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Thriving Under Pressure: Strategies for Resilience and Performance

Keep pressure at the level where you do your best work, with practical ways to manage your time and switch off.

  • 21 minutes
  • 6 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Use the stress performance curve to judge whether you're in your best zone
  • Plan your day with time blocking and short buffers between tasks
  • Decide what to do, delegate or delete with the Eisenhower matrix
  • Set boundaries, including saying no and switching off from work
  • Break a cycle of negative thinking by deliberately shifting your attention

About this course

When the pressure's on, breaks are usually the first thing to go. Lunch happens at your desk, the to-do list grows and a critical voice tells you everyone else is coping better.

A bit of pressure helps you perform, and this course shows you how to stay in that zone. You'll use the stress performance curve to check whether you're overstretched or under-stimulated. Then come time-management tools that work in a school: time blocking with small buffers between tasks, and the Eisenhower matrix to decide what to do now, delegate or drop. You'll also practise saying no, look at how perfectionism adds pressure, and find ways to stop going over the same worry.

Often the quickest win is deciding what can come off today's list altogether.

  • For early career teachers, middle leaders and 5 other roles. All phases.

6 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    1 min

  2. Define resilience and consider why it is important

    2 min

  3. Consider pressure and stress as concepts

    4 min

  4. Identify strategies for time management and quick task turnaround

    9 min

  5. Discuss some tips and strategies for your own mental wellbeing

    4 min

  6. What Next?

    2 min