Many individuals experience work stress at some point in time. With the current challenging economic climate, the need to remain competitive has taken on a sense of urgency in most organisations. Consequently, there are higher expectations for company employees, resulting in situations where employees take on tasks outside the scope of their duties, or try to do more within a given period. This can lead to increased stress levels, both physically and cognitively, resulting in longer working hours and with healthy lifestyle habits being neglected.

The workshop aims to help attendees obtain a better understanding of what work stress entails. It will provide some practical ideas of how to break away from limiting thoughts in order to create new alternatives for dealing with stress and to manage stress and its associated conditions effectively. This workshop is intended for employees working at the Hatfield Campus and their registration will have preference.

Activity: Workshop: Stress management

Presenter: [email protected] 

Venue: Blue Room, Old Chemistry Building, Hatfield Campus 

Date:  Friday, 28 July 2017

Time: 08:00‒12:00

RSVP: by Monday, 24 July 2017 at 12:00 (Susan Joubert, [email protected])

Please get prior approval from your line manager to attend the workshop. Without such approval we cannot accept your booking.

Since we can accommodate only fifteen participants, bookings will be made on a first-come, first-served basis.

Register online, as follows:

• Log on to the UP portal (www.up.ac.za). The UP Staff Intranet news page will appear. Click on the Staff Systems portlet button. 
• Scroll to the Human Capital Management (HCM) System portlet and click on Human Resources Self-Service link (leave, claims, personal info, etc). 
• Click on the Employee Work Centre link. 
• Click on the Performance Development tab. 
• Click on Development Request. (You have previously entered your development needs and you have selected the programme(s) that you would like to attend.) 
• Click on In-house (Free of charge) programmes. 
• Click on Search by Course name (Stress Management − 956), type in the name of the workshop and click on the Search button, or simply leave the space blank and press Enter. 
• A list of all the selected courses will be displayed. Click on View available sessions next to the course you would like to attend and select a session by clicking on the Session number. 
• On the Request Training Enrolment – Session Detail screen, read the applicable information and click on the Continue button. 
• Complete the comments field if necessary and click on Submit.

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