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Page | 21 www.boostress.eu • Across the consortium, young professionals expressed a training need in the following areas: • time management • organisational skills to be able to deal with their workload • stress management techniques • skills for stress management • how to control my stress at work • recognising stress • Young professionals surveyed prefer to learn through: • Blended learning • Online training • Video lectures • Self-assessment tests • Online games • Handbook and or Guidelines • The least popular formats for providing training through BooStress included ‘online counselling’, ‘worksheets/hand-outs’ and ‘podcasts’. • Resources should be available online and accessibly through an app on smartphones and devices so that individuals can develop their stress management skills and techniques at a time and place that is convenient to them. • BooStress training materials should include case studies of stress management that young employees could relate to, opportunities for self-reflection throughout the training materials. • If possible, BooStress partners should develop training material in the form of an eBook that is available on Kindle and also an audio book, which young professionals could download and listen to when they are stressed or when they are trying to switch-off after work. • Employers recommended that training materials should be “employer-friendly i.e. cost neutral to implement.” • One recommendation from the European research group is that if a support group is established by the BooStress project team to support young professionals to develop copies strategies to manage stress, it is recommended that this support group is facilitated online through Skype or other online communication channel so as to reach all interested parties who may live in other EU countries or regions. • European stakeholders also recommended that before undertaking any training, young employees should be guided through a self-assessment process so that they can better understand what is triggering their workplace stress.