Stress Management Training Plan Name Institution Affiliation Course Instructor Date 2 Stress Management Training Plan More employees go through a lot of stress in the workplace. They could be coping with rapid changes in the workplace, long working hours, or too much pressure. However, stress management training can help employees know the source of their stress, how they can reduce it, or provide them with the strategies, techniques, and tools they can use to keep stress in check. Topics to be covered The proposed stress management training will address the following topics: i) Understanding stress: underlying stress mechanisms, the relationship between stress and health, and how employees think about stress. ii) Understanding pressure: the relationship between pressure and stress, how pressure affects employee performance, differences between pressure and stress, how employees can put pressure on themselves, how pressure affects our brains and thinking iii) Fighting stress: determining sources of stress, managing sources of stress, assessing long-term stress, and improving working style. iv) Making decisions under stress/pressure: self-doubt and self-belief, peer and personal pressure, and decision-making pressures. (Management Training Specialists, n.d.) Methods for Tracking Training Attendance Tracking employee training helps determine things such as how many employees were trained, whether the training program was a success, and whether all employees received mandatory training. The following are methods that to track employee training: 3 i) Automated tracking systems: allows for rapid and real-time recording of mandatory training attendance data. ii) Web-based systems help employers monitor, collect, store and display attendance data; collected data can be stored on the cloud. (IceHRM, n.d.) In some cases, employees may fail to attend training due to several reasons. The best way to deal with such employees is to determine their reasons for non-attendance and then work on removing those barriers. Generally, the following methods can be used to increase the chances of such employees attending training in the future: i) Give them a reason to attend – explain to the employees the benefits of attending training. Use incentives that will culminate in long-term growth. ii) Make training sessions valuable – such as through personalizing content to making training sessions more engaging. iii) Create excitement/ make training sessions more fun – this can be done by designing the training program to be more interactive. iv) Make training sessions flexible – give employees the option of deciding when they can attend training; make everybody feel recognized and appreciated. (Hageman, 2019) Criteria for Selecting Training Vendor The effectiveness of employee training can be used to distinguish between a stellar organization and a failed company. Therefore, companies must be careful when choosing a trainer for their employees. The following are some of the criteria to consider when selecting a training vendor: