How to stop stress affecting your bottom line

How to Stop Stress Affecting your Bottom Line

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View from the Top“Stressed-out workers are unhappy and unhealthy

workers too, so businesses that want to help their

staff lead more rewarding lives cannot fail to analyse

and tackle levels of stress within their organisation”

Steve Purdy – Regus UK MD

View from the Top“…The heavy toll of stress falls not only on workers,

but also on businesses as they that find their staff are

unable to perform as required, need more sick leave

and are less efficient.”

Steve Purdy – Regus UK MD

Statistics on Stress50% of professionals in SME’s report stress rise in 201213.7 million working days lost to stress & anxiety p/aCost to UK business: £14 billion p/aPresenteeism (work less productive than normal) costs businesses 105 time more than sickness absence

Source: Aviva/Regus

Stress TriggersManagement issues (doing more with less)Job security Mounting debtHigh cost of livingFeeling out of shapeGetting oldRelationships

Source: Benenden Health/Regus

So what is Stress?Response to external threatPicked up by sensesFight or Flight responseRelease of adrenalin and cortisolShut down of non essential functions

What is Chronic Stress?

Continuation of stress response after threat subsidesPhysiological damage: ulcers, diabetes, heart disease, brain damage, exhaustion, insomniaShortens life span – damage of telomeres

Roll-on EffectsCareer difficultiesEconomic difficultiesMore missed days at work leading to tighter deadlines and more stressRelationship difficultiesAddiction difficulties

Stress Reduction: Current Methods

Top down: Management Training (time management, motivation, leadership)Flexible working (65% surveyed suggested this)Incentives to increase moraleIncreased supportCommunication (acknowledgment/talking)Engagement

Current Methods: Problems

Training: Costly. Another thing to do. MisplacedFlexible working: Messy. Unproductive if mismanagedIncentives: Costly. TemporaryIncreased support: Costly. Time consuming Communication: Requires expertiseEngagement: Time consuming

There is another way…

A simple understanding of how stress is created in the first place - the real source of stress, is proving extremely successful

The New Approach to StressUsed in:US Penal SystemBusiness: BAE SystemsAmerican MilitaryAddiction counsellingStress Reduction

The New Approach to Stress

Our thinking creates the physical effect in the bodyUnderstanding ‘thought’ is the key to understanding the effectsNew approach is upstream of traditional ‘to do’ methods

The New Approach to StressEvery thought is linked to a feelingIf you think a sad thought, you’ll feel sadIf you think a happy thought, you’ll feel happyIf you have a stressful thought, you’ll feel stressed


If your staff are thinking stressed, they’ll be feeling stressed


We are always in the feeling of our thinking


Look, not at what’s being created (stress), but at what’s doing the

creating (thought) Understand the process


Event occursRecognised by sensesProcessed in brainThought = Feeling

The New Approach to StressAll living beings use 3 Principles to do this1. We’re alive2. We’re conscious3. We think

The New Approach to StressThrough this process, reality happens ‘for us’

INSIDE OUT

The New Approach to StressA realisation of this process leads to an insight:

“When we see that the feelings of stress are created by us, and not the

circumstance, we’re less likely to keep it up.”

The New Approach to StressA realisation of this process leads to an insight:“Like hitting yourself on the head with a frying pan. You see you’re the one doing it, you stop.

There’s nothing for you to do, other than… stop”

The New Approach to Stress1. See that you are doing the creating (via thought)2. Realise that this is ‘just’ thinking3. Wait for new thought4. Effects of stressful thinking reduces5. Clarity increases6. Productivity goes up

The Results

Reduction in Absenteeism

Reduction in project durations

Reduced Resource Requirement

Enhanced Teamwork

Enhanced group effectiveness

Specific Results• Manufacturing executives created, evaluated, and converged on a new

structure for their several-thousand-person organisation in just six hours

• In 15 minutes the executives of a £1-billion, food-ingredients company

resolved a structural problem with their Asian joint venture that had

defied solution for the previous six months

• Four executives reduced the annual £150m R&D budgeting decision

from a historically contentious, six-month process to a 45-minute

meeting

Source: Insight Principles


This approach is not a ‘doing’ processIt’s an ‘understanding’ process

Once realised, top down changes occurBottom line is affected

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If you would like to know more about a new approach to dealing with stress and how it effects

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