Managing Pressure
Reducing Stress in the Workplace
When you need appropriate support with stress prevention and stress management training or you want some tips on dealing with stress in the work place we can help you.
Taking time to explore our site will enable you to discover ideas and tools to deal with
- Managing stress at work
- Stress management training
- Coping with stress
- Building personal resilience
- Organisational health (Take time to look at the sample report for The Organisational Health Profile, our new on-line tool for assessing the organisation and identifying where the pressure and stress points are.)
How we handle pressures is linked to how we view them. Take some time to enjoy and appreciate the brighter colours of spring!
The current economic downturn means that stress and stress management is becoming a bigger and bigger issue for individuals and organisations. The effect is that pressures seem to be increasing on us from all sides, job security, workloads, financial worries, family stresses and strains and all manner of sources. Our ability to cope is being tested to the full. Reseasrch is showing that more and more people are being affected negatively - and yet organisations are rarely doing anything about it! For organisations, the lack of awareness of the consequences and costs leads to them doing nothing to prevent or minimise the impact of stress in the workplace. Too many employers seem to either think of stress and its related problems as a necessary evil, or as something they are powerless to do anything about. This is crazy given all of the evidence of the effect on productivity, morale and quality of work.
Management need to take more notice of this as it also has a lot of negative impact on them and their lives! (Length of time worked in a week; taking work home; being accessible in “home” time and even on holiday to name a few of the consequences.) Add to this, they have a “duty of care” to their employees and can be liable if they do nothing to support staff suffering from stress or put into repeated stressful situations. There are many things which the organisation can do from carrying out a stress audit such as The Organisational Health Profile, introducing stress management training or offering individual support where required. (We can help you with all of these!)
As individuals we can do more to help ourselves to manage stress better, whether managing stress at work or finding shorter-term solutions through developing some options for coping with stress. By learning more about ourselves and identifying what sources of pressure lead to us feeling stressed we can start to take action through areas such as building personal resilience.
We work with organisations, and individuals within them, to provide practical and sustainable solutions. Rather than just offer some short-term fixes, we support you in identifying the causes of stress and not just spotting the symptoms, and developing solutions which can have a lasting impact, helping to maintain productivity and reducing the costs of stress.