Lynda Emmett
Goodbye Stress,
Hello Success!
Stress can have a corrosive effect on workplace behaviour and culture. It can lead to increased rates of illness & injury, workplace conflict, a rise in disputes and a decline in employee relations. All of these things can have a serious, negative business impact.
Workplace stress & Anxiety
Statistics released by the Government’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal that in 2017–18 there were 595,000 workers suffering from work-related stress, depression or anxiety and that 15.4 million working days were lost as a result on the rise
Research indicates that a significant number of people are suffering from workplace stress. This isn’t good for employees or business. It’s detrimental to productivity, work quality, work and personal relationships, well-being and ultimately business success.
Did you know that Stress in the workplace is a recognised occupational hazard, which must be addressed and managed in accordance with the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.
Workplace stress & Anxiety
- Problems with concentration, fatigue, irritability, reduced productivity.
- Problems with managing anger
- Turning down opportunities due to unmanageable fears ( fear of public speaking, fear of speaking in meetings)
- Poor engagement
- Reduced social skills
- Reduced confidence in abilities leading to indecisiveness & poor decision making.
- Reduced ability to work within Teams: Poor engagement, planning less effectively, reduced target setting and achievements, taking fewer risks and more likely to plateau in career
- Feeling physical symptoms, headaches, shakes, bad stomach, restless etc. Developing clinical levels of anxiety (e.g., a diagnosable disorder) Possible job loss
Benefits of coaching for both business & stress management
Coaching has proven itself across the globe over decades to be a powerful modality for creating rapid positive transformative change in businesses Having a positive impact on both company culture & performance.
Coaching utilization is increasing because it is a very cost effective means of achieving phenomenal results for teams and businesses.
Coaching also builds in emotional Intelligence a powerful tool in combating stress & anxiety in the workplace leading to more focused engaged employees positively impacting business performance.
A study of Fortune 1000 companies using coaching showed these percentages of executives reported the following benefits from the coaching they received:
- An increase in productivity (by 53%)
- Increased customer service (by 39%)
- Increased retention of senior people (by 32%)
- Reduction in costs (by 23%)
- Increased bottom line profitability (by 22%)
