Reduce Workplace Anxiety & Come to Work Safely

Work can be a major cause of stress. It’s common to feel intense stress or anxiety when we’re just thinking about work. Knowing how to address anxiety or stress in healthy ways can be hard, especially if you’re trying to do so on your own. If you’re experiencing these issues, seeking professional help is usually a good idea. However, this course offers some ideas for other tools you can use to deal with anxiety at work.

Now, after the Covid-19 pandemic, coming to work can feel even more complicated. Whether you’ve been working remotely, temporarily laid off, or deemed essential for in-person work, COVID-19 has affected working life for all of us. As society continues to transition to “the new normal,” there are plenty of steps you can take to keep yourself and others safe.

This course covers general strategies for reducing anxiety at work as well as tips for returning to the workplace after the Covid-19 pandemic. For workplace anxiety, it introduces strategies that identify and disrupt destructive thinking habits and help build new, healthier habits. You’ll learn to structure your workday in a mindful way so you can begin to feel more comfortable, competent, and confident while doing your job. You’ll also learn about some of the different thinking traps that can create anxiety and some strategies to navigate and mitigate them, as well as some strategies to introduce mindfulness into your everyday life. When you implement these strategies, you can help reduce the anxiety you feel at work and reduce your chances of experiencing burnout.

To help ease the transition back to work, this course outlines some proactive measures you can take to adjust to new feelings of anxiety, discuss employee safety, communicate about Covid-19, create a plan for following your employer’s Personal Protective Equipment requirements, and more.

After this course, you’ll be able to:

– Integrate mindfulness into your daily life

– Recognize, acknowledge, and refute thinking traps as you experience them

– Take action to prevent burnout

– Structure your time to reduce stress

– Create a plan for when and where you’ll need to wear the Personal Protective Equipment required by your employer

– Identify and maintain the appropriate distance from others in a shared space

– Maintain the social connections in your workplace despite physical distancing

– Identify when you could be at risk of spreading illness and when you should stay home from work to avoid infecting others

– Practice a few key habits to help you maintain a good baseline level of health

– Communicate when you may have been exposed to COVID-19 and about what steps you should take before returning to work

– Take proactive measures to discuss what is being done to protect employee safety

– Use techniques to help you adjust to new feelings of anxiety and to manage anxiety you’re feeling related to COVID-19 or returning to work

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!