Can’t stand your boss but would rather let down her tyres than tell HR? Being bullied at the water fountain?
So stressed…so what?
Love it or hate it, we spend an ever-increasing percentage of our lives at work and if that time is stressful it can have an extremely detrimental effect on our lives.
Samaritans knows that employees want to be treated as people rather than just their job descriptions and so our Stress Down Day aims to raise awareness of stress in the workplace, equip employees with the coping skills to deal with anything that a working day throws at them and support organisational cultures to make for a more effective, happier and healthier workplace.
With the number of ‘stressed-out’ staff reaching epidemic proportions it is common sense that businesses address the problem of stress in the workplace now rather than letting problems escalate.
Why is the workplace a setting to promote emotional health?
This award winning CD-ROM, with its high quality mix of content and interactive elements, aims to reduce the potential for tension and stress within the workplace by developing managers skills and confidence to tackle problems before they escalate, increasing productivity and profitability.
The programme includes aspects of Samaritans unique “active listening skills”, which have now been adapted for use within the workplace.
Click here for more information.
So stressed…so what?
Love it or hate it, we spend an ever-increasing percentage of our lives at work and if that time is stressful it can have an extremely detrimental effect on our lives.
Samaritans knows that employees want to be treated as people rather than just their job descriptions and so our Stress Down Day aims to raise awareness of stress in the workplace, equip employees with the coping skills to deal with anything that a working day throws at them and support organisational cultures to make for a more effective, happier and healthier workplace.
With the number of ‘stressed-out’ staff reaching epidemic proportions it is common sense that businesses address the problem of stress in the workplace now rather than letting problems escalate.
Why is the workplace a setting to promote emotional health?
- Over a third of people identify work as being the main cause of stress.
- Half a million people say their work is so stressful that it is making them ill .
- Five million people feel very or extremely stressed by their work. Workloads and relationships with colleagues and management are cited as the biggest contributing factor, and to make matters worse managers feel that they don’t have the skills to deal with it.
- 12.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2004 at a cost of 3.8 billion.
- Absence from work due to sickness, costs UK business nearly £11 billion a year, but the estimated cost to society is nearer £23 billion.
- We have been experts in emotional health since 1953.
- Last year Samaritans received 4.8 million contacts from people wanting to talk about their emotional health.
- Up to 80% of Samaritans’ 202 branches already work with companies and schools, across the UK and Republic of Ireland, helping them to achieve an emotionally healthier environment.
- We have developed our WorkLife programme to tackle the problem of stress in the workplace and provide managers and team members with practical skills to deal with difficult people-based situations.
- Organisations want to use our sessions because they value the well-being of their staff and want to invest in the future of that well-being.
- We do not teach the latest management techniques or provide neatly packaged solutions. We are not business experts but we do know that an insight into people is crucial in the workplace.
- We want to equip companies with the knowledge to provide effective on-going support services to staff, promoting a work environment where fewer people reach crisis stage and stress-related illness is a thing of the past.
- Enables people to identify sources of potential stress and recognise the importance of achieving a health work/life balance.
- Teaches methods of effective communication to handle difficult conversations and situations, reducing stress and the risk of problems escalating.
- Highlights the dangers of making assumptions about who does or doesn’t need support in the workplace.
- Explores ways of dealing with both problems and people in a sensitive way.
- Uses fictional characters to look at specific everyday issues, avoiding people having to talk about personal experiences and feeling uncomfortable.
- Helps people assess their strengths and reflect on problems that might arise.
This award winning CD-ROM, with its high quality mix of content and interactive elements, aims to reduce the potential for tension and stress within the workplace by developing managers skills and confidence to tackle problems before they escalate, increasing productivity and profitability.
The programme includes aspects of Samaritans unique “active listening skills”, which have now been adapted for use within the workplace.
Click here for more information.
