In a challenging economic climate, boosting the productivity of your people is more important than ever to ensure the future success of your team and your organisation.
Everyone is feeling the pressure. But the latest evidence shows that unless you take positive action to enable your people manage those pressures, rising stress levels will actually lead to a decline in performance. This seminar will equip you to develop and implement a strategy that will enable your people to deliver sustainable, high performance under pressure. It will also offer valuable tips on managing your own stress to ensure you can maintain your energy, commitment and resilience to perform as an effective leader and manager in challenging times.
This course is part of our Leadership Suite.
24 April 2012 - Birmingham. Venue details.
Who should attend?
- Senior managers and executives: Directors and Heads of Service, People Partners and other Senior Managers with strategic responsibilities for people-management, performance, L&D, health and wellbeing, or CSR.
- Middle managers and line managers with responsibilities for managing people and their performance; L&D, health and wellbeing or CSR.
You will learn:
- The hard facts about stress, the negative impact on your business, what you can do about it, and how to do it:
- What stress is and how it affects performance and productivity
- The risks of inaction: the potential negative financial and reputational consequences of stress-related legal action by employees
- The opportunity cost of ‘do nothing’: how effective stress-management policies can enhance staff engagement, productivity and the bottom line
- How to develop a strategy and action plan that will enable your people to deliver the results you need through sustainable, high performance
- How to manage in a way that will enable your people to respond positively to pressure and meet the challenges of a tough business climate
- How to prevent, identify, and address the signs of stress in team members, so you can put in place appropriate support to maintain and even enhance productivity
- Tips for handling the pressures you face, so you can avoid the risk of burnout and perform at your peak
- Practical, low-cost solutions that can be implemented quickly and easily, and will deliver measurable results
Seminar style:
This is a content-rich seminar with the emphasis on practical, ‘how-to’ advice for implementing an effective stress management strategy to support sustainable performance. There will be the opportunity for discussion, group or pair work with tools and scenarios, and individual action planning.
About your facilitator
Your facilitator on this programme is Clare Casson. Clare has a background as a senior manager responsible for developing and managing people in both public sector and commercial organisations. She now specialises in helping leaders, senior executives and managers to get the most out of themselves and others by developing their capacity to perform under pressure. She is a qualified stress management consultant and member of ISMA (International Stress Management Association). She has previously facilitated leadership development programmes for the Work Foundation and now works as an independent consultant, coach and trainer. She has experience working with delegates from a diverse range of organisations, including NHS, Metropolitan Police, Lloyds Bank, The Law Commission and Discovery Communications.
