The Power of Good Stress

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 45 to 60 minutes
Resilience and Being Change Ready micro course
Course overview
Learn how stress can sharpen focus, how your stress mindset shapes its effects, and when to use stress or reduce it.
  • Video time: 3 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

Describe how short-term stress prepares the body and mind for a challenge, and how it differs from chronic stress.

A tool you can use this week

The Stress Signal Check: notice the signs, name what the stress is telling you, then use it when the challenge is right-sized or reduce it when it is too much or lasts too long. The worksheet helps you apply it to a real situation this week.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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