The Cost of Stress to an Employer

• FACT: If an employee is stressed, performance drops by an average of 40%. Source: (HSE) Health and Safety Executive
• FACT: A recent survey showed that 92% of employees were suffering from stress at work. Source: Skillsoft/Personnel Today
• FACT: For every £100,000 of your monthly wage bill (say 50 employees at a gross salary of £2000 per month and let’s say 70% of employees are stressed), you are wasting £40,000 x 70% = £28,000 a month
• FACT: The average employee is absent 7 days per year at a cost of £517 and over 70% of absenteeism is down to stress. Source: CBI Confederation Of British Industry
• FACT: If you have 50 employees, then absenteeism due to stress is costing you £18,095 per year.
• FACT: That’s a total cost of £354,095 per year that doesn’t have to be there.

So what is your monthly nominal vs. actual wage bill? What could your company be saving by tackling stress?

How does Stress affect Business?

The current economic climate dictates that stress is everywhere, especially at work. This leads to defensive and sometimes aggressive behaviour at work, because with this mindset everyone is out for themselves; any sense of teamwork can go out of the window. In addition, stress drastically reduces productivity levels and whilst people may be working longer hours to show their commitment or to get the work done, they are dramatically less efficient.

Does this sound familiar for any of your employees?

• Working longer hours to keep up
• Relationships at work increasingly difficult
• Not doing what you asked
• Not working to full potential
• Feeling under-confident
• …or not motivated
• Reacting rather than being pro-active
• Often not concentrating properly
• Brain Fog
• Get grumpy too easily
• Disengaged at home and at work

Isn’t Stress at Work difficult to deal with?

In fact, it is one of the easiest cost reductions you can make. But dealing with stress doesn’t just reduce costs, it makes for a happier, more cohesive and more efficient workforce: a more positive working environment, more teamwork, more motivation…more results.

Your company could be like this:

• Healthy, vibrant employees with real work/life balance.
• Real teamwork and co-operation.
• Fast and effective meetings.
• Proper lunch breaks.
• More enjoyment and fun.
• People totally committed to their work and the future of the company.
• Accurate, productive work.
• Excellent employee relations, and leadership.
• Excellent customer and community relations.

Programme Structure and Delivery

The Wellbeing Rules Programme is a two day workshop. The first day is spent understanding how the Mind works, where stress comes from and how to beat it. The second day will look at lifestyle changes including relaxation, nutrition and exercise. These will be changes that can be applied at home and at work. Part of Day 2 will putting together ideas for initiatives within your company that will beat stress at work; you can then make proposals to senior management on your return.

Programme Outcome

• Find out what’s holding you back
• How to break out of negative programming
• 3 simple, vitally important lifestyle rules which will transform the way you think every day
• How to really motivate yourself and your employees
• 1 simple piece of learning that will show you why all other approaches to personal change are so hard

• A real understanding of Emotional State and how the mind works in giving you feelings you do want and feelings you don’t want.
• Through the latest advances in NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), Coaching, Lifestyle Management and Nutrition, you will learn real “how to’s” in managing not only your own stress, but you will also have solutions for struggling colleagues at your company.
• The ability to make a difference to the lives of those you work with, the ambience at work and ultimately the profitability of the company.
• Two days of fun, action-packed learning about something that is becoming an increasingly damaging part of modern life.
• Unlike most courses on stress, you’ll get real solutions.
• A real understanding of what stress is and how it works
• How to recognise stress before it manifests and where it comes from.
• A vast “toolbox” of practical, easy to use, everyday solutions for dealing with stress that can easily be passed on to others.
• How to prevent unacceptable levels of stress coming into your life.
• How to develop an outlook to maintain your own health and well-being
• Real life solutions
• Improved relationships and more harmonious and productive working environments
• Happier and more efficient colleagues