Who should attend?
- Anyone wanting to understand the relationship between pressure and stress.
- Anyone concerned about their own mood or the mood at their workplace.
Background:
Many people/perhaps most people mistakenly believe that everyone needs stress and stress can be good for us. This belief comes from not understanding the difference between pressure and stress.
The UK Health and Safety Executive’s definition of stress states:
“STRESS is the ADVERSE reaction people have to EXCESSIVE pressure...”
How you participate:
- Participants carry out exercises individually and in small groups.
- There are graphical demonstrations of how excess pressure leads to stress and then to ill-health.
- Discussion of health implications of insufficient pressure and/or excess stress.
- A look at how and why we may deliberately increase our own stress levels and the "pick-me-ups" we use to maintain/live with high stress levels.
- Practical advice on what we can do to change levels of both pressure and stress in our lives.
Objectives:
Participants will be certain that the right amount of pressure is good and stress is always bad.
Participants will be able to discuss matters of pressure, stress and related health issues more efficiently with colleagues, occupational health and their family/friends.
The effect of stress on mood will be better understood and hence better controlled.
Alternatives to "pick-me-ups" will be discussed such that participants will be well equipped to break out of cycles that continually increase stress.
Benefits to your business:
This session can tackle a major business problem, which is that different levels of management have different views of pressure and stress and their roles within the business. This session results in everyone speaking the same language and so addressing problems in a similar way.
With stress-related illness now the number 1 cause of long term sickness, this course can work in a preventative way as control of stress and possible replacement with healthy pressure can make all the difference in avoiding serious illness.
Time for a session:
If your goal is provide a new perspective and clarification of language this can be achieved in as little as 90 minutes.
Alternatively a fuller picture of stress in the workplace, including HSE information and/or legal implications can be provided the same day. The length of the course is entirely dependent on your needs.
Suggested number of participants:
6 to 15
Things to consider before booking:
There are huge potential gains from appreciating the pressure and stress others are experiencing.
(Stress Adviser 's certificate)
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