Beating the Beast : Managing Stress

According to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE): work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounted for an estimated 11.4 million lost working days in Britain in 2008/09.

Typical symptoms of stress include:

• Problems sleeping
• Panic attacks
• Feeling low
• Changes in appetite
• Reduced sex-drive
• Irritability
• Relationship problems
• Forgetfulness
• Reduced enjoyment
• Stomach upsets
• Persistent headaches
• Raised blood-pressure

Our one-day training session delivered by a psychiatrist with many years experience in treating stress-related illness can give people the tools they need to beat the beast.

Benefits to the organisation:

• reducing absenteeism by:
  • avoiding mental injury and preventing serious mental illness (with all its associated costs to the organisation)
  • reducing absences due to G.P Visits
  • reducing stress-induced accidents
• improving morale
• increasing productivity
• empowering people to take responsibility for their own health

Managers can learn how to manage their own stress and how to recognise and help minimise stress in their teams.

Front-line, admin and reception staff can learn how to recognise when the beast is on their case and how to deal with it before it becomes a real problem.