Mastering our Stress Level and Boosting Focus at Work

Aurelie Litynski

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSession rating: 4.4/5 from 53 participants
Mastering our Stress Level and Boosting Focus at Work

This one runs as an interactive workshop: the hour includes exercises your colleagues do themselves, not only a talk.

Session Summary

In this interactive expert session, Aurelie Litynski shares practical strategies to help professionals manage stress, improve focus, and build sustainable wellbeing at work. Combining insights from positive psychology with actionable techniques, she explores how to reduce distractions, regulate emotions, work more effectively, and create a personal toolbox for thriving in today's demanding workplace.

Interaction

During the expert session, Aurelie Litynski engages the audience through interactive methods such as Q&A sessions, live demonstrations using the Mentimeter app for polls and exercises, and reflective activities. She discusses her insights on creating a positive work culture that boosts motivation, engagement, and productivity by prioritizing happiness.

Aurelie shares her personal experiences and a four-step strategy to implement positive work culture, inviting participants to share their thoughts and ideas using Mentimeter. The session covers various topics like recognizing emotions, social connections, feedback culture, and open communication for stronger work relationships.

Aurelie also emphasizes the importance of understanding teammates' definitions of happiness and fostering empathy and nonverbal communication skills. The expert session concludes with a discussion on maintaining positivity in the workplace despite challenges and gaining management's buy-in to implement positive changes.

Key Learnings

Cultivating Positivity at Work

Recognizing the significance of prioritizing happiness in both personal and professional life is essential for creating a positive work culture. Reflect on your current emotional state at work using Mentimeter, and consider practicing daily highlights and expressing gratitude to boost positive emotions.

Building Strong Work Relationships

Fostering open communication, feedback culture, recognition, learning new things, and regular meetings can help build strong work relationships and increase happiness at work. Share your best practices using Mentimeter, and implement activities that encourage empathy, understanding, and nonverbal communication skills.

Overcoming Workplace Challenges

Addressing negative individuals in a compassionate and supportive manner, gaining management's buy-in for positive change, and engaging in productive dialogues can help overcome differences in opinions and create a more positive work environment. Embrace the importance of understanding toxic positivity versus fostering positivity, and focus on finding common ground through active listening and open communication.

Detailed session description

During this session, Aurelie Litynski explains how people can better manage stress and improve focus at work by developing greater self awareness and creating practical habits that support their wellbeing. She highlights that stress is not always negative, but that finding the right balance is essential to avoid both burnout and disengagement.

Through interactive exercises, she encourages participants to reflect on their emotions, understand their stress levels, and recognize how positive mental health contributes to stronger performance, creativity, and resilience.

Aurelie explores the main causes of distraction and reduced focus, distinguishing between external triggers, such as notifications and interruptions, and internal triggers, such as stress and anxiety. She introduces practical strategies including time boxing, organizing work into focused, creative, and routine tasks, setting clear boundaries around meetings and notifications, and scheduling time for meaningful activities.

She emphasizes that working smarter, rather than simply working harder, helps people improve productivity while reducing stress.

To conclude, Aurelie shares a practical toolbox for building long term resilience and maintaining focus. She demonstrates the box breathing technique as an effective way to regulate emotions and calm the nervous system, and encourages participants to celebrate small wins, prioritize wellbeing, adapt their meeting culture, and consciously decide how they want to show up each day.

She concludes that sustainable performance starts with self awareness, healthy routines, and a positive work culture that enables people to thrive both individually and as a team.

According to participants

What people said afterwards.

From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.

I loved the topic touched. Then I think it worth an entire day of discussion!
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
I loved the breathe box tool and I’m going to start using it right away.
In answer to “What have you learned?”
Very professional presentation. Thank you!
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
It was great to have an interactive session with mentimeter. Great tool!
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
I found this session very informative and gave me a different perspective on how to focus on my mental health.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Extremely useful session. I have learned that I can definitely make a difference just by changing the way I am acting. Sometimes I am the only one responsible for being in the 'Acc Trap'.
In answer to “What have you learned?”
That is ok to set boundaries in order to get the job done, it will be interesting how to implement those. Prioritizing focus time as a norm and making sure that one part is no skipped.
In answer to “What have you learned?”
It will be interesting to involve as many people as possible on such a masterclass. How can we bring this information to every single colleague, including everyone in a factory line?
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Before you book

Questions about Mastering our Stress Level and Boosting Focus at Work

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

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.

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

In this interactive expert session, Aurelie Litynski shares practical strategies to help professionals manage stress, improve focus, and build sustainable wellbeing at work. Combining insights from positive psychology with actionable techniques, she explores how to reduce distractions, regulate emotions, work more... 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.

Is this a workshop or a talk?

A workshop. The description of this session says so itself: the hour includes exercises and activities that participants do, not only an expert speaking. It still runs live and online, for as many colleagues as you want to invite.

Is Aurelie the right expert for this?

Aurelie Litynski is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 433 responses, and rate Aurelie personally 4.5 out of 5.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Aurelie, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

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.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

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.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

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.

How does this work under GDPR?

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.

What do we get afterwards?

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.

Other sessions by Aurelie Litynski

More sessions on Mental Health & Wellbeing

Newsletter

Leave your email address to subscribe to the Leqture newsletter