MANAGING MYSELF: TOWARDS A SAFER LIFE

MANAGING MY SELF: TOWARDS A SAFER LIFE


Content language:English
Course description

This specific module aims to develop the RPAS trainees’ safety-based judgement skill as a whole, with a particular focus on workload management and stress management.

Prerequisites
No prerequisites are needed
Objectives

The trainee at the end of the course will be able to:

  • Understand workload and stress management concepts and their role to a safer work-life
  • Understand different strategies of workload and stress management
  • Apply in daily life workload and stress management tools
Program

The contents of the whole training will be:

  • Stress: What? Who? And How?
  • Stress Management
  • Workload Management as an Enabling Tool
  • What: Getting to know yourself
  • Why: Defining your goals and targets
  • How: Being productive is focusing on what is important and urgent
  • Feeling Stressed:  Why and When
  • Feeling Stressed:  How to cope with it

The topics will be covered in 3 video lessons, which are complemented by WorkBooks.

Exercises

During the training the participants will fill out the following exercises:

Multiple choice questions

Case study: Case study exercises commonly present trainees with real problems faced by professionals in the real world. Usually, students are provided with a set of documents/information outlining a specific problem or situation, requiring the trainee to formulate a plan of action to solve/address the issue.

Glossary exercise: it aims to assess the trainees’ comprehension of the key concepts of each lesson. Considering that, each student MUST insert AND define 2/3 concepts per lesson, which they learned and identified as crucial.

Concept map: Similar to a web that gives a visual representation of a students’ comprehension of a specific topic and the relations that they can make between different concepts.

Other exercises to stimulate learning and participation.

Professor
Marta Pinto
Video professors
Prof. Marta Pinto -
List of video lessons