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Manage Stress: Practical Strategies for a Balanced Life
with Elise Phillips
Are you juggling multiple balls in the air with your busy professional and/or personal life? Are you always trying to develop strategies that can help you to navigate and manage your stress well?
During this course you will learn an innovative approach and practical strategies to help you to navigate your life by managing stress. We will explore current symptoms of stress, stressors, triggers, and thought traps and learn positive and practical strategies for managing and re-framing by exploring current skills. Give yourself a gift and join us. Continue to be a lifelong learner and promote positive wellbeing skills through managing stress that will enhance your life.
Outline of Course:
- Learn the basics of stress
- Identify stressors, sources of stress, and triggers
- Develop positive strategies to manage stress
- Develop a results-oriented stress management plan
- Learn a 6-step approach to manage stress - anywhere!
Course Format:
You can participate in this course via Zoom while eating lunch at your desk, walking on the beach, or in the woods. Just carve out a time and place that works for you.
Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.
Launch Your 501: Nonprofit Startup Essentials
with Angela Ackerman
Learn exactly how to turn your passion into a structured, mission-driven organization that can attract funding and deliver real impact. This three-session course breaks down the full startup process, including defining your mission, choosing the right 501 category, forming a board, and completing required state and federal filings. Participants also learn how to prepare for fiscal sponsorship as an early strategic step, including what sponsors look for and how to position your organization for acceptance and participants receive practical templates to move their nonprofit forward with confidence.
Ideal for: Entrepreneurs, community organizers, educators, veterans’ groups, nonprofit starters.
Take away: A Nonprofit Startup Action Plan, Board Engagement Template, and Structure Checklist.
Format: In-person at the Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Center location, 540 Main St., Hyannis.
Questions: Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.
Understand and Manage Burnout: Renew Your Energy and Focus
with Elise Phillips
Do you feel like you're burning the candle from both ends? Are you craving time to feel more balance, energy, and excitement? During this zoom session we will explore what burnout is, how it is affecting you, how to acknowledge and manage these feelings, and how to set priorities and boundaries.
We will look at how to notice and reframe the narrative you may be experiencing, and ways to integrate personal time into your daily life so that you feel refreshed and engage with renewed energy. You will leave this session with a plan that includes reframing your thoughts, and goals and strategies for change.
Goal: To understand and manage burnout for renewed energy
You will learn:
- What burnout is and ways to change and manage the narrative
- How burnout affects you
- How to set boundaries and priorities
- Strategies to become refreshed with renewed energy
Course format:
This class is offered using Zoom.
Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.
Management Essentials
with Angela Ackerman
As companies prepare for and experience success, a solid management team is imperative. This training provides both new and seasoned managers and supervisors with the expertise needed to lead today’s workforce by offering a foundation of essential skills, the support to apply what has been learned, and closes with a focus on how to sustain best practices.
Participants will develop the skills required to motivate employees, delegate responsibility, solve problems, resolve conflict and improve performance. By understanding how to use tools and strategies to positively influence and direct staff, managers can inspire and guide their teams in creating an increasingly positive and productive work environment throughout all departments.
Who Should Attend
New and seasoned managers and supervisors.
Course Format
This course is offered using Zoom.
Attention Employers: This Training is Eligible for Reimbursement!
Click here for eligibility and application process information. Or join us for an upcoming information session.
Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator, at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.
Mastering Stress: Practical Strategies for a Balanced Life
with Elise Phillips
Are you juggling multiple balls in the air with your busy professional and/or personal life? Are you always trying to develop strategies that can help you to navigate and manage your stress well?
During this course you will learn an innovative approach and practical strategies to help you to navigate your life by managing stress. We will explore current symptoms of stress, stressors, triggers, and thought traps and learn positive and practical strategies for managing and re-framing by exploring current skills. Give yourself a gift and join us. Continue to be a lifelong learner and promote positive wellbeing skills through managing stress that will enhance your life.
Outline of Course:
- Learn the basics of stress
- Identify stressors, sources of stress, and triggers
- Develop positive strategies to manage stress
- Develop a results-oriented stress management plan
- Learn a 6-step approach to manage stress - anywhere!
Course Format:
You can participate in this course via Zoom while eating lunch at your desk, walking on the beach, or in the woods. Just carve out a time and place that works for you.
Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.