Springboard: Stress As a Competitive Advantage

In this Bigger Brains course, you’ll learn why traditional stress-reduction techniques often fall short—and how shifting your mindset can turn stress into a powerful resource. You’ll explore the metaphor of the “tiger” to better understand your body’s natural stress response and see how experiencing that response fully can lead to greater resilience. You’ll discover the concept of stress inoculation, examine how successful individuals use stress to their advantage, and learn how your beliefs about stress can directly impact your health and performance. 

You’ll also gain practical tools to transfer anxiety into excitement, use anger to pursue purposeful goals, and avoid common mistakes when channeling stress. You’ll explore the emotional dimensions of arousal and valence, and see how micro-goals, a shared purpose, and a deeper “why” can help redirect stress into momentum. Finally, you’ll learn how stress can strengthen relationships, deepen meaning, and even lead to post-traumatic growth, transforming challenges into lasting personal and professional development. Get ready to springboard using the FEAR[less] model. 

Topics covered include: 

• Recognizing the limitations and ineffectiveness of traditional approaches to stress 

• Identifying the importance of changing our relationship with stress 

• Describing the process of stress inoculation 

• Citing examples of successful individuals using stress as a resource 

• Discussing the role of stress in growth or accomplishments 

• Identifying steps to transfer anxiety to excitement 

• Explaining the health impacts of individual beliefs about stress 

• Using anger to attain purposeful goals 

• Identifying mistakes often made in the process of using stress to your advantage 

• Discussing how micro-goals redirect stress and build momentum 

• Discussing how a shared purpose and a bigger why help to redirect stress 

• Defining Post Traumatic growth as it relates to stress 

Enjoy award winning HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains style! Our courses are information-rich and convey important topics with an engaging mix of video and graphics. With short video lessons, they provide the perfect tool to educate today’s busy workforce. All lessons include captions and transcripts in 30 languages, downloadable handouts, and optional LinkedIn digital badges on course completion.