Stress and Burnout are on the rise in the workplace now more than ever before. This attacks our wellbeing, performance and company profit. The post-lockdown working world seems to have turned up the dial on the demand in our lives - more message requests, too many tasks, not enough time, less ‘off’ time, less interpersonal community at work, the house needs cleaned, the cat needs to go to the vet…the list goes on!
In this practical science-based Leqture, Dr T will give you an insight into stress in your personal and professional life, how to spot burnout, and ways to combat it. In this Leqture, you will:
You can maximise your wellbeing and performance in Personal and Professional life!
During the expert session, Dr. Tharaka engages the audience through a live demonstration using the Mentimeter app, where they identify stress coping mechanisms by drawing and labeling them on a virtual bucket.
Tharaka also leads an interactive activity involving multitasking tasks to highlight its impact on performance and brain health. Throughout the session, he shares valuable tips for managing multitasking, burnout, and productivity traps, encouraging participants to prioritize self-care and effective communication.
Identifying personal coping mechanisms and making time for them is essential for maintaining balance and preventing burnout in both personal and professional life. (Dr. Tharaka's expert session emphasized the importance of a stress bucket, highlighting relaxation techniques, hobbies, effective communication with colleagues, and prioritizing self-care.)
Contrary to popular belief, multitasking is not an efficient way to get things done. Focus on one task at a time and take regular breaks to give your brain a rest for improved productivity and mental wellbeing. (Dr.
Tharaka demonstrated the negative effects of multitasking during his expert session and advised participants to stay focused on one task to avoid brain fatigue and toxic stress.)
Overcoming productivity traps like people pleasing and perfectionism can significantly improve your work-life balance. Practice saying "soft no's" when dealing with distractions, take time to make decisions, and aim for progress instead of perfection. (Dr.
Tharaka shared valuable tips during his expert session on managing multitasking in today's fast-paced world, including staying mindful of productivity traps and employing effective strategies to overcome them.)
In this expert session, Dr. Tharaka sheds light on the significance of managing stress in both personal and professional aspects of life. With our increasingly hectic schedules, self-care often takes a back seat, leading to potential mental health issues.
Tharaka introduces the concept of a "stress bucket" – if we fail to manage our stress effectively, it can overflow and manifest as emotional or mental health problems.
To help prevent burnout, Tharaka encourages identifying coping mechanisms and setting aside time for them. He suggests creating a bucket diagram with a tap representing life's demands and an overflow symbolizing potential stressors.
Participants are then encouraged to identify their top coping mechanisms by drilling holes in the bucket and labeling them.
Tharaka emphasizes the importance of recognizing what helps individuals manage stress, be it relaxation techniques, hobbies, team lunches, or effective communication with colleagues. He advises prioritizing these coping mechanisms and protecting them at all costs.
The expert also discusses productivity traps such as people pleasing and perfectionism, offering tips for managing these challenges effectively. Tharaka suggests practicing a "soft no" when dealing with distractions or non-priority tasks, taking time to make decisions, and aiming for progress rather than perfection.
Tharaka then shifts the focus to multitasking in today's fast-paced world. He explains that despite our best efforts, people are multitasking more than ever before, with work culture changing due to the pandemic.
Tharaka emphasizes the importance of being aware of this trend and its potential negative effects on brain health and productivity.
To illustrate his point, Tharaska conducts an interactive activity using the Mentimeter app. Participants are asked to identify various elements occurring in a picture and multitask by answering multiple-choice questions while writing digits under each corresponding letter. The results show significant differences in performance among participants.
Tharaka concludes that there is no such thing as multitasking for the brain; instead, we're single-tasking and giving ourselves an illusion of doing multiple things at once, which can lead to increased brain fatigue and toxic stress. To combat this, Tharaka advises staying focused on one task at a time and taking breaks to give your brain a rest.
Throughout the session, Tharaka shares valuable insights on managing multitasking, recognizing stressors, prioritizing coping mechanisms, and maintaining work-life balance. Participants are left with actionable tips for improving their overall wellbeing in today's fast-paced world.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
An excellent and engaging session, thank you very much.
It was amazing! Fun, interactive, lots of engagement. Thank you!
Thank you, such a good session. Very interactive and informative.
Very good interactive session! Thank you!
Thanks so much for this webinar. It was very interesting and I'm going to try apply some of the techniques that were presented.
Speaker was good, and loved the different ways to communicate. Was good. Different from other ones I have attended.
That was a great session! Thanks a lot!
Great session. Thanks for organizing.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
Stress and Burnout are on the rise in the workplace now more than ever before. This attacks our wellbeing, performance and company profit. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Dr., produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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