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Resilience training course impact

By Jan Lawrence | 27 August 2012

We have recently provided Resilience training for a UK council with over 10,000 employees. Here we summarise a report which outlined the impact of the resilience training and at the bottom of the page there is a link to the full report.

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Resilience – Learning to Become More Optimistic

By Jan Lawrence | 27 August 2012

Resilience – Learning to Become More Optimistic

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How to Sleep Better

By Jan Lawrence | 27 August 2012

Achieving good quality sleep is just a dream for many in the current 24/7 culture, this article provides some useful tips on how to get to sleep and to sleep better.

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Managing Stress at Work : Reducing Pressure

By Jan Lawrence | 05 January 2012

In seeking to prevent stress, the aim is not to reduce pressure for the sake of it. The right amount of pressure can be motivating and good for both health and performance. However, excessive pressure or demands will cause stress, especially when the pressure is unremitting or ‘chronic.

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Building Resilience : Healthy Self-Care

By Jan Lawrence | 15 December 2011

Building Resilience, an article outlining the 9 emotional needs which need to be satisfied in order to experience mental health, personal growth and optimum functioning.

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Managing Stress at Work – Early identification

By Jan Lawrence | 07 December 2011

  Early identification of stress and increased vulnerability 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 and increased vulnerability in others.  However, what we…

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Ask the Expert : How can I retain productivity but reduce stress?

By Amanda Furness | 05 November 2011

Question

I manage a young and energetic team of thirty. During the last year I’ve received more and more complaints from them regarding work stress. We’ve discussed some of the issues at team meetings. Can you suggest some practical tips which would help keep my team’s productivity up but make their work lives less stressful?

Dr George Madine indicates the range of factors which have to be considered when looking at such a challenging scenario.

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What is Resilience?

By Jan Lawrence | 16 August 2011

Resilience and the Adversities of Life Life is full of experiences of adversities.  Some of them are external such as fires, earthquakes, floods, wars, or violence.  Some of them are within the family, such as divorce, separation, abandonment, or loss of a job, home, or loved one.  And some of them are within the individual,…

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Managing Stress at Work: Tips for Providing Support

By Jan Lawrence | 29 July 2011

Taken from our one day Stress Management Training for Managers course these tips give managers a framework for providing support to their team.

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Newsletter 59 – February/March 2011

By Jan Lawrence | 13 February 2011

Our latest edition of In Equilibrium includes:
•A handy stress management tip which encourages you to challenge your initial assumptions about a situation
•A question about the new Equality Act in our Ask the Expert section
•An article which explains the 7 key areas you need to understand and manage if you are to become resilient
•A link to the results of the 2010 TUC survey which put stress as the most common health and safety problem in UK workplaces

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