There is a difference between stress and pressure. We all experience pressure on a daily basis, and need it to motivate us and enable us to perform at our best. It is when we experience too much pressure without the opportunity to recover that we start to experience stress.  

A positive working culture has now become the expectation rather than the exception. The Institute of Business Ethics asserts that: “Without a positive and progressive approach to mental health and wellbeing, organisations run the risk of not moving with the times.  With younger generations more attuned to, and open about, mental health in the workplace, an obstructive or unhelpful approach within a company or its senior management could cause recruitment and retainment issues.”

Stress can place immense demands on employees’ physical and mental health and affect their behaviour, performance and relationships with colleagues. It is a major cause of long-term absence from work, and knowing how to manage the factors that can cause work-related stress is key to managing people effectively.

Smart employers know that organisations are only as strong as their people. They depend on having a healthy and productive workforce. Good mental health underpins this. By positively managing and supporting employees’ mental wellbeing, employers can ensure that staff perform to their potential – and this allows the business to achieve peak performance. Research shows that FTSE 100 companies that prioritise employee wellbeing outperform the rest of the FTSE 100 by 10 per cent. By supporting staff wellbeing, they reap the benefits through enhanced morale, loyalty, commitment, innovation, productivity and profitability.

Companies need to prioritise mental health in the workplace by promoting an open culture around mental health, providing mental health tools and support is crucial to this.

The twin goals of increasing employee engagement and creating a mentally healthy workplace are interdependent. Positively managing mental health underpins good employee engagement and benefits everyone – employees, employers and the bottom line. Engagement is about recognising that employees, if they are to perform at their best, must be respected, involved, heard, well-led and valued. Making changes that have a positive impact on employees’ experiences at work are integral. Approaches such as flexible working, building resilience and staff development contribute to good engagement.

6 signs of work related stress in your company or team:

• arguments.
• higher staff turnover.
• more reports of stress.
• more sickness absence.
• decreased performance.
• more complaints and grievance

Poor mental health costs the UK economy up to £99bn every year. £42bn of this is as a direct cost to employers lost through sickness absence and staff turnover. We know that there’s a huge human cost related to mental health, but these figures show the business case for addressing mental health in the workplace, with proactive employers also reaping the rewards of a more motivated, healthy workforce.

How to Live Your Best Life in the Corporate world.

I offer a bespoke 90-minute Zoom Workshop packed with evidence-based solutions that will build knowledge and skills including:

• The physical, emotional and behavioral symptoms of stress
• What happens in the body and mind when we experience stress
• Stress Coping Strategies to practice
• How to consciously take control and change the body/mind response to stress
• How we can take this further and build confidence, motivation and self-belief for the future
• An experiential introduction to NLP, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Please get in touch by emailing georgina@georginasaycetherapies.co.uk to discuss how I can bring my ‘Live Your Best Life’ workshop to your organisation.