How to Help Your Team Manage Stress & Anxiety On-Site Training

HRCI and SHRM Certified

Anxiety in the workplace isn’t new, but recent world-altering events have shed light on its prevalence. The continuing uncertainty in most industries and organizations has left many employees on edge and struggling to cope. If your company takes a “just get over it” approach to employee anxiety, then job satisfaction, productivity and retention will suffer.

This LIVE, virtual course is designed to show management and HR personnel how to change the way anxiety is perceived within their organization. Participants will take an honest look at their company’s culture and learn to recognize when their employees are struggling. Instructor-led and highly interactive, this course provides strategies to help guide open conversations with staff members about anxiety and ways to steer your employees toward the support and solutions they need.

What You Will Learn

• Learn what anxiety is (and isn’t) and how to start addressing it in the workplace
• Reduce anxiety-inducing stimuli in employees’ day-to-day work lives
• Explore ways to normalize and support mental health at work
• Accommodate employee anxiety within the confines of the ADA
• Get strategies for tackling anxiety-related, job-performance issues

Workshop Agenda

Program time: 3 hours

Session 1: Understanding Anxiety

• Identify signs of stress, anxiety, depression and burnout in employees
• Differentiate among common anxiety disorders
• Discuss the personality traits of employees you believe are more prone to anxiety
• Assess how the workplace and day-to-day business practices affect staff members’ anxiety levels
• Create and foster an atmosphere that reduces anxiety-inducing stimuli

Session 2: Changing the Mindset Around Anxiety

• Identify potential sources of anxiety in the workplace
• Help employees increase their individual resilience
• Create psychological safety within your organization
• Normalize asking for help in the workplace
• Adapt your leadership approach to influence organizational change

Session 3: Managing Anxiety in the Workplace

• Accommodate employee anxiety within the confines of the ADA
• Explore potential legal hurdles you may face
• Take the best possible care of employees without overstepping legal bounds
• Identify steps for establishing an anxiety-friendly workplace
• Learn effective ways to handle anxiety-related, job-performance issues

The use of this seal confirms that this activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.

SkillPath is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.