HOW TO SPOT STRESS AND FIX IT?

Stress Management training definitely helps you with handling and managing your stress. But does it also help you in identifying whether if you are stressed? Well, it certainly does.

Most of us don’t get through the first step of managing stress. And the first step is ‘getting aware that you are stressed’.

Getting aware of something happening with us or inside us is the most difficult thing of all. If you get aware what you are going through, most of the work is done there. This is because now you know what is it that needs to be worked on. You obviously cannot work on something you don’t know about.

Now the question is, how do you get aware?

There are some symptoms that you can notice. If you want to check if you are stressed, you can see if you are showing any of these symptoms.

Some of the behavioural and physical signs of being stressed are;

• Inability to sleep
• Fatigue
• Inability to manage time
• Lack of confidence
• Increased consumption of alcohol, caffeine, cigarettes, etc.
• Anger outbursts
• Relationship issues
• Disinterest
• Social withdrawal
• Sudden weight loss/gain
• Mood swings
• irritation
• Aches/pains
• Heart issues

These are just few of the behavioural & physical changes hampering work life balance that you may experience if you are stressed. There are many more. If you are stressed, you will observe similar changes in the way you operate in your regular life.

You have to very careful in observing them. Most of the time we think it is no big deal. You believe it is very common to be tired or being aggressive at time. Well, sometimes it is, but most of the time it’s not. While some of these can be common and not so big in nature, some of them can be life threatening. Hence, you cannot afford to ignore them. You must be very conscious about this.

Stress can be life threatening and also a roadblock to manage performance. There is a limit to which your body and your mind can take in. if you ignore it for far too long, it can get very difficult for your body and mind to take it any further and it will give up.

Identifying and managing stress is the need of the hour. With the rapidly changing environment that we live in to chase each other in a rat race, stress is a crucial part of our lives. It cannot be taken lightly.

Considering the current situation, stress management trainings are booming big time. Stress management training will not just give you tools to manage stress, it will help you identify your stress level first. A good stress management training starts with an assessment which will give you an idea of how stressed you are. That is supposed to be the basis to work upon.

So, start with the first step, check if you are stressed. If you are, stress management training is the key. If you are not, still, stress management is something that everyone should opt for. Right!

HOW BASIC EXCEL TRAINING CAN MULTIPLY YOUR BUSINESS

Excel training is one of the technical trainings that I would recommend for everyone. In fact, in today’s world I don’t think you can survive without it!

Consider our case. A training company with huge amounts of data. We have been in business since the past 10.5 years and have had more than 150 clients. The number of training sessions we would have done would be far beyond that figure, as we have luckily had plenty of repeat business from most of our clients. So you can just imagine the amount of training material we have with us!

One fine day, me and my colleague decided that managing the data was getting too difficult. We had a huge pile of activities sheets, game sheets, etc. collected over the past 10 years. Some of these had their soft copies while some were stand alone. We also had multiple documents with their various versions for each of the sessions. In short, we didn’t know where to start from!

Guess what helped us sort this huge mess out? The excel training that we had taken sometime back. It helped us in sorting everything and then putting all the data in a single sheet. We added all the files to one sheet; mentioning all the outlines, proposals, presentations, activities, videos and handouts that we had for the respective session.

We also created a separate sheet which listed all the activities that we generally use in our training sessions. We added possible outcomes of each of those activities along with a description of the same. We also used the drop down box feature of excel to add which activity could be used to target which outcome. And I must say, it has made life a lot easier!

Many of the functions taught during an excel training are very useful and can really help you improve on your time management and effort. For example, consider the function feature they teach you in excel training. Ones like sum, average, etc. They are extremely useful and we use them all the time in our accounting as well as the trainer reports that we create and send to the client.

Filters are also a very useful feature. Sometimes we get huge amounts of data with multiple columns. To pull out what you exactly want can be quite a harrowing task. However, if you use the filter function, you can get it in a jiffy! Pivot tables can also prove to be a very useful function. And that’s something you must insist on learning in an excel training.

In this way excel provides a wide range of features that can make life a lot simpler not just in our professional life but also in our personal life. It can help us do what we need to quickly and with minimal effort, giving us the scope to focus on more important coaching skills training. And the best part about it is it eliminates the human error, something which can crop up multiple times when you are handling large amounts of data manually.

Three cheers for excel training

ADVANTAGES OF BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE TRAINING

Business etiquette training mind sound very offensive to some people if tell them they need it. But it is not. Believe me.

Most of time people judge you just by looking at how to behave and carry yourself. You don’t even have to say a word. Maintaining a decorum in a professional space is considered very important. How well mannered are you, is something that can decide your success.

Your good behaviour will always work in your favour. If you are well behaved, people seem to like you and feel comfortable being around you. Your etiquette makes people see you as a nice person and their respect for you will always increase.

If you are in a company of senior people, be ready to be judged for every action of yours. Well, I am not being judgemental here. Trust me. But this is just something that we all know. Senior people always like when you are well mannered and well behaved. Be it in a professional or personal environment.

I know it can be very difficult to remember the dos and don’ts every single time. It definitely is a tedious job to keep all of it in mind. Not just when you are in the physical presence of someone but also when you are talking to someone on the phone or writing a professional email to them.

Learning the appropriate meeting & greeting etiquette and also the telephone and email etiquette is very important. Now, how do make sure you know all of these. This is when the business etiquette training workshops comes in the picture.

Taking a formal business etiquette training will help you understand the dos and don’ts. The next step is to start practising them. It can be little difficult initially to remember all of these as we said before. But, after some time you will get the hang of it.

It might be lot of work to learn these things and actually use them. But, trust me the advantages of it that I told you about through out my article are totally worth it. In terms of personality and organisational development it will definitely work in your favour.

The objective of this article was to tell you about the advantages of business etiquette in your professional life, according to me. I am sure there are many more advantages apart from the few that I mentioned. Look out for a business etiquette training workshop and let me know how it benefited you.