Employee Stress Management

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Managing Stress
Requires
Managing How Your Body Reacts to Stress.

Lectures and workshops that teach you About stress, do nothing to relieve it.
Our program effectively Trains you to respond to stress more appropriately.

It is Both People Effective AND Bottom Line Effective.

A Certain Amount Of Stress Is Good

It helps you rise to the occasion, perform at your peak, conquer the challenges. It makes you stronger, healthier and more confident. However, excessive and / or prolonged stress is quite another thing indeed. And is certainly NOT Bottom Line Effective.

The People-Problems of NOT Managing Stress

A recent poll of 70,000 people named work or lack of work as the highest ranking Principle Stressor in America (Morse, 2004). Stress is invisible but the results of stress are not. People who have excessive or chronic (prolonged) stress may develop:

Signs Of Chronic Stress

Headache, Sleep Disturbances, Difficulty Concentrating. Short Temper, Upset Stomach, Job Dissatisfaction, Low Morale and Weight Gain.

Reduced
Productivity, Creativity, Enthusiasm, Motivation & Fellowship.

Impaired
Judgment and Reliance on Simplistic Thought Processes, even for Critical Decision Making.¹

Unchecked, stress may then lead to:
Lateness, Absenteeism, Employee Turnover. Increased Accidents, Errors and Mistakes, as well as Workplace Violence.

Suppressed Immune Function leaving us open to serious illness and disease.^2,3,5

"In New York, Los Angeles and other municipalities, the relationship between job stress and heart attacks is so well acknowledge, that any police officer who suffers a coronary event on or off the job is assumed to have a work related injury and is compensated accordingly (including a heart attack sustained while fishing on vacation or gambling in Las Vegas)."⁴

"Research shows that 60% to 90% of all doctors visits are stress related."⁶

"A landmark 20-year study conducted by the University of London concluded that unmanaged reactions to stress were a more dangerous risk factor for cancer and heart disease than either cigarette smoking or high cholesterol foods."⁷

"Numerous studies show that job stress is far and away the major source of stress for American adults and that it has escalated progressively over the past decades."⁴

The Bottom Line Problems of Not Managing Stress

"Job stress is also costly, with an annual price tag for U.S. businesses of over $300 billion annually (NIOSH 2001) due to increased absenteeism, employee turnover, diminished productivity, medical, legal and insurance expenses and Workers’ Compensation payments. Put into perspective, that’s ten times the cost of all strikes combined."⁴

Health care expenditures are nearly 50% greater for workers who report high levels of stress. —Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.⁵

Job stress is responsible for 40% of employee turnover. In America job stress results in one million absent workers every day.⁸

The Solution:

Conquering Stress
The ABOVE and BEYOND stress
Stress Management Training System

A 3 part system that trains you to BE & FEEL:
Significantly Less Stressed
More Calm and Comfortable
Healthier, Happier and More Confident.

Even in the face of stressful, difficult times and events.
After all - that's when it really counts.

This is a complete program in and of itself and can also dovetail into other stress management approaches available from others, such as:

Time Management, Job Redesign, Augmentation of Management Style, Improving Social Environment, Better Definition of Worker Roles, Attending to Employee Career Concerns, Addressing Environmental Conditions.

When utilizing some of these other possible interventions, our Stress Training can come before, during or after their implementation.
There will always be stress in even the most perfectly groomed organization. Some of which employees will bring in from their home environment, and if workers are unable to throw off stress, they will not be able to achieve there highest level of functioning - So you are still left with a stressed out, lower functioning workforce.

How Conquering Stress Works

Stressors trigger the Primary Stress Response. This hormonal cascade will dissipate quickly after the stressor is either dealt with or escaped from. This is how it should be. (Fight or Flight Response)

Job stress however, tends to be more continuous or at least is perceived as continuous. This prevents dissipation of the stress hormones and rebalancing of the system.

"The Relaxation Response is the opposite of the Primary Stress Response (Morse p.109)." As such, the ability to relax plays a major roll in how one reacts to stressors. (p. 40)

Simply put - If you can't manage your level of relaxation - you can't manage your level of stress.

Where almost everything Increases Stress - There are only a few things that reduce it.

Here They Are:

   • Immediate Vigorous Physical Activity (Not always appropriate.)

   • Some Medicines (Many anxiety meds list anxiety as a side effect??)

   • The Ability To Compartmentalize (Not ruminate on difficulties.)

   • Pleasurable Situations and Events (OK, maybe after work.)

   • The Ability To Self Manage and Relax. (There It Is ! )

       You Can't Be Stressed Out And Relaxed At The Same Time.
      When You Control Your Relaxation - You Control Your Stress

Program Outline

• Group Presentation
  A DVD program of 40 minutes. A 1 hour time slot
  allows 10 minutes for arrivals & 10 for departures.
  Requires an audio/video media room with seating.
  NO facilitator required. Press play & adjust volume.
            Adds strength to the main program, on the CD.
            Best results when experienced 4 or more times.
            Spaced from a week to a month or two apart.
            With regular use of the CD program in between.

• Daily Empowerment CD
  This is the actual program. The ability to reduce stress and
  the multitude of benefits; are derived from regular use of CD.
            (Also available as an MP3 download.)

• Relaxation On Demand
  Relaxation Management Training. Included on the CD.
  It's very nice to relax with the Video and the CD, BUT
            Cutting Through Stress "On The Fly"
                  That's what it's really all about.

• Support by:     Telephone,     Email,     Downloads.

What You Can Expect

You can expect: your employees to be more:

Relaxed, Confident, Productive, Interested, Patient, Energetic and Decisive.

You can expect: your employees to have better:

Concentration, Memory, Commitment, Sense of Humor and Positive Attitude.

You can expect:

a Calmer, more Efficient work place with Happier, Healthier employees that are on time more and absent less.

You can expect:

This Program to Cost - Less than you Expect.

Get Details            Frequently Asked Questions

Call or Contact Everett Horsley @ 856-547-5927 for more information.

References

Morse, D. R. (2004). Surviving Stress: Simple, Safe, Strategic Solutions. Virtualbookworm.com Publishing. College Station, TX

¹ Caine, R. & Caine, G. (1994). Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain. NY: Addison Wesley.

² Senior, K. (2001, Jan). Should stress carry a warning? The Lancet 357: 9250 p. 126

³ Wellbery, C. (2008, July). Chronic job strain increases risk of recurrent coronary heart disease. American Family Physician 78.1: p. 115

⁴ Stress In The Workplace, Job Stress, Occupational Stress. Viewed 7/14/08, Stress.org

⁵ NIOSH, Stress at work. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. 99-101

⁶ Perkins, A. (1994). Saving money by reducing stress. Harvard Business Review. 72(6):12

⁷ Cryer, B. (1996). Neutralizing Workplace Stress: The Physiology of Human Performance and Organizational Effectiveness. Presented at: Psychological Disabilities in the Workplace, The Centre for Professional Learning, Toronto, CA. June 12, 1996.

⁸ Farrell, F. (1994). The demoralized zone: Healing the downsizing survivors. Executive Direction, Sept/Oct: 37-43

Please Note;
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