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Performance Under Pressure - Taking Action (Udemy.com)

Understand Your Reactions, Take Action, Deal with Colleagues, and Be Always Ready for Potentially Stressful Situations

Created by: Sorin Dumitrascu

Last updated November 2025

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What you will learn

  • avoid overanalysis and overconfidence in high-pressure situations
  • understand the challenge in a high-pressure situation from emotional reactions
  • manage your automatic thoughts to optimize perceptions in high-pressure situations
  • follow appropriate steps in the process of taking action in a high-pressure
  • take effective action to resolve a challenge in a high-pressure situation

How it compares

Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 34% of them
  • Reviews1,495#184 of 1,108 by number of reviews
  • Length1.9 hoursshorter than 60% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 60% of them

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Course Description

This is the second part of a series of three courses on Performance Under Pressure and focuses on Taking Action. And, in this course, you are going to learn not only how to take action under pressure, but also how to avoid over-thinking and over-confidence, and understand what exactly the challenge is.

Acting effectively in high-pressure situations is not easy. Over-confidence can lead to poor judgment, and over-thinking the situation can lead to paralysis. Also, your perception may become clouded by negative thoughts and emotions in times of pressure. But it's exactly at these times that you need to perceive the challenges most clearly so that you can set appropriate goals and take effective action to achieve them.

This course sets out some principles to help you avoid the dangers of overconfidence and overthinking, which can impair your performance when under pressure. It then teaches a technique for clarifying your perceptions in such situations and creating an action plan to optimize your performance under pressure.

Professionals who want to develop their abilities to manage the stress that comes with working under pressure, and those who want to develop or refine their skills for performing under pressure will benefit from this course.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • avoid over-analysis and over-confidence in high-pressure situations,
  • understand the challenge in a high-pressure situation from emotional reactions,
  • manage automatic thoughts to optimize perceptions in high-pressure situations,
  • use appropriate steps in the process of taking action in a high-pressure situation, and
  • take action in pressure situations to match every challenge.

So, thank you for considering this course. The course includes video lectures, quizzes, examples and exercises and a small optional course project. All should take you not more than 2 hours to finish.

The course comes with a 30 days, no question asked, guarantee. Now, go ahead and hit that "Take the course" button, and see you on the inside!

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Instructor Details

Sorin Dumitrascu

I'm Sorin Dumitrascu. I work as an advisor for an international humanitarian organization. Until 2025 I was City Manager of Ploiești, Romania (a city budget of about EUR 200 million), and earlier I was Deputy Director General of Romania's prison service. Since 2015 I have published nearly 200 courses here, taken by more than 360,000 learners.

I'm a public manager and a trainer of trainers, with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering practical courses in management, human resources, project, program and portfolio management, business analysis, operations and finance.

I teach what I practice. I have led and advised projects for the United Nations, the European Union, NGOs and private companies, with a focus on measurable results in organizational performance, industrial relations, prisons and corrections, and adult education.

My courses are built for busy professionals:

- Courses that prepare you for PMI and HR certification exams, plus Six Sigma

- Real case studies from the public sector and from companies

- Templates, checklists and practice resources you can use right away

- Clear, step-by-step lessons with practical assignments

Education: MSc in Policy Making in the European Union (Loughborough University, UK); Bachelor in Administrative Sciences (Public Administration), University of Craiova; Public Manager Diploma, National Institute of Administration (Romania).

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Reviews

4.5

1,495 ratings on Udemy

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By John Dole on 12/12/2022

I rarely leave a rating, but this is only 1.5 stars. Of course, I should give constructive criticism. I would also leave some suggestions if the course decides to get updated. Real talk here.... First of all its hard to understand the accent. The problem with people who has a strong accent is the first 2 minutes they enouciate. But after a while the lack of movement in their mouth, face. Lets say you were saying tree, but without smiling ear to ear eeeee sound, then it gets distorted like trae... That is what happens all the time after 2 minutes. A solution is just introduce each section, use a computer voice to say it or hire a different voice person. Just because the person who made this course wanted to do everything. It made it so hard to understand after a while, even with subtitles. Yes I can read the words, but the accent, just stops my brain from processing it. The second constructive criticism is this not for entrepreneurs or solopreneurs. Its always using a reference of a team as if you were an employee. While I do have a small team, for certain parts of my business, I don't want under other people. All of it talks about how you can change your mindset, beliefs to choose a better path to help your boss and you move forward. I don't have a boss. Even if I could of used the mindsets of over thinking or over confidence as an overiding theme. It doesn't need to even be this long. This could of been all explained for this course in less than 30 minutes. Its overcomplicating, too logical, too left brained in your head kind of thing. I just needed to improve taking action. It feels more like rationalizing it, more than taking action. On top of that with the really hard to hear accent, no matter how much I tried to like this course. Then the course tells you what is the right way or wrong way to deal with your boss which I don't have. Then with the hard to hear accent, I can't even process what they trying to say. Its like i'm supposed to make realizations. At the end of this course, I haven't learned a single thing. I've studied this topic extensively on productivity from books, courses. Its something i'm deep diving into. But out of all the materials as I finally went to udemy, this was the least helpful. I could reference other authors that gave much better practical advice. Even if you feel this is practical rationalizing things, changing your mindset. It won't get me productive or taking action. My suggestion is get a new voice artist to speak this course. Second, add a new section for entrepreneurs who are stuggling to take action. How to utilize the over confidence section and too much rationalization to unlock the mind. I shouldn't have to figure out how to apply this cause I have no idea how. Even if I knew that, how would that help me? I may realize there is a problem with over thinking or overconfidence. But there are no tools here to help me. If it feels like this review is unfair, remember, I wanted to like this. I really did, cause I invested in this. But like all investments, its okay if one doesn't work cause I already learned over a dozen on the same topic. I'm fine with that. If anything I might get out of this, that the mind can slow things down or clog itself. But still, how does that help me knowing that? its like knowing you been injured, but how does that help me? Do less of this or that? okay...

By Jeremy Hobbs on 6/22/2022

I'm a high-performing individual and I've been in the marketing industry for years and this was my first online course. I bought it because I wanted to be the best I could possibly be and to get the latest methods to help me stay one step ahead of my competition. This course was the best thing I could have done because it has helped me grow my lists, make more sales and I've even taken time to review a product on Amazon. I love being able to create content and work with my clients to help them grow their business and this course has helped me do just that.

By Juergens Carlyle on 6/21/2022

I was very impressed with the Performance Under Pressure - Taking Action course by Sorin Dumitrascu. The course was extremely well organized and easy to follow. Sorin is an excellent instructor and provided a lot of great tips and techniques that I was able to apply to my own work. The course was definitely worth the investment and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to improve their performance under pressure.

By Thompson Brooke on 6/20/2022

Udemy is the ideal place for learning, and the Performance Under Pressure course is an amazing way to learn how to take action in a stressful situation. The instructor, Sorin Dumitrascu, has created a high-quality and engaging course that will really help you to be able to overcome your fear of failure and just do it. I highly recommend taking this course if you're looking to conquer your fears and really be able to take action when the time is right.

By Morgan Campbell on 6/14/2022

I was really impressed with Sorin's Performance Under Pressure - Taking Action course. The content was well-organized and easy to follow, and Sorin's delivery was engaging and informative. I learned a lot about how to stay calm under pressure and how to take action when it matters most. The exercises at the end of each module were especially helpful in putting the concepts into practice. I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their performance under pressure.

By Julianna Jewel on 6/9/2022

If you're looking for a course that will help you take action under pressure, Performance Under Pressure - Taking Action is the perfect choice. Instructor Sorin Dumitrascu provides clear, concise instructions that will help you stay focused and achieve your goals. The lessons are easy to follow and the exercises are helpful in putting the concepts into practice. I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their performance under pressure.

By Rose Willams on 5/12/2022

If you're looking for a course that will help you take your performance to the next level, look no further than Performance Under Pressure - Taking Action by Sorin Dumitrascu. Sorin is an expert in the field and knows how to help you overcome your fears and achieve your goals. The course is well-organized and easy to follow, and Sorin's approach is both practical and motivational. I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to improve their performance under pressure.

By Dona Barber on 5/9/2022

I thoroughly enjoyed this course! The instructor, Sorin Dumitrascu, provides great tips and techniques that can be used in any situation to help you stay calm and focused under pressure. The lessons are easy to follow and the exercises are helpful in reinforcing the concepts. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone looking for ways to improve their performance under pressure.

By Janet Spaulding on 11/22/2020

It was good. The PDF's on "Countering Over-Thinking" and "Preventing Thought Distortions" were very helpful (and encouraging).
I have especially enjoyed some of the Announcements/Articles that the instructor has sent out after the course. The instructor seems actively involved even after the end of the course - I have appreciated that, and I appreciate his effort.

By Gustavo Navarro Ayala on 10/27/2020

Excellent course!

By Leena Sokk on 10/16/2020

Yes so far this course has been encouraging.

By Frieda Kunze on 10/13/2020

Kyle is a very motivating and Inspiring Instructor/teacher. The Entire Course was structured in a such a way that one could easily understand and use them. Thank you Sorin and Udemy.

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