Coping and Stress Profile Online Version
Exploring Coping and Stress in Two Areas: Personal and
Professional
The Coping & Stress Profile® is a unique, self-directed
learning instrument that provides personalized feedback on an individual’s
responses to the stress and coping resources he or she has. The profile uses
an engaging process of personal learning that helps individuals uncover and
explore:
- Stressors in their personal and professional life
- Coping resources that
can be used to decrease stress
- The level of satisfaction in their personal
and work lives
- The relationship among stress, coping resources, and overall
satisfaction
- An action plan to reduce stress and increase satisfaction
Helping People Manage Personal and Work Stress
Today's workplace demands high performance of its employees, but that no longer
means putting work ahead of everything else. Organizations formerly disregarded
the need to balance life outside of work and accepted the fact that productivity
suffered as a result. Today's more dynamic, team-oriented organizations require
flexible, creative, sustainable performance, the kind that comes with people
who know how to balance the urgent demands of work life and personal life without
sacrificing either.
Discover the Power of Relationships
Other stress-management approaches focus primarily on using personal coping
resources such as exercise, nutrition, and building self-esteem to deal with
stress. The Coping & Stress Profile focuses on relationship coping resources
as the most critical component to affect the relationship between stress and
satisfaction.
Learn Four Key Coping Resources
Four key relationship coping resources are:
- Problem-Solving – The ability to directly address
difficult situations and make positive changes to resolve them. It builds
upon creative skills, and it results in new solutions to issues.
- Communication – The act of sharing ideas and expressing
emotions to other people in order to promote mutual understanding. Opinions
and feelings are expressed fully so that people know where they stand.
- Closeness – The degree of mutual support that people
have with their peers. Individuals can open up to one another without fear
of judgment.
- Flexibility – The ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
This refers to the degree that people are willing to change their approaches
to tough situations.
Improve
Performance and Increase Satisfaction
The Coping & Stress Profile helps
people in organizations:
- Discover stress issues and capitalize on coping strengths to manage stress
- Learn to minimize or eliminate common daily stressors
- Identify areas for coping-skills improvement
- Develop flexibility in responding to change
- Communicate more effectively to improve problem-solving
- Build mutually supportive relationships