Learn how to reduce & manage stress at work, including a wealth of stress management tips & strategies.

This course is a practical, action oriented course designed to give you the tools, tips & strategies to reduce your current stress and to enable you to manage stress at work and in life positively going forward.
This course aims to give you an insight into stress, its impact, symptoms and causes, as well as to give you practical steps to follow to reduce and manage stress. The course will also give you a wealth of stress management tips and strategies to use to reduce and manage stress at work and in life.
As you go through the course you will be able to apply the learning and develop your own personalised stress management action plan.
The course is designed to be practical and relevant to real life. It includes a straightforward process that you can follow to reduce your current stress and lots of ideas, tips and strategies as to how to reduce and manage stress. The course takes a holistic view of stress management with stress management strategies for all areas of your life. It is not a theoretical or academic course on stress.

Business coach, mentor & stress management consultant
Liz Makin is an online course instructor focusing on personal development including courses on anxiety management, communication, conflict management, people management, resilience, soft skills, stress management, time management and work life balance. The courses are practical and relevant to real life with lots of ideas, tools, tips and strategies. Liz Makin is an experienced business coach, business mentor and stress management consultant with over 25 years of business experience at senior management and director level. She has a Masters degree in Coaching and Behavioural Change and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. Liz has been running her own business Makin It Happen - Coaching, Mentoring & Stress Management since 2002, which provides business coaching, business mentoring and stress management to business owners, directors, managers and professionals from small and medium sized companies to international organisations. Liz support clients to maximise the performance of their business, to maximise their own personal performance at work, in dealing with high levels of stress at work or in their business, when going through stressful and challenging times and in managing stress and building resilience to stress over time.
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