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Corporate Stress Management Training

Why Stress Management Training?

Recent estimates suggest that job stress costs U. S. business more than $300 billion a year ($7500 per worker) in absenteeism, compensation claims, increased health insurance costs, and lowered productivity.

Even when workers shop up, a poor mental outlook or mounting stress takes its toll. A 2003 study defines "presenteeism" as the invisible loss when workers are at work but are unable to function to their potential. Ailments such as depression, fatigue, backaches, headaches, and stomach maladies cost employers more than $180 billion annually in lost productivity. As the president of one company puts it, "When a key manager is stressed out and frazzled, he isn't going to be productive even though he shows up for work every day."

This enormous loss is unnecessary.

Stress management training has been shown to have considerable benefits, both to individuals and to organizations. These benefits include:

• Improved mood and performance. A variety of studies have shown that regular stress-management and relaxation improves mood, sleep, sexual performance, memory, and work performance.
• Improved Health. As modern HMOs have discovered, stress-management is valuable both in prevention and the treatment of disease. A recent study of patients recovering from heart attacks suggests that relaxation can greatly speed up recovery time. One study of heart disease patients conducted at Duke University reports that stress-management training led to a 74% reduction in heart attacks or other cardiac events in a test group.
• Strenthened Immune System. Regular stress-management reduces stress hormones int he blood stream and strengthens the body's ability to fight disease.
• Cost Reduction and Productivity. Stress-management in organizations has been shown to reduce absenteesim, reduce health-care costs, increase job satisfaction, improve productivity, and increase company loyalty. Employees see stress-management training as something that will benefit them 24 hours a day, not just during work time.

What Is Our Approach to Stress Management Training?

Our Seminars emphasize a proactive approach to stress management- that is, teaching stress management techniques that can be used as part of one's daily routine, even when things are going well. This approach is used because:

• Practicing stress-management and relaxation techniques on a regular basis can make you relatively impervious to stress.
• The proactive approach to stress-management lowers your risks.
• Practicing stress-management and relaxation techniques throughout the day has continuous benefits for mood, performance, and health.
• With proactive methods as your first line of defense, you can still fall back on reactive methods whenever you need them.

We teach managers how to better communicate with workers to reduce stress in themselves and in employees. This involves the skill of "emotional intelligence" — recognizing more effectively how we are being seen by others, even if we don't see ourselves that way.

Our seminars and trainings can be tailored to fit the needs of your company. We have 4-hour programs, 8-hour (one day) programs, 12-hour (1 1/2 day) programs and 16 hour (two days) programs.

All of our programs integrate educational material, including videos, teaching of proven and practical stress-management techniques, self-assessment of stress-management skills competency, and non-threatening exercises to develop a personal stress-management program.

Stress-management skills that are taught have been proven to work- they are "empirically valid." In addition, we focus on techniques that are so quick and easy to use that they can readily be incorporated into people's everyday routines.

Because stressors often occur in areas of life outside of the workplace, we include a segment on stress management in relationships and marriages. This incorporates the latest research from the Gottman Institute in Seattle, Washington showing how stress affects couples, how men and women differ when stressed and how to deal with marital and family stressors.

For More Information

For more information on our On-Site Stress Management Seminars, Contact Dr. Tony Fior at 800-984-4414 (714-771-0378) or via email at drtony@angercoach.com