Impact on the Organization
Even the best organizations are highly stressful: individuals must cope with unprecedented amounts of information, intense pressure to succeed, and extensive responsibility for their colleagues, subordinates, suppliers, and customers. Organizations that don’t help their workers manage stress encounter workforce “burnout” – which translates directly to higher turnover, lower morale, higher workers’ compensation claims, workflow disruption, inefficiency, and ineffectiveness. Simply stated, if you want to build a highly-productive, high-performance organization, you must give individuals the insights and tools they need to handle stress.
Learning Objectives
- Identify areas, causes, and signals of stress
- Identify specific behaviors that can reduce stress
- Master powerful ways to take control of stressful situations
- Identify techniques for smoothly handling multiple priorities without excess stress
Program Description
This module covers both personal and workforce stress. It is designed so that participants can work individually, maintaining privacy and confidentiality even in a workshop setting. Participants are introduced to the warning signs of damaging levels of stress, and taught proven skills, tools, and techniques for reducing stress. Participants are then guided in developing their own personal strategies for effectively managing stress. Significant time is spent on prioritization, organization, planning, handling multiple priorities, and delegation.
Time Investment
Typically 4 hours.
Customization
This program can be customized to reflect your organization’s procedures, policies, cases, examples, and terminology. Please inquire about these optional consulting services.