senior bct organisation: 1. stress 2. smart goals
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Stress - Define What is it? Stress is the pressure to meet deadlines at work or the inability to anticipate what may/may not occur and prepare for unexpected challenges. Stress is the body’s reaction to demanding tasks and challenges.TRANSCRIPT
Senior BCTOrganisation:
1. Stress2. SMART Goals
STRESS
What is it?
What causes stress?
What is the effect of stress?
What are some strategies to overcome stress?
Stress - Define
What is it?
Stress is the pressure to meet deadlines at work or the inability to anticipate what may/may not occur and prepare for unexpected challenges.
Stress is the body’s reaction to demanding tasks and challenges.
Stress - Causes Some possible causes:
Failure to plan
Going with the flow and then flustering when changes
occur
Overloaded with work
Failure to see the big picture
Commonly reactive people (not enough stress)
Stress - Effects
Impact on workplaces:
Increased days off work due to health issues
Payments for workers compensation
Retraining costs associated with replacing some staff
Increased pressure on other workers who have to
take up the slack
Stress - Strategies Ensure adequate breaks for all staff during the day Ensuring staff are trained to handle the job they are asked to
perform. Training staff to evaluate the effectiveness of their work processes Improve planning and organisational skills of staff Improving staff knowledge of technology to assist with planning Improve staff knowledge of stress health issues Assisting staff to identify timewasters and ways to better plan their
day
Strategies for employees and employers
Response
Q: In a structured paragraph respond to the following:
Explain what stress is, give two broad causes of
stress in a workplace, describe the affect of stress
and provide some possible strategies which can be
implemented to reduce stress in the workplace.
S M A R T Goals
Why should goals fit this criteria?
SPECIFIC
Each goal must have an explicit
objective to be reached with detailed
information as to who, what, when,
where, which and why.
S
MEASURABLE
Establish criteria for measuring
progress and completion. How do you
know when you’ve finished?
M
ACHIEVABLE
The goal must be at a level which is
attainable according to your skills and
time frame.
A
REALISTIC
Exaggerated and impractical goals will
not be effective as the likelihood of
reaching the goal is minimal. The goal
must be suited to your willingness and
ability to accomplish.
R
TIME BOUND
A suitable time frame/date needs to be
set which aligns with the achievability of
the goal, this is important to create
urgency instead of a ‘someday’ mentality.
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