Recent stress management resources that have been added to the site
Added on Thursday 14 August 2008
This paper describes how an occupational health function has developed and implemented health initiatives to positively support business success and culture through focus on the sustainable healthy-high performance of the business, the teams within the business and the individuals within those teams.
Dr Adrian Chojnacki, Vice President, Employee Health Management, Mrs Susan Cruse, Director of Leadership Health and Sustainability, Dr Robert Carr, Vice President and Corporate Medical Director, GlaxoSmithKline
Added on Thursday 05 June 2008
Article by Alastair Taylor, Director, In-Equilibrium, 2008
This article challenges the recommendations regarding how to appraise expenditure on health and wellness programmes and proposes an alternative strategy HR Directors could consider to convince a sceptical Board to invest in their most important asset: people.
Added on Tuesday 15 January 2008
Biffa’s HR Director has stated:
‘The course, which has been rolled out to all our Managers, has been extremely well received and has provided practical and helpful advice in tackling, managing and reducing stress in the workplace. Dot Gourlay’s presentation and interactive style supported by excellent documentation has made the course even more enjoyable.’
Added on Friday 23 November 2007
NPS identified that something needed to be done as an organisation to tackle stress at work, assess risk, and develop specific strategies to prevent and reduce stress where reasonably practicable. In-Equilibrium carried out: consultancy, risk assessment, and training.
Added on Friday 16 November 2007
One of the difficulties with stress is that people experience stress in different ways. This contributes to stress manifesting itself in different ways also. So it would be wrong to over-generalise when giving advice on how to identify stress in others. However, what we can say is that in some way ‘stress will out’. By this we mean that, because stress has negative effects, it will usually manifest itself one way or another.
Added on Wednesday 12 September 2007
This case study demonstrates that assessing and managing stress risks need not be an onerous or expensive task, nor does it necessarily require a separate stress survey of all staff.
Added on Friday 07 September 2007
Hints and tips on stress management. Stressed out? You’ll find loads of helpful information here in our extensive guide to managing your own stress.
Added on Tuesday 04 September 2007
This is a very simple framework that works equally as well in terms of prevention of stress as it does in helping someone who is not coping. In other words you can use ‘CUSP’TM proactively and reactively. Here, we look at using ‘CUSP’TM proactively to prevent stress.
Added on Friday 31 August 2007
Research and experience tells us that if you can:
Enable increased perception of control;
Reduce uncertainty, and the associated anxiety and insecurity;
Provide support, especially in highly pressurised or stressful situations;
Tackle sources of pressure (stressors) in your work area…
..then you will minimise the risk of stress-related illness and increase wellbeing and performance at work.
Added on Wednesday 08 August 2007
Conclusion
Our clients agreed to establish a personal contract between the manager and assistant, with the support of ourselves. This proved very successful, and has resulted in a harmonious working relationship of the kind which the parties experienced in their earlier days.