Stress Management

Effective management of Stress is becoming an increasingly important function within many organisations. Good Stress Management is not just "best practice" from a profitability and productivity viewpoint. Increasing employee awareness of the subject and a number of high profile tribunal cases have reinforced that this is an issue that cannot be ignored. This workshop is highly adaptable to the needs of individual clients and covers the key issues involved. What is Stress and what are the differences between personal and organisational Stress? What are the criminal law, civil law and other legislative issues? e.g. Health and Safety regulations. How to recognise the signs of Stress. How to measure Stress levels within the workplace. Policies and mechanisms for coping with personal and employee stress. Management disciplines and skills required to reduce Stress.

The option exists to have a one-day workshop covering the basic issues but also to extend the course to look in depth at the management skills of leadership, communication and effective team working. Effectively used, these can be used to dramatically reduce the causes of Stress in the workplace. This approach allows delegates to gain awareness of the subject during the first workshop, to return to the workplace and identify issues that need attention, returning to the second session (usually one week later) for management skills training and personal action planning.

Who should attend:

All managers with direct line responsibility for staff within the workplace or for people who may have an indirect effect on a workplace.

Course outcomes:

Increased awareness of the importance of Stress as a workplace issue as well as the legal and legislative issues involved. The ability to spot the signs of stress in the workplace as symptoms of underlying problems or practices. What to do when you spot the signs. An understanding of how to manage people effectively and prevent Stress in the first instance.

Teaching methods:

There will be a mixture of theoretical input from the tutor along with experiential learning and group discussion.