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Mastering Stress Sprint - June 2023

CHF 850.00 Regular price CHF 950.00

Early bird price ends on 12 May 2023

Dates: 12 June - 26 June 2023
Time commitment: 1-2 hours per day

Quickly reduce stress, build resilience and truly thrive in the workplace and beyond. Explore the foundations of managing stress and boosting mental health in the workplace. This stress management course gives you evidence-based techniques to better manage your physiology and mental state. Develop your action recovery plan to reduce stress and boost work life balance.

mastering stress SPRINT

How do you manage stress? Would you say that you thrive at work and have a good work life balance? Are your stress and energy levels sustainable long term? Or rather, are you starting to feel the effects of chronic stress?

If this resonates with you, you are not alone. Latest research shows that nearly half of employees feel high levels of stress daily. The good news is that science-backed, stress management strategies and tools exist to help you quickly reduce stress, recover, build resilience and truly thrive in the workplace and beyond. Mastering stress is a learnable skill.

How a Sprint works?

The fast-paced format condenses your learning time to 1-2 hours per day. Enjoy active participation in the liVe sessions, interacting with your community, and/or building your project.

Each Sprint gives you access to a range of tools and learning platforms designed so you can achieve real impact, fast.
• Online modules: self-paced learning format
• Livestream sessions: interact live with faculty and guest speakers
• Peer learning: Gain insights from your cohort
• Project: Turn learning into your own action plan

Inspiring guest speakers

Learn from experts in sleep management and mindfulness
• Dr Els van der Helm - Sleep Neuroscientist
• Erick Rinner - Partner, Impact Expansion Management

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

1. Foundations of stress and wellbeing

• Explore the foundations of stress and mental health in the workplace
• Learn about the effects of stress on performance and relationships
• Understand that not all stress is bad for you
• Identify your stressors and forces for wellbeing

 

2. Harnessing your stressors

• Understand the signs and symptoms of burnout
• Learn how to quickly harness and navigate your response to better manage stress
• Discover evidence-based, stress management techniques to manage physiology and mental state

 

3. Strategies for recovery and resilience

• Learn strategies to control stress for rapid recovery
• Build your muscle for long-term stress management and resilience
• Develop your action recovery plan for improved work life balance

 

4. Thriving at work

Focus on creating an environment of wellbeing in your workplace
Discover evidence-based tools to help your team to thrive too
Build purpose for you and your team
• Become more engaged, optimistic and truly thrive going forward

This program is ideal for executives of all levels and industries looking to:

Manage energy levels

Successfully manage energy levels, identify stressors and resources

Build resilience

Recover from existing stress and build long-term resilience

Sustain workplace wellbeing

Create and sustain health and wellbeing in the workplace personally and for teams

alyson meister

Alyson Meister is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior. She helps organizations to develop inclusive and resilient leaders, teams, and workplaces. Her research specialty includes topics surrounding identity and diversity as well as workplace stress, mental health, and wellbeing. She was named on the Thinkers50 Radar list in 2021 and subsequently nominated for a Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award.

Meister’s inclusion on the Thinkers50 Radar list was in recognition of her research on how people can navigate, manage, and overcome bias throughout their careers, and how feeling marginalized, stereotyped, or mislabeled impacts stress, wellbeing, and job performance.

“The stigma around stress and mental health is still pervasive and creates a barrier to seeking and receiving help. This Sprint is a journey towards boosted wellbeing and resilience.”

Professor Alyson Meister

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Join the best for your business education. IMD is ranked Top 3 worldwide for executive education 10 years in a row - 2012-2022 (FT Executive Education Rankings).

YOUR Mastering stress SPRINT SCHEDULE

Project based sprints teach you valuable frameworks and tools that you will apply in real time. Gain applicable, strategic recommendations for your business. Achieve real impact, fast.

Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 112 June

Module 1: Foundations of stress and wellbeing

  • Explore the foundations of stress and mental health in the workplace
  • Learn about the effects of stress on performance and relationships
  • Understand that not all stress is bad for you
  • Identify your stressors and forces for wellbeing
Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 214 June

module 2: Harnessing your stressors

  • Understand the signs and symptoms of burnout
  • Learn how to quickly harness and navigate your stress response
  • Discover evidence-based techniques to better manage your physiology and mental state
  • Explore strategies to tackle key stressors that challenge your daily life
Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 316 June

module 3: Strategies for recovery and resilience

  • Learn strategies for recovery
  • Focus on sleep, mindfulness, nature, gratitude etc.
  • Build your individual muscle for long-term resilience
  • Develop your action recovery plan
Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 420 June

module 4: Thriving at work

  • Focus on creating an environment of wellbeing in your workplace
  • Discover evidence-based tools and techniques to help your team to thrive too
  • Build purpose for you and your team
  • Become more engaged, optimistic and truly thrive going forward
Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 522 June

submit project for peer review23 June

Session

LIVE VIRTUAL SESSION 626 June

RECEIVE YOUR CERTIFICATE of completion

  • Complete all course content and submit your assignment for peer review to receive your certificate of completion

Enroll Today

Join other ambitious leaders and shapers from around the world.

Next sprint starts on 12 June 2023

Mastering stress sprint

Would you say that you thrive at work and in life? Are your stress and energy levels sustainable long term? Or more often, do you feel you struggle to hold things together?

If this resonates with you, you are not alone. Latest research shows that nearly half of employees feel high levels of stress daily. This Sprint provides you with science-backed strategies and tools to help you quickly recover from the effects of stress, build resilience and truly thrive in the workplace and beyond. Mastering stress is a learnable skill.

- Identify forces that deplete and those that restore your energy
- Discover stress-busting strategies for quick recovery
- Boost your resilience so you and your teams can thrive at work
- Create healthy and sustainable practices and become a role model for others

Mastering Stress Sprint - June 2023

Quickly recover from the effects of stress, build resilience and truly thrive in the workplace and beyond.
  • Price: 850chf (early bird)
  • Program starts: 12 June 2023
  • Time commitment: 1-2 hours per day

  • Duration: 2 weeks
    12 June - 26 June 2023

    CHF 850 CHF 950