Project Leadership: Overcoming Obstacles covers the benefits of initiating change, how to handle employee responses to change, and how to encourage change. It also outlines how to recognize and reduce stress, as well as how to improve work habits. In addition, the program details how to manage and resolve team conflict. The target audience for this series is project managers who are responsible more...

Working with Difficult People Respond to Challenges Working with Difficult People: Respond to Challenges, is the thirteenth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to demonstrate several techniques to effectively handle minor and periodic personality differences. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by more...

Working with Difficult People Cope With Continued Conflict Working with Difficult People: Cope with Continued Conflict, is the last of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to sequence the steps of a conflict resolution effort, select the most appropriate action to handle a difficult situation, based on the specific circumstances and identify options available to you if you are unable to resolve an more...

Expanding Time Develop SMART Goals Expanding Time: Develop SMART Goals, is the fifth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to pinpoint the benefits of time management and identify the guidelines for defining goals. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating common barriers to more...

Expanding Time Remove Your Barriers Expanding Time: Break Time Barriers, is the sixth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify the steps you should take to avoid procrastination, identify how to minimize interruptions from people at work and identify how to avoid perfectionist tendencies in your work. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques more...

Expanding Time Focus on What is Important Expanding Time: Focus on What is Important, is the seventh of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the steps that convert goals into prioritized tasks, list guidelines for effective scheduling and list guidelines for successfully implementing a prioritized and scheduled task list. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted more...

Working Collaboratively Assert Your Influence Working Collaboratively: Assert Your Influence, is the eighth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list the benefits of influencing and contrast the skill of influencing with controlling and advising. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating more...

Working Collaboratively Build Rapport Gain Trust Working Collaboratively: Build Rapport, Gain Trust, is the ninth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify principles for creating and maintaining rapport, list the steps in listening authentically and identify three distinct question types. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy more...

Working Collaboratively Extend Your Influence Working Collaboratively: Extend Your Influence, is the eleventh of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to classify influencing styles, identify guidelines for broadening your range of influence through networking and identify guidelines for resolving an impasse. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's more...

Working with Difficult People Recognize Work Styles Working with Difficult People: Recognise Work Styles, is the twelfth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to identify reasons why a person may be problematic to work with and select the most appropriate response to individuals who exhibit specific patterns of behavior. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for more...

Balancing Stress Devise a Stress Control Plan ...Stress: Devise a Stress Control Plan, is the fourth of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to implement guidelines for assertiveness in life, classify behavior types in terms of a widely used and accepted model, identify strategies to modify behavior types and develop an action plan for tackling stress. The Stress Management curriculum more...

Organizational Communication Managing Communication Organizational Communication: Managing Communication is designed to help students understand innovation and change, how environmental context affects communication, and how power and politics affect an organization. The program gives students guidelines for managing change, stress, conflict, and for empowering individuals. By applying the guidelines, students will be able to communicate more...

Balancing Stress Measuring Stress ...Stress: Measuring Stress, is the first of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to describe the social and personal costs of stress and assess your stress levels. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating common barriers to success. All levels more...

Balancing Stress Simple Solutions for Stress ...Stress: Simple Solutions for Stress, is the second of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to list healthy dietary, exercise and relaxation principles and identify natural ways to combat stress. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted techniques for today's busy professionals to increase productivity by eliminating common more...

Balancing Stress Stress Relieving Habits ...Stress: Stress Relieving Habits, is the third of fourteen courses in this curriculum. After the completion of this course you will be able to recognize how to overcome stress inducers using mental strategies, implement guidelines for managing your daily work and identify planning principles to help you realize your goals in life. The Stress Management curriculum presents easily adopted more...

Effective Listening Skills Simulation ...g, the seminar environment is casual, offering a safe and stress-free forum for self-evaluation and interaction. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft Series "Effective Listening Skills" and has links to the following courses: COMM0151, COMM0152, COMM0153 and COMM0154. NOTE: For portions of this simulation, note paper and a pen or pencil are required. Business professionals at all levels of more...

Presenting Your Case Have you ever attended a presentation that failed because the presenter was ill prepared or ineffective in his approach? A successful presenter must possess the proper skills to plan and deliver an effective business case presentation and employ strategies to establish and maintain the audience's attention. This course examines the careful planning and delivery of a business case presentation. It more...

Managing Anger in the Workplace Simulation Like most people, you have probably become angry at work. A disagreement with a coworker or manager could make you lose your temper and voice your anger, but is this really a good idea? What will your coworkers or manager think of your outburst? While confronting anger in the workplace is inevitable, it's important to minimize your angry thoughts, emotions and behaviors, and channel your energy more...

Process Management Skills ...ls including time management, performance management, and stress management. This course will help you develop your skills at organizing and scheduling activities such as meetings, client conferences, and personnel reviews. Process Management Skills will also assist you in setting goals and accomplishing tasks in less time but with higher quality. Applying these important strategies will also more...

Transitioning From Technical Professional to Management For candidates considering the move from positions as technical professionals to management, certain professional traits and skills are necessary. Effective communication skills, efficient strategies, and managerial competencies must all be mastered and continuously honed. The Transitioning from Technical Professional to Management Simulation will provide participants with the opportunity to more...

From Technical Professional to Leadership Simulation For candidates considering the move from positions as technical professionals to management, certain professional traits and skills are necessary. Effective communication skills, efficient strategies, and facilitative competencies must all be mastered and continuously honed. The From Technical Professional to Leadership Simulation will provide participants with the opportunity to develop these more...

A New Manager s Responsibilities and Fears Promotion to management is obviously welcome and something to celebrate, but when the initial excitement is over, you may begin to wonder about your new responsibilities. Your main focus is now on managing the activities of others and ensuring that the company's resources are used effectively. Apprehensions about whether you are able to do the job are natural--it merely indicates a healthy respect more...

Managing Yourself and Those Around You Successful administrative support professionals must be good managers. This means managing their own time and energies, as well as cooperatively working with their boss and co-workers. This course teaches successful strategies for dealing with the myriad demands on the time, resources, communication skills, and organizational powers of administrative assistants. Administrative support more...

Getting Started--The Administrative Support Professional The skills needed to fulfill the requirements of today's administrative support professionals are numerous. Day-to-day, they must be flexible as they work in an ever-changing business environment. They must use interpersonal skills that help them deal effectively with clients, visitors, and other office professionals. They must also manage their time effectively to function successfully. This more...

Heat Stress ...e work practices that you can use to prevent heat-related stresses. The content in this course is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. describe how your body handles heat, and what personal factors may lead to heat stress identify the signs, symptoms, and first aid treatments of heat-related illnesses recall preventive measures that you can take to more...

Office Safety ...dministrative areas. These areas of concern are ergonomic stress, hazard communication, bloodborne pathogens, and electrical safety. The content in this course is designed to comply with the intent of the applicable regulatory requirements. identify office noise abatement and air quality/ventilation strategies identify the signs and symptoms of ergonomic hazards, and how to reduce injuries more...

Excellence in Service - Working with Upset Customers In Excellence in Service: Working with Upset Customers you will learn how to successfully handle customers when they are upset calm upset customers and deal with abusive customers. In addition you will learn how your own emotions affect your interactions with customers and how to reduce your stress.  more...

Telephone Skills: Effectively Managing Inbound and Outbound Calls This course teaches the skills to prepare for inbound calls and how to deal with them. Guidelines for screening calls putting a caller on hold transferring a call and taking messages are taught. The learner is also stepped through the preparation to make outbound calls including stress management. Leaving voice mail messages developing secondary contacts and delivering negative messages are also more...

Administrative Assistant Skills: Excelling as an Administrative Assistant In Administrative Assistant Skills: Excelling as an Administrative Assistant you will learn how to make office politics a positive tool build strong business relationships and manage temporary staff effectively. You will also learn how to create a stress management plan and develop a positive attitude. In addition you will learn how to work effectively with your supervisor work well with multiple more...

Moving from Technical Professional to Manager: Managing Personnel This course teaches key skills for team building team leadership and team management. It begins with some guidelines and tactics for effective leadership before teaching how to get the best results from your team through development training and conflict management. Finally it looks at how to improve communication skills as well as how to avoid stress and job burnout.  more...

Stress Management: Fundamentals for Managers ...Stress Management: Fundamentals for Managers prepares participants to identify the warning signs of excessive stress and identify its personal social and professional sources. Armed with proven techniques for combating stress participants are able to take appropriate action to reduce its presence in their lives. They also receive guidance on spotting employees who are battling stress and more...

Stress Management: Fundamentals for Employees In Stress Management: Fundamentals for Employees participants learn to identify the warning signs of excessive stress and identify its personal social and professional sources. Armed with proven techniques for combating stress participants are able to take appropriate action to reduce its presence in their lives.  more...

Self Development: Balancing Your Personal and Professional Life In Self-Development: Balancing Your Personal and Professional Life individuals learn how to establish priorities and make their daily life reflect those priorities. They explore ways to identify and manage the sources of stress in their life and pursue lifestyle changes in order to help manage various sources of stress.  more...

Call Center Management: Managing and Motivating Your Staff Call Center Management: Managing and Motivating Your Staff gives the student information about turnover and training as well as processes for reducing turnover and training effectively. The program also gives the student a process for managing employee stress as well as guidelines for motivating and communicating with employees. Additionally the program provides students with processes and more...

Managerial Leadership: Leading Through Change Managerial Leadership: Leading Through Change discusses the three phases of planned change and the importance of planning changes before implementing them. This program highlights the types of information employees need in order to understand the need for and accept organizational changes as well as guidelines for motivating employees through a change process and a process for solving problems more...