Managers Managing Stress

What managers need to know and do to minimise stress risks at work.  

  

Managers Managing Stress has been specifically developed to meet the needs of organisations that have recognised the crucial role managers and supervisors play in the reduction and prevention of work-related stress.

This training on stress management is very practical and uses a number of specially developed diagnostic and proactive tools to minimise the effect of stressful situations on both people and the organisation. The course is regularly updated to take account of changes in stress-related legislation and recent HSE initiatives. Over the last 5 years, more than 200 organisations and over 10,000 managers have benefited from our training in managing stress at work.

The course is highly interactive and contains a variety of group and individual exercises, including case studies, scenarios, group discussion, personal reflection and action planning. The content can be tailored to meet each organisation's individual requirements.

One of the key objectives of this course is to enable managers to: 

• Identify the signs of stress in their team members
• Discuss the employee's stress triggers with them
• Agree individual strategies to be reviewed at a later date

  

Key benefits of the course

• Clarifies understanding of stress and the risk implications for employees and the organisation
• Enables managers to meet their legal and HSE compliance responsibilities
• Enables managers to ‘create the right climate' to encourage open discussion about stress
• Managers learn to identify stress problems early so that remedial action can be taken to minimise stress
• Equips managers with frameworks and practical approaches/ tools they can use to prevent stress
• Through context specific case study scenarios, managers learn how tools and frameworks can be applied in the workplace
• Enables managers to complete a full individual stress risk assessment if required
• Provides managers with extensive online resources with information and tools they can use after the course

  

Course Content

Introductions

Course structure, objectives and delegate expectations

Section 1 – Stress Awareness

• How stress relates to and is different to pressure
• Early identification of stress and stress-related problems
• Stress and the law, including HSE Management Standards
• Case study
• Work pressure profiling tool

Section 2 – Proactive Stress Management

• Creating a good climate
• The CUSP™ framework for stress prevention
• Stress prevention exercise and debrief
• HSE/CIPD Stress management competency indicator tool

Section 3 – Reactive Stress Risk Management

• Customised scenarios, that can cause stress; how to reduce the risk
• Individual stress risk assessment and management

Section 4 - Bringing it all together

• How to use the workbook and online resources on an ongoing basis
• Personal action planning

  

Managers Managing Stress - Workbook and Online Resources

• To view contents summary of workbook and online resources click here.  

• If you would like to look at extracts from our Managers Managing Stress course workbook please click on the links below:

  • Managers Managing Stress: Workbook Extract 1
  • Managers Managing Stress: Workbook Extract 2

Who should attend this Stress Management Course?

Senior Managers, Line Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors, HR/ Health and Safety/ Occupational Health Professionals, Trade Union Representatives

Stress Management Podcast - CUSP™ Framework Stress Prevention Tool

Click here to listen to our Consultant, Dot Gourlay, introducing a critically important framework called 'CUSP™' that you can use both to prevent stress and reduce the risk when stress has occurred.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of our managing stress at work training course please contact Alastair Taylor on Tel: 0800 622 6932 or e-mail: alastair@in-equilibrium.co.uk

I can honestly say that the Stress Management training day our Management Team participated in recently was one of the most thought-provoking and impactful events of this nature that I have attended. My objective was for us to obtain a collective understanding of the nature of stress in the workplace and strategies to address it. This was met 100% and we are now working on a cross-organisational action plan. Our facilitator was outstanding and was able to attend to our individual and collective needs as well as our lively and enthusiastic participation!

Shirley Evans, Director Business, Enterprise and Development, The Royal National College for the Blind