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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
Eight short modules of practical technique, plus the honesty about where personal coping stops being the right answer.
Pressure and stress
The difference, and how to tell when pressure has tipped over.
Your own signals
Physical, emotional and behavioural warning signs.
Time and workload
Prioritising, planning and dealing with a genuinely impossible list.
Thinking patterns
Catastrophising, perspective and the habits that make pressure worse.
Physical basics
Sleep, movement and food, and why they are not a soft option.
Relaxation and breathing
Techniques that work quickly, and practising them before you need them.
Support
Colleagues, managers, employee assistance and professional help.
When coping is not the answer
Recognising an organisational problem and raising it
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Tell useful pressure from harmful stress
- Recognise your own warning signals early
- Prioritise work when the list is genuinely too long
- Notice and interrupt unhelpful thinking patterns
- Use quick relaxation and breathing techniques
- Ask for support before reaching crisis
- Recognise when the cause is the work rather than your coping
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
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
The organisational causes and the employer's duty are covered there. See the Workplace Stress course →
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 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
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.