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Stress Management and Coping with Pressure eLearning
Online stress management training for individuals, practical techniques for managing pressure, and a clear line between coping strategies and problems your employer has to fix.
Who it is for
Who this stress management and coping with pressure course is for
This is the individual counterpart to workplace stress training. It covers what a person can do about pressure, while being honest that some causes are organisational and belong in a stress risk assessment instead.
- All staff, as part of wellbeing training
- People in high-pressure roles
- Managers under sustained workload
- Shift and remote workers
- HR and wellbeing leads
- Anyone finding work pressure hard to manage
Course content
What the stress management and coping with pressure course covers
Five short lessons covering pressure and your signals, time and workload, thinking patterns, physical basics and breathing, and support, then a 12-question assessment.
Pressure, stress and your own signals
The pressure curve, the difference between pressure and stress, and your early warning signals.
Time and workload
Prioritising when the list is too long, breaking tasks down, and saying what will not get done.
Thinking patterns
Common unhelpful thinking patterns, noticing them, and finding a more balanced view.
Physical basics, relaxation and breathing
Sleep, movement, food and caffeine, and a simple breathing technique.
Support, and when coping is not the answer
Asking for support early, sources of help, and when the cause is the work and the employer must act.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise the pressure curve and your own early warning signals
- Prioritise when the list is too long
- Notice unhelpful thinking patterns and reframe them
- Use physical basics and a simple breathing technique
- Get support early, and know when coping is not the answer
Your legal duty
The law behind stress management and coping with pressure training
Work-related stress is a risk to health that employers must assess under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, with the general duty to ensure health, safety and welfare sitting behind it in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Personal coping techniques do not discharge that duty and are not meant to. This course is deliberately explicit about the boundary, because stress management training used as a substitute for fixing workload is both ineffective and resented.
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - health includes mental health
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - assessing work-related stress
- Personal coping techniques do not replace the employer's duty to assess and control
- Equality Act 2010 may apply where a condition amounts to a disability
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
The organisational causes and the employer's duty are covered there.
For employers
Stress Management and Coping with Pressure training for a team
Offer this alongside a genuine stress risk assessment, not instead of one, otherwise it lands badly and does not work.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Stress Management and Coping with Pressure eLearning: common questions
This one is about what an individual can do. The Workplace Stress course covers the six organisational causes and the employer's duty to assess and control them.
No. It is awareness training with practical techniques. Anyone currently struggling should be supported through occupational health, an employee assistance programme or their GP.
They help in the moment, particularly if practised beforehand rather than attempted for the first time under pressure. The course is realistic about what they do and do not achieve.
The course addresses that directly in the final module. Recognising an organisational problem and raising it is a legitimate outcome, not a failure to cope.
No, and the course says so. Used as a substitute it is ineffective and resented. Used alongside a stress risk assessment it is genuinely useful.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.