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Mastering Stress Sprint
Latest research shows that nearly half of employees feel high levels of stress daily. This stress management course gives you evidence-based techniques to better manage your physiology and mental state. Leave with your action recovery plan to reduce stress, build resilience and truly thrive in the workplace and beyond.
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1Foundations 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.
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2Harnessing your stressors
- Understand the signs and symptoms of burnout.
- Learn how to harness and navigate your response to better manage stress.
- Discover evidence-based, stress management techniques to manage physiology and mental state.
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3Strategies 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.
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4Thriving 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:
Successfully manage energy levels, identify stressors and resources
Recover from existing stress and build long-term resilience
Create and sustain health and wellbeing in the workplace personally and for teams
Schedule overview
All live sessions are recorded and will be available for replay on the learning platform.
- 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
- 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
- Learn strategies for recovery
- Focus on sleep, mindfulness, nature, gratitude etc.
- Build your individual muscle for long-term resilience
- Develop your action recovery plan
- 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
“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.”
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…
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…
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…
Learn from experts in sleep management and mindfulness
Regional Director of Communications, Individual &Corporate Resource Mobilization WWF Adria, Croatia
Mastering Stress Sprint is comprehensive, interesting, engaging and has taught me how to react in stressful situations. The focus is on sleeping, mindfulness, assigning a time for private events in your business calendar, and many other inspiring methods. Thank you for this learning opportunity!
Senior Manager, HR & Operations Emirates Nature, WWF, UAE
Mastering Stress Sprint is a great learning opportunity which gives us lots of insights on how we can share knowledge with our teams to support their stress management.
What is IMD Sprint?
IMD Sprint is a new, accelerated learning experience, distilling the solutions to your biggest business challenges into compact, high-quality sessions of 1-2 hours per day, delivered online over 1-2 weeks. The project-based sprints teach you valuable frameworks and tools that you will apply in real time. The Sprint integrates faculty-led, live virtual interactive classroom with self-paced study. You receive IMD certification on successful completion.
How a Sprint works
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.
Self-paced learning
Interact with faculty and guest speakers
Learn from the winners (and losers)
Gain insights from your cohort
Turn learning into your own action plan
