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Stress Awareness Course

In our 40-minute stress awareness training workshop, Elston HR helps your leaders and managers to understand how causes of workplace stress can be effectively identified and managed successfully, and how you can improve employee welfare and well-being.

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About Our Stress Awareness Course at Elston HR

Stress is an inevitable part of daily life, and it’s quite normal to feel stressed from time to time. Moderate levels of stress can actually be helpful in motivating and energising you and can enhance your performance and sharpen your focus.

But when stress levels become chronic and overwhelming to handle, they lead to negative effects on your physical and mental well-being. A Labour Force Survey estimated that 776,000 workers were suffering from work-related stress, depression, or anxiety from 2023 to 2024 alone. 

Unmanaged stress at work can severely impact employee performance and mental health, and in turn, decrease organisational productivity. Stress at the workplace is linked to higher levels of employee absenteeism, burnout, and turnover, leading to a poor work culture that can derail businesses and organisations. All organisations in the UK need to ensure the safety and health of all their employees, and that includes minimising work-related stress.

You’ll learn how to adopt various practical tools and strategies where managers, team leaders, and employees can deal with stress and reduce it to a manageable level.

‍Download our brochure to enrol your managers in our stress awareness course.

A Snapshot of Our Stress Awareness Training Workshop

Description

Help your managers recognise the signs of stress in their employees and learn ways to support them.

Duration

40 minutes

Who For

Team Leaders / Managers / Wellbeing Ambassadors

Key Learning Outcomes of Elston HR’s Stress Awareness Training for Managers

Managers, team leaders, and well-being ambassadors play a key role in maintaining a healthy and supportive workplace environment. It’s through their support and guidance that your organisation’s employees can grow and thrive professionally.

Our stress awareness training for managers and team leaders equips your leaders with the skills, knowledge, and practical tools to recognise the early signs of workplace stress in themselves and their teams, learn ways to mitigate stress and build a resilient and dependable workforce. Our short course covers all the essentials of becoming more aware of stress, understanding its impact on employees and the organisation, and working towards a culture of openness and understanding.

Your managers, team leaders, and well-being ambassadors will take away the following from this course:

  • How to identify stress in yourself and others
  • Recognising and dealing with stress triggers
  • How to effectively reduce and prevent stress with positive steps
  • Understanding the mental and physical impact stress can have on an individual
  • How to develop and enhance overall resilience
  • Employ a healthier approach to managing stress in personal and professional settings
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Top Benefits of Our Stress Awareness Course

Identify Symptoms of Stress

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In our stress awareness course, your managers, team leaders, and well-being ambassadors will be introduced to the concept of stress. They’ll understand what is defined as stress and learn to recognise the most common stress symptoms.

Stress can manifest itself in different ways in different people, causing one or more physical and behavioural effects. The amount of pressure you or any employee is able to withstand can vary, making it important to pay attention to how each individual is feeling or behaving.

Chronic stress can manifest in symptoms ranging from forgetfulness, aches and pains, and feeling more tired than usual, to more intense symptoms like feeling overwhelming fear, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Our course helps your managers, team leaders, and well-being ambassadors recognise these common symptoms of stress and learn when certain signals can be attributed to stress.

Our training also helps your leaders to understand fight or flight, the classic reaction to stressful situations. In our workshop, you’ll learn what impact stress can have on the affected employees and the organisation as a whole.

Effectively Deal with Stress Triggers

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While it’s perfectly okay to feel stressed from time to time, certain demanding situations or events can trigger higher levels of stress. Research by the Health and Safety Executive revealed that workload in the workplace is the most reported cause of stress, anxiety, and depression. 

Having too much work on your plate or constantly feeling under pressure can lead your team to feel they’re unable to cope or not meeting expectations, causing them to feel inadequate. If your employees are struggling to keep up with their work, they’re bound to feel stressed, anxious, and burned out. 

In addition to high workload, a lack of support, changes at work, violence, threats, and bullying, unclear job roles and expectations, lack of control, poor work-life balance, poor physical working conditions, lack of career opportunities, and personal issues can also contribute to stress.

Our stress awareness training course helps your managers and team leaders identify the triggers of stress and most of its physical and emotional signs in employees affected in the workplace.

    Mitigating Work-Related Stress

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    Work-related stress can crop up in unexpected ways and can be caused by anything from unexpected changes at work or overwhelming workloads. In our stress awareness training workshop, your team leaders and managers will learn the techniques and measures to implement to reduce stress in the workplace.

    Our trainers will help your leaders determine the causes of stress to reduce or eliminate them where possible. Our course also offers actionable advice on avoiding future stress triggers and how stress can be monitored in the office environment.

    Build a Resilient Team

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    Stress is common in any workplace, with multiple factors adding to the stress load on your employees. A stressful working environment can lead to a decrease in your employees’ performance, lowered organisational productivity, burnout, and higher workforce turnover.

    Can you build a resilient team in a stressful work environment? Yes, but only if you cultivate positive coping mechanisms that help you and your team members identify the sources of stress and overcome them.

    In our stress awareness training for managers, your team leaders will learn stress management and resilience-building techniques on prioritising self-care, improving their problem-solving skills, and maintaining positive interpersonal relationships with their colleagues and team members. Learning these practical skills helps your team leaders to instill these values into their daily lives and guide their team members with coping strategies at work, so they can perform well even under pressure.

    Employee Retention

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    Stress in moderation can bring out the best in an individual, even in the workplace. But when a person’s stress levels go unchecked and exceed their limits, it can have a detrimental effect on them and the organisation.

    Overly stressed employees are more likely to leave your organisation unless you identify and address the cause of stress. Turning a blind eye to your employee’s difficulties at work may make them feel neglected and undervalued for their contributions. Over time, employees may leave for a new organisation with a better workplace culture.

    The same rings true when you’re hiring new recruits, who are more likely to accept a position at an organisation that has a good workplace culture and invests and supports in the well-being of its employees.

    In our short stress awareness course, your managers and team leaders will learn how to identify employees under stress and understand the different ways to support them. Employees who feel cared for and supported when they’re struggling are more likely to continue to stay at your organisation.

    Decreased Absenteeism

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    Unmanaged stress takes a personal toll on employees, and, on a bigger scale, it also has a cascading effect on the UK’s economy. A staggering 16.4 million workdays were lost in the UK in 2023-24 over work-related stress, depression, and anxiety, demonstrating the significance of human cost and the financial implications that work-related illnesses like stress can have.

    As an employer, the responsibility rests on you to manage work-related stress and support good mental health practices. Your managers and team leaders are responsible for taking these positive initiatives forward and effectively implementing them.

    Learn how your managers and team leaders can prioritise their team’s well-being and foster a workplace culture that supports their health in our short stress awareness training workshop.

    Improved Workplace Culture

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    Employees are happier when they’re healthier. Training your managers to identify and manage stress at work promotes a culture of support and openness. It’s vital to practice what you preach because your employees take cues from their seniors. Only when your organisation’s managers and team leaders are sensitised about stress awareness can their team members feel comfortable about joining in an open dialogue.

    When it comes to making decisions about how teams are run, it’s important to make them a part of the decision-making process. Our stress awareness course delivers in building a supportive team and a cohesive work environment.

    Why Choose Elston HR for Stress Awareness Training for Managers?

    Tailored Training Programme

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    Elston HR’s courses are packed with well-researched content and real-life examples that can be tailored to be made relevant to your organisation’s workplace culture, specific challenges, and sector-specific context.

    Practical Takeaways

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    At the end of the workshop, attendees will be better equipped to take on work-related stress issues with the help of our practical tools and techniques. Our trainers help you successfully understand the course objectives, engage in all aspects of the learning process, and complete all relevant activities to apply the knowledge and skills they have gained.

    Enriched Coursework

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    Our stress awareness course is designed to be an interactive exercise, leaving a lasting impression on your staff. Our trainers guide participants through a string of experiential exercises, interactive sessions, and self-assessment techniques to cultivate a positive and healthier approach to managing stress in both professional and personal environments.

    Contact Elston HR for Stress Awareness Training

    Elston HR is a well-known provider of tailor-made HR services, trusted by multiple corporations and businesses in the UK. We deliver exceptional people-first HR processes and provide bespoke training and development courses.

    Our team of experts is ready to work with your organisation to improve all matters related to human resources and organisation training and development.

    Elston HR’s stress awareness training workshop features a concise session to train your managers, team leaders, and well-being ambassadors. By the end, you’ll be able to recognise employees undergoing work-related stress, understand the reasons behind it, develop coping strategies, and foster a supportive culture at the workplace.

    Download our brochure to learn more about our training and development courses.

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