Executive Stress Seminars: Taking the Stress out of Leadership!
Leadership stress is a common form of executive level stress in the workplace. Extensive research confirms that management style is a critical element to effective leadership. It is proven that people are more productive if managed by a collaborative style rather than an autocratic one. Dominant, authoritative people can be known for getting things done; but they also stamp their personality on an organisation and may inflict stress on their employees. Those with personality styles that are less driven than their own can frustrate them or seem tedious. Autocratic people can be demanding, less patient and intolerant. All of this adds up to a recipe for stress, both in the leader and in their employees.
Why Should You Attend a Seminar?
Sue is an eloquent, articulate presenter with wide experience of presenting to small and large groups. She combines a direct style with an engaging manner and professional delivery on this sensitive topic. This ensures that she not gets not only your attention, but also that you leave with your own personal blueprint for stress management based on your experience with 'Taking the Stress out of Leadership!' New skills and strategies will be formed which can be taken back into the workplace and in turn will help your organisation's bottom line.
What are the Benefits of Attending?
1. You will learn the Ten Point Plan: ten proven strategies that help you reduce stress immediately and make a difference to how well you handle it in the future.
2. You can be 'wired up' to a cardiac monitoring kit that is simple to use on a laptop or PC and which demonstrates how to reduce your stress and become more effective. It is easy to learn the technique and reproduce it no matter how stressed you are or what situation you're in.
3. You will be able to determine the significance of your own symptoms of stress and learn simple techniques to manage them well.
4. You’ll be able to identify stress in other people and support them to manage it better
5. You’ll receive a CD and booklet that will cover the Ten Point Plan and longer term strategies for success.
Leading & Managing Change
Leading & Managing Change is an important subject at a time when organisations have to introduce new processes, and modify old processes, in order to remain competitive. The impact of frequent change, or infrequent but significant change, to people can often be de-motivating and negative. It doesn't have to be though. This session is designed to help understand how and why people react to change. The more we understand people, the better we can implement change initiatives, maintain productivity and maximise the effectiveness of everyone involved.
Objectives: -
1. To define ‘Change’ and its impact both in recent years within Industry and on people
2. To introduce a personality characteristic that differentiates those people who are likely to cope well with change and those who cope less well
3. To suggest ways of encouraging both personality types to work well together
4. To make a number of recommendations which ensure change initiatives are as effective as possible.
This is an interactive session using exercises and a personality questionnaire to illustrate the pertinent points, and includes time for group discussion.
Self– esteem and the CEO
To many people attaining success in life is very important; yet some of us never 'feel' successful and push ourselves hard to achieve ever higher standards . This behaviour is often learnt from an early age but the dissatisfaction with what we have and what we are can breed discontent in life. It can also undermine the very thing we are striving to attain –success! Ingrained habits and beliefs feed our self-esteem or affect it and upset self-belief, self-confidence and self-worth. All these perceptions of ourselves are affected by life's experiences but they can be important as they influence how we think, the goals we set and our conviction about our strengths. Many of us suffer extreme self doubt which manifests itself either in sabotaging our efforts when we get close to success, feeling unconvinced of our worthiness for success (otherwise known as Impostor syndrome), or just very uncertain about how and why we have managed to achieve success so far, which makes us vulnerable to a lack of conviction that we can reproduce the same circumstances or skills again.
We are often concerned to positively influence other people without realising that we must first influence ourselves!
Objectives: -
1. To understand what self-esteem is, how we learn it, and how it is influenced throughout our lives
2. To look at techniques that help repair damage to our self-esteem from past
experiences
3. To complete an exercise that helps identify our strengths, thereby feeding a positive sense of ourselves for the future
4. To understand and implement the Formula for Success in order to achieve continuing success both for ourselves and to use on employees
Each delegate will receive a CD called ‘Tap in to Your Potential: how to maximise your Self-esteem’ or be given a coupon to download an mp3 file from the site.
About Sue Firth
Sue Firth is a Business Psychologist, Stress Expert, Behaviour Analyst & Author and is a specialist in helping CEOs and senior executives manage stress, from an individual and group perspective. She is an international speaker & presenter and holds both a Batchelor of Science and a Masters Degree. She is a member of the British Psychological Society, The International Stress management Association (ISMA), and The Academy for Chief Executives (ACE). Sue regularly appears in the media and has been a guess/expert on ITV This Morning & Panorama.
Stress Information for Executives
Sue is founder of www.sue-firth.com and you can contact her by
e-mailing : sue@suefirthltd.com
or calling : 0844 800 4292
