3 Managing yourself

In this section you will look at three very closely related skills which will help you to manage your working life, and the balance between your working life and your social life or family responsibilities. These skills are: organising yourself, managing time and managing stress. Unfortunately, there is no universal prescription for any of these skills. However, you will consider what events make you stressed, the impact that different demands and pressures have on you, and different ways of dealing with them so that you can maximise your well-being. This means identifying the strategies that you can use not only to cope with stress, but also to prevent it and achieve a better balance between your working life and your social life or family responsibilities.

You will be asked to think in a very practical way about how you manage yourself in the workplace and what works best for you in managing workplace pressures.