What seminars are offered by the EAP?

 
The Big D:  Understanding Depression

Each year, depression affects millions of people in the United States. The impact of depression is far reaching throughout the workplace and in our personal lives. Recognizing the symptoms and warning signals of depression is crucial.  Knowing how to and where to get help and treatment is vital for people who experience clinical depression. Participants will learn more about the specific symptoms, causes and signs of depression and ways to gain relief and recovery from this illness.

Stress Management

(Balancing Work and Home)

Balancing the time and energy needed for your job, yourself, and others is a constant struggle that can cause a great deal of stress.  This seminar will help you evaluate the ways in which your life may be out of balance.  You will learn how to rebalance your world.

Dealing with Change in the Workplace

In this seminar, all staff can learn the skills and techniques needed to meet the challenges of change and to develop a personal action plan for success in a rapidly changing business environment.  Why does change occur?  What can you do about it?  Tips will also be given to aide participants with assisting others to overcome their fears and/or reluctance to change.  This workshop will address how to take charge of change with a positive, proactive course of action.

Healthy Boundaries = Healthy Relationships

"Good fences make good neighbors." - Robert Frost 
Boundaries are our emotional fences and effect the type of relationships we have with family, co-workers, friends and even neighbors.  Participants will learn to recognize the "Who, What, Where and Why's" of unhealthy boundaries and how they affect their relationships.  Examples of healthy boundaries and their benefits will be offered.

Grief and Loss

All of us experience life changes involving losses. A change or loss of job, relocation, a death of a loved one, a divorce- all require some type of adjustment.  Recovering from a loss is individual to each of us; however, there are common feelings of mourning and recovery we experience in a healing process over time. This seminar will help us look at various losses we all face, the grieving process, "good vs. bad" grief, and ways to promote a healthy recovery.

How to Deal with Difficult People

Most of us come in contact with difficult people in our personal or professional lives every day.  How you handle difficult people may determine your success or failure on the job.  This seminar will help you develop strategies and skills for getting results from hard to handle people, whether they are employees, co-workers, or supervisors.

More Difficult People:  They're Everywhere!

In this seminar, all staff can develop skills and strategies for getting results from "hard to handle" people, whether they're employees, co-workers or supervisors.  This class will step beyond those topics discussed in "How to Deal with Difficult People" and help participants learn how to combat negativism in the workplace. 

How to Handle "Different" People

Many people are "different" than us in their behavioral and personality styles.  Instead of viewing those people as only "difficult," we can learn how to adjust and better handle our reactions to them. By taking a self profile test, we can explore the four (4) common personality profile styles, our own styles and behavior, why and how conflicts arise, and ways to reduce the conflicts and resistance in the workplace. Also, we will learn the "turn-ons and turn-offs" and how to motivate people toward positive results.

EAP: A Supervisor's Guide for Employee Referrals

UT Southwestern employees are also mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, and sons.  Their experience in any of these roles may affect their performance on the job.  This seminar will provide you an overview of the EAP.  It will focus on what the EAP does and how you can use the EAP to help employees who have personal problems which may affect their job performance.

   
Asserting Yourself in the Workplace 

Lack of assertiveness may make you feel uneasy and inadequate. The inability to assert yourself is the result of a set of learned attitudes and communication skills that can be changed.  The purpose of this seminar is to help you learn to change behavior in a positive way, to relate to others more effectively, and to learn to speak up appropriately when feeling devalued.

   
Parenting: How to Cope in Today's World

Parenting can be difficult under the best of circumstances.  It is even more difficult for the single parent, dual career parents, parents of adolescents and/or when there are parent-child conflicts.  This seminar will provide some pointers and strategies for you, as a parent, to more effectively deal with children of all ages in today's times.

   
Violence in the Workplace

Violence in the workplace has become a very serious problem.  One measure that will help prevent episodes of workplace violence is training employees and managers on how to deal with workplace violence situations.   This seminar will teach you what workplace violence is, the effects of violence in the workplace, causes of violence, what constitutes a threat of violence, risk factors, and what actions you can take to help prevent a violent episode.

   
Effective Communication

Professional communication skills are important in today's work environment.  Communication is the process that allows us to exchange information and develop or enhance relationships.  This seminar will assist you in learning proven methods that lead to effective verbal, nonverbal and listening communication skills.

   
Handling Anger in the Workplace

All human beings experience anger at some point in their lives.  It is important to learn how to control your anger.  In this seminar, through lecture and discussion, you will learn strategies for dealing with anger-provoking situations and controlling your anger in a positive manner.

Holiday Stress:  "Is it over yet?"

This one hour workshop can help all staff to learn effective coping techniques when dealing with holiday stress. Participants will discover how to identify their own personal signs and symptoms of stress and how to incorporate 10 proven tips to handling the frustrations of the holidays.

For more information, please call Patrick Tiner at:
(214) 648-5330

To preview and register upcoming Trainings and Workshops at UTSW please visit the online  Training and Workshop Home Page.

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