Life skills in the workplace

To provide individuals the opportunity of acquiring new skills and to enhance existing skills to develop inner abilities to cope with modern day demands within the workplace. The course reduces frustration and enhances general satisfaction and social functioning.

This course covers the following areas:
- Explore your level of well-being
- Identify your stressors and how to manage them
- Decrease frustrations
- Enhance communication skills
- Identify conflict management strategies
- Increase your self-knowledge
- Develop a balanced lifestyle
- Increase your self-assertiveness
- Improve productivity and success

Upon completion of this course the learning outcomes have been
successfully achieved if the delegates can:
1. identify those aspects that have a detrimental influence on
their wellbeing in totality;
2. identify their different stressors and acquiring stress
management techniques in order to prevent burnout and
depression;
3. demonstrate communication skills in the workplace;
4. implement conflict management and thus enhance
effectiveness in the workplace;
5. organise and manage themselves effectively according to a
balanced life-style to increase contentment with life;
6. identify and discuss passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive
and self-assertive types of behaviour-pattern that have an
influence on how people conduct themselves at work; and
7. understand the role that self-image plays and the influence
thereof on the different systems which the employee forms a
part.

Date: 05 October 2010 to 06 October 2010
Venue: Graduate Centre, University of Pretoria, Pretoria
Cost: R2 200 per delegate