Clarifying responsibility, authority, accountability helps assess the situation.

Transform Workplace Stress
into Creative New Opportunities
Part Two - Assess Your Situation

To assess the situation is to evaluate it. What is working? What is not? What action can be taken, by whom to improve the situation, productivity or life work satisfaction.

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different of more effective action. Peter Drucker

Change starts with Awareness

Change is inevitable and constant. Change is here with increasing complexity and intensity. How effectively you can recognize opportunities and adapt is critical to your well being and your success. The capacity to cope is a function of effective thinking. Stopping to assess the situation and deciding to take charge of things within your power is the first step toward managing the stressors in your life at home or at work and transforming stress into creative new opportunities.

A.C.T. Coaching Model

The ACT coaching model represents a practical process consisting of three primary steps:

Assess and accept your situation - assess the situation, see it clearly and accept responsibility
Consider Options and Choose – do a personal SWOT analysis, Make a choice
Take Action - Set direction, prepare for and take strategic action.

KAIZEN Coaching Model

Identify the Pressures

Energy tied up in stress is energy lost to productivity.

Identify the primary pressures you are currently facing.

Consider your options and decide on a productive course of action, where you can have the greatest return on your effort.

IDENTIFY THE PRESSURES
Life Pressures	Workplace Pressures
Family demands	Unclear job expectations
Competing interests	Technology
Lack of boundaries	Workload
The right “fit” (work/role)	Relationship with boss
Career satisfaction	Promotion into new role
Relationship challenges	Interpersonal relations
Personal health issues	Occupational health hazards
Lifestyle expectations	Performance challenges

Identify the Pressures

Please note that all fields followed by an asterisk must be filled in.

First Name*
First Name*

E-mail Address*
E-mail Address*

Country*
Country*

What is the greatest pressure you are feeling?

How is this pressure, in one aspect of your life, affecting your life as a whole?

Where is the greatest source of pressure coming from? Is it:

	Internal to you?
	Outside of you?

What action can you take to control the pressure you are feeling?

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Transform Workplace Stress e-Course Contents

Program Description: Transform Workplace Stress into Creative New Opportunities Program Description

Part One: Workplace Stress Signs, Symptoms, Factors and Conditions

Part Two:

Section A: Change Starts with Awareness
Section B: Employee Satisfaction Self Assessment
Section C: Gain Perspective – Consider Work in the Context of Your Life
Section D: Attributes of a Productive Workplace

Part Three: Stress Relief, Coping Skills and Resilience Strategies

Transform Workplace Stress into Creative New Opportunities Part Two - Assess Your Situation

Change starts with Awareness

A.C.T. Coaching Model

Identify the Pressures

IDENTIFY THE PRESSURES

Transform Workplace Stress e-Course Contents

Transform Workplace Stress
into Creative New Opportunities
Part Two - Assess Your Situation