Overview
The Staying calm in all circumstances course is a 2-day stress management training, open to anyone who wishes to develop their personal resources to manage stress better and preserve their serenity in the most demanding situations. This course is commissioned by your organisation, in-company and on quotation, from Excelia Business School's Executive Education Centre.
Why choose the Staying calm in all circumstances course?
The course does not ask you to eliminate stress. It gives you the means to understand its origin and mechanisms, thanks to input from neuroscience rather than a ready-made recipe, then the means to try out concrete tools to regulate your emotions better.
Adaptability then takes over. In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, the course trains you to welcome stressful situations instead of enduring them. It is designed to help you face the day-to-day challenges with more calm and effectiveness, and the detail of the sequences appears in the Curriculum tab.
What the course gives you
Because the practical scenarios are tied to your real professional activity, stress management at work is worked on in concrete terms: what you learn can be transposed immediately into your work situations. Open to anyone concerned, whatever their job function, the course is not aimed only at managers.
This course develops personal resources in the face of stress, whereas the collective prevention of psychosocial risks falls under another course, Preventing psychosocial risks in your team.
Two days to leave with methods
Excelia Business School offers the course face-to-face, with playful and interactive workshops supplemented by practical scenarios. You practise on site before leaving with practical methods and a personal action plan, to put into practice to cultivate your serenity and your effectiveness at work and in everyday life.
The skills targeted
The course aims to:
- Acquire the keys to understanding the origin and mechanisms of stress
- Discover concrete tools, useful day to day, to gain more serenity
- Work on your adaptability to welcome stressful situations serenely in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous context
Complementary on the subject of self-awareness, the Know yourself to manage better course extends this work.
Curriculum
The course totals 14 hours and is offered in-company.
How you learn
Designed to help you face the day-to-day challenges, the course combines three methods:
- Theoretical input drawn from neuroscience
- Playful and interactive workshops
- Practical scenarios related to your professional activity
Three sequences, from stress to your reflexes
The pathway is organised into three sequences: understanding the mechanisms of stress, developing your adaptability, then transposing what you have learned into professional situations. Each one unfolds below.
Understand the mechanisms of stress
Understand the mechanisms of stress thanks to input from neuroscience and try out concrete tools to regulate your emotions better in a volatile, uncertain and complex environment.
This sequence sets a framework for reading the stressful situations you encounter, to which the tools are tied.
Module titles
- The origin and mechanisms of stress
- Input from neuroscience
- The regulation of emotions
- Concrete tools for day-to-day life
Develop your adaptability
Develop your adaptability through interactive and playful workshops, including theatrical improvisation and relaxation techniques, to explore letting go, listening and adjusting to the situation.
In the workshops, improvisation and relaxation serve as a training ground for the way you adjust to the situation.
Module titles
- Interactive and playful workshops
- Theatrical improvisation
- Relaxation techniques
- Letting go, listening and adjusting to the situation
Transpose into your professional situations
You will learn to spot your stress signals, to adopt new behavioural reflexes and to transpose what you learn immediately into your real professional situations.
As the last stage of the pathway, the sequence leaves the general framework to focus on your own stress signals and your reflexes.
Module titles
- Spot your stress signals
- New behavioural reflexes
- Transposition into real professional situations
Funding
The course is delivered in-company, on quotation, for two face-to-face days.
How to fund it
Your company can fund it through one of these two schemes:
- The skills development plan, specific to your company
- An OPCO (skills operator), approached by your company
What your company gains from it
Trained teams work on practical scenarios built from their real activity. Each person leaves with practical methods and a personal action plan, and everyone with the same keys to understanding the origin and mechanisms of stress. The company thus has common reference points for facing demanding periods. As the course is open to anyone concerned, and not only to managers, the company decides who it trains, without any requirement as to job function. For a pathway designed entirely around its organisation, the Executive Education Centre also offers tailor-made in-company training.
At Excelia Executive Education, we offer personalised support to help every profile — company, employee, self-employed person or public sector employee — to make their training projects a reality by drawing on the most suitable funding schemes.
FAQ
What approach is the Staying calm in all circumstances course based on?
The course combines theoretical input drawn from neuroscience, playful and interactive workshops and practical scenarios related to professional activity. It starts from an understanding of the origin and mechanisms of stress and moves towards concrete tools and a personal action plan.
What does theatrical improvisation bring to stress management training?
Theatrical improvisation is one of the interactive and playful workshops of the Staying calm in all circumstances course, along with relaxation techniques. These workshops make it possible to explore letting go, listening and adjusting to the situation, and to work on adaptability through practice.
How do you spot your stress signals at work?
In the Staying calm in all circumstances course, spotting your stress signals is the subject of the third sequence, after understanding the mechanisms of stress and the adaptability workshops. It is extended by new behavioural reflexes, to be transposed immediately into real work situations.
Is the Staying calm in all circumstances course reserved for managers?
No. It is aimed at anyone wishing to develop behavioural reflexes in the face of stressful situations and to cultivate their serenity day to day, with no prerequisites.
What is the difference between the Staying calm in all circumstances course and a training course on psychosocial risks?
This course develops personal resources in the face of stress: understanding the mechanisms of stress, spotting your signals and gaining adaptability. The collective prevention of psychosocial risks within a team falls under another course, Preventing psychosocial risks in your team.
Admissions
Target audience
This course is aimed at anyone wishing to develop behavioural reflexes in the face of stressful situations, as well as those keen to cultivate their serenity day to day.
Prerequisites
- No prerequisites required.
