Workplace Wellbeing: How to Build Confidence and Manage Stress
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
Luleå University of TechnologyDescription
Learn strategies for managing stress in the workplace to improve your wellbeing
Many of us suffer from feelings of low self-esteem and stress at work. This can make going to work a trying experience, and have a negative impact on other aspects of our lives.
This course from the Luleå University of Technology is designed to help you enjoy better workplace wellbeing.
Explore strategies to reduce workplace stress
The key themes in this course will help you enjoy a better work life and improved mental health at work. Topics covered in this workplace wellbeing course include how to manage stress in the workplace, reducing your workload through prioritisation, workplace roles and responsibilities, building self-esteem, and more.
Build self-esteem and understand your true worth
Ultimately, this course will help you to identify negative emotions, allowing you to reflect on these and take steps to counteract them. This will have the effect of reducing workplace stress, building self-esteem, and helping you better manage task prioritisation.
The end result will be improved mental health and wellbeing, which will empower you to get greater pleasure from your work.
What topics will you cover?
The course explores three key themes which each address the overarching issue of surviving the workplace. These themes include managing stress, managing tasks, and improving self-confidence and self-worth. Throughout the course you will explore
- How your physical and emotional wellbeing contributes to stress, and what changes you can make to reduce your stress and improve your quality of life in the workplace.
- How to reduce your workload by way of prioritizing tasks and effort spent on completing tasks while maintaining a healthy and professional relation to work and colleagues.
- The different roles and responsibilities in the workplace and what you can do to improve your situation by navigating common pitfalls and misunderstandings.
Who will you learn with?
Josef Hallberg
Associate professor in Pervasive and Mobile Computing at Luleå university of technology, Sweden. Over 15 years experience of research in e-health and technology to support mental wellbeing.
Who developed the course?
Luleå University of Technology
The Luleå University of Technology mission is to shape the future through innovative education and ground-breaking research results. Located in the arctic region, the university creates global societal benefit.
What Will I Learn?
- Identify undesired personal reactions to typical workplace situations.
- Reflect upon ways to improve your personal wellbeing at the workplace.
- Understand how certain behavior affects others and learn how to use this understanding to improve work relations and your own situation at the workplace.
- Develop a toolbox of helpful strategies and tactics to use in order to reduce stress and to improve your wellbeing at the workplace.
- Discover your self-worth and your importance at the workplace.
Topics for this course
Introduction to the course
Welcome to the course! VIDEO (01:49)00:00:00
Presentation of the lead educator VIDEO (02:09)00:00:00
Social learning – Learn together with others VIDEO (00:33)00:00:00
The key to workplace wellbeing DISCUSSION
Coping with your stress
Coping with your work
Coping with your low self-esteem
Summery and reflection
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This workplace wellbeing course is aimed at anyone who faces challenges of stress or low self-esteem at work.
- It would benefit those who face workplace stress in their current roles, as well as jobseekers anxious about returning or entering the workplace.