Can Stress Management Workshops Really Work?
By Chad Calven | May 6, 2008
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Stress management workshops are available to organizations in order to assist in helping employees to de-stress during their working day and week. The idea behind these workshops is to eliminate stress and increase employee productivity.
Seen as a way of increasing the quality of life, not just at work but at home too, stress management workshops and programs are offered to employees generally at the expense of the organization.
Generally a doctor who specializes in stress management will create a workshop or program that employees will follow over a period of time. These programs can include various types of stress-relief initiatives which could take the form of massages, consistent breaks ranging from 15 minutes to an hour and consultations with doctors, to name a few. The basic idea is to get the people involved to relax and ‘take a breather’.
Working from home is a type of workshop which could be offered by employers. It’s not something easily implemented though as there could be confrontation with the employees who cannot be out of the office due to their job roles.
There will be people, despite the stress relief benefit of working from home, who may take advantage of the situation and not have the discipline to do their job. Your home is generally a more comfortable place to be and there are added benefits of not having to deal with the stress of driving in traffic but there are also lots of distractions around the house.
Working at home as part of an effective stress management workshop should be seen as a benefit to a healthy working environment by employees and employers will have to learn to trust individuals.
When you think of all the serious health conditions and illnesses caused as a direct result of stress, it is not surprising that like stress management workshops are being implemented as a tool to combat stress in the workplace. Companies cannot afford the increasing absenteeism associated with stress.
Individual companies or consultants offer stress management workshops with the intention to:
1. efficiently lower the level of stress an individual might have in their job
2. improve productivity and general work habits of an employee
Happy and stress-free employees are generally more productive and companies realize this is more beneficial to the organization as a whole. It remains important however that stress management workshops not become a burden to employees. They need to be structured correctly and implemented consistently.
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