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Are you stressed out at work? And after work? And before work?
Because every where you turn, work seems to be taking over your life?
Would you say you have a good work/life balance right now-or are you more likely to say,
"Balance? Ha! What balance?"
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| How many of your employees, from the rank-and-file up through management, feel the same way? |
It's easy to dismiss workplace stress and say employees should be happy to have a job at all these days, because everyone is doing more with less. But when employees are fed up, overworked, beaten down, and just plain tired, your company will take a hit. A big one. Where it hurts. In the corporate wallet.
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Have you ever thought about what stress is costing you?
Consider this: Almost 1 in 5 workers have quit a job because of job stress. Nearly 1 in 4 have been driven to tears because of job stress.
Can you afford that kind of turnover in your organization? And look at these numbers...
- In a 1999 survey, NIOSH cites that nearly HALF (40%) of workers reported their job was very or extremely stressful
- 25% of workers view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives
- A whopping 80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress, and 42% say their coworkers need such help
- Three-fourths of employees believe they have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago
Here's a scary thought: 14% of respondents in a 2000 Gallup poll said they felt like striking a coworker in the past year, but didn't. That's a lot of pent-up frustration and stress. Here are some more statistics...
- 42% report that yelling and other verbal abuse are common where they work
- 29% had actually yelled at coworkers because of workplace stress
- Job stress is more strongly associated with health problems than financial or family problems
- Health care expenditures are nearly 50% higher for workers who report high levels of stress
Sort of makes you feel like you're sitting on a fault line: The pressure is building, and it could blow at any minute.
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What do all these numbers mean?
All these data, studies, and statistics are saying that work/life balance is probably a bigger problem than you realize...
...and that without addressing it, you're either paying for stress in unintended consequences (higher turnover, high absenteeism, higher healthcare costs)...
...or you're a headline waiting to happen ("Dozens were injured at a local business today, when a disgruntled employee took out his stress on coworkers, story at 11)."
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Why getting a grip on work/life balance is a
sure-thing, cannot-lose investment.
If the health risks of stress don't have you convinced about the importance of a good work/life balance, maybe some dollars-and-cents financial talk will convince you.
There's a well-known study, one of the first of its kind, that demonstrated that companies make on average a 3-to-1 ROI from their wellness programs. And the results have been replicated time and time again.
Can you imagine any other investment that will pay you back three times over, with relatively little cash upfront? Some of it won't cost you a dime to implement, it just takes a few adjustments in what you do for employees.
In other words, helping employees live healthier lives and maintain a healthy work/life balance actually pays off for your company in less absenteeism, better engagement and productivity, fewer injuries... the list goes on and on.
You really can't lose. Either way, you get a better, more focused staff.
And up until now, companies who wanted to re-engage their employees and help them find a healthier work/life balance have had to rely on pieces of information, a webinar here, an article there, a book somewhere in between.
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That's why speaker, trainer, and work/life balance expert Pamela Cournoyer created Work/Life Balance Training Camp. Work/Life Balance Training Camp gives busy execs and HR managers an all-inclusive two-day training, where in one comprehensive class they can learn what causes problems with work/life balance to begin with, and how to address those problems.
- The biggest triggers for stress, and how we often pull the triggers ourselves
- The best strategies for neutralizing stress, separating the psychobabble from techniques that actually work
- How Facebook can help you create better relationships in the office, without ever touching a computer
- Changing the attitudes that make stress worse (most people aren't even aware of them!)
- The secret to setting better priorities and boundaries so you can have real quality time at home and at the office
- What's the stress load on your managers? How to assess them quickly, and 7 simple steps to decrease that load and build morale
- Rolling out work/life balance programs throughout your company and getting maximum participation
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Stress is more dangerous than smoking.
Whether you're aware of it or not, the stress of having a poor work/life balance is taking its physical toll on you, and your employees. Consider these alarming statistics about the risks of not having a good work/life balance:
- 10% of people who are married or living with children under 18 experience severe work-family conflict and 25% experience moderate levels of conflict, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Chronic stress is known to cause illness, from stomach aches to depression to high blood pressure and heart disease, which can ultimately kill you.
- A 20-year study found that stress is a more dangerous risk factor for cancer and heart disease than either cigarette smoking or high-cholesterol foods.
That's right. Stress could be more dangerous to your health than smoking-which you are also more likely to do if you're stressed.
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It's a catch-22. You're stressed, so you make bad choices, like smoking or drinking heavily or eating too much take-out because you don't have time to cook. But then those choices affect your health too. And before you know it, you're on a merry-go-round of bad decisions influenced and made worse by stress.
When you add it all up, what's stress costing your company in healthcare and employee sick time?
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What are you waiting for?
Your new, more enjoyable life is waiting for you.
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It's time to take action, before another employee calls in "sick," your employee turnover rates jump another notch, or, even worse, someone does something violent and dangerous on your property, something the company could be held liable for.
Work/Life Balance Training Camp is a remarkable two-day event, if you're looking for practical answers for many different situations, in one place.
Whether you're taking one for the team or just have an extremely demanding job, does that really mean you and your employees have to sacrifice your personal lives all together?
Or, maybe you or some of your managers are work-a-holics. Do you have trouble putting work aside when it's time to spend time with family and friends?
Because it's not just the stress of working too much. What are you missing in your life while you're working? Time with friends? Your child's first words? A wedding? A favorite hobby? Are your personal relationships suffering from too much work?
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| Program Agenda |
Day One
8:00-8:30am Registration
8:30-11:00am Change Your Thinking, Change Your Outcomes
As a leader, are you tuned into what your employees need to be a strong, balanced workforce? How does one person's mood or stress affect the whole bunch? We will explore the sources of your stress and how that stress is manifesting itself in your office. Then, we'll look at effective, easy-to-implement options for minimizing that stress for you, your management, and your employees.
- Your personal reaction to stress, how can you become more aware of it and acknowledge it?
- You're the leader. If it's getting to you, you know it's getting to your management and staff. Working to reduce stress across different levels
- Are you aware of self-pulled stress triggers? Activities for locating those triggers and reducing them where possible
- Ways to change your own thinking, then your managers' thinking, and then your employees' thinking
- Helping your employees make their own plan to manage stress instead of yielding to it
- Entrepreneurial thinking vs. sheep thinking, workers crave it. Now it's time for management to embrace it. Ways to shift that paradigm in your workforce
- Leadership tips to move others to a higher level of thinking, changed thinking = changed outcomes
11:00-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15am Coping & Stress Profile
Prior to the workshop, each participant will take the Inscape Coping & Stress Profile, a unique self-directed assessment that provides insightful feedback about your responses to stress and the coping resources you have. Find out what the assessment says about you, your responses to stress, and the current state of your work/life balance.
- Review of your individual Coping & Stress Profile, what does it mean?
- Using the assessment to target and quantify the stress in your personal and professional life
- The relationship between stress and satisfaction, and the difference your resources and relationships can make
- The positive and negative effects of stress
- Understand the stress cycle at work and home, and how to move through that cycle unharmed
- Understand your coping style and the coping style of others through the Coping & Stress Profile
12:15-1:45pm Lunch On Your Own
1:15-2:15pm From Stress to Success
Once you understand your coping style, we will look at practical strategies to help you manage your individual stressors one-by-one. By working on your very own personal "stress management plan," you'll be better prepared to support others in identifying their stressors. Learn practical ways to keep everyone on track with their stress management.
- Coping resources for decreasing stress
- Personal problem-solving strategies
- Ways to develop more flexibility
- An action plan to reduce stress and increase satisfaction at work and in your personal life
- The importance of regular self-care, and how to make time for more of it
- Introduction to holistic coping mechanisms for managing the stress cycle
- Produce a personal visioning document
- Apply your personal visioning to the balance cycle to set the right pace for yourself and relieve some of the stress you've been carrying (we will show you how to administer this to your managers later)
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Assessing the Stress Load on Your Managers
To initiate stress management programs and work/life balance, you must be able to prove that your managers are in trouble and that their current skills are not enough to shore up the dam that is about to break. This session offers multiple ways to assess your A-Team's strengths and weaknesses. We will introduce case-building tactics for intervention that will win over resistant upper-management.
- An assessment for measuring the stress level of managers and supervisors
- Determining the best approaches to address the management stress load
- Will upper management be resistant? Review your assessment and rehearse how you'll make your case
- An introduction to emotional intelligence, why and when to use it in work/life balance strategies
Evening Activity
Choose a LIFE Balance activity and then commit to doing it for yourself this evening. We'll have a variety of ideas, or feel free to bring your own!
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Day Two
8:30-10:00am
7 Effective Ways to Decrease Stress Load and Build Manager Morale
Gossip, complaints, and high turnover are often signs that managers and supervisors are struggling. This session is based on the number one reason why people leave the workforce today: a poor relationship with their managers.
What really works when it comes to reducing stress and building morale and engagement? Formulate your own brilliant "7-step plan" for bringing your employees back together as a cohesive unit, all without so much as drafting a memo or asking to increase your budget. We'll strategize about no-cost solutions to stop the hemorrhaging and get your managers back on track.
- Identify, and then apply, your best personal leadership strategies for instant improvements
- The "SWOT" work/life balance assessment, what it is and using it to create your own roadmap to success
- Do you have a trust gap in your office? Make a plan to fill in the gaps and identify what you need to do to increase trust and morale in your workplace
- What are the strategies that will work best with your managers? Find them, and apply them
- Copy successful Facebook strategies to create relationships in the workplace, without ever touching a computer
- How mentoring can motivate staff to focus less on stress and to begin enjoying their jobs again
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-12:00pm
Work/Life Balance Tool Kit
Time to create your tool kit, your own personal "go-to" resource to help you, and your managers' face the day-to-day challenges of helping your staff manage stress.
To keep your best people, help de-stress them without changing their responsibilities, job duties, or work load. Learn how to practice "presence," feed your employees' souls, re-connect employees to the company, set goals, and help them manage their own stress. Find out how you can alter your managers' perspectives and perceptions of stress with just a few simple conversations.
- A sure-win listening skill you can apply to managers and receive instant results
- How to observe coping styles and then recommend the stress reduction strategies that will work best for that style
- Overcoming management's need for control by linking supervisor rewards and compensation to empowering practices
- Develop clear, open communication, especially during times of significant change
- Help managers develop clear connections between cause and effect
- Help managers have difficult conversations with positive results
12:00-1:30pm Lunch on your own
1:30-4:30pm
Rolling out the Stress Reduction Strategy
Now that you know how to cope with stress and gain more balance in your life, how are you going to help the people in your organization find a better work/life balance and cope with stress?
Workers who have a better sense of control over their work situation operate with more confidence, more assertiveness, and ultimately take on more responsibility and are more productive. Practical ideas for rolling out your program, getting maximum participation, and including built-in support to keep your program going.
- Where can workers have more control over their work situation?
- Ways to offer employees a sense of personal control about their outcomes
- Employee resiliency programs that give support when work, home, financial and emotional stressors hit
- How supervisors and leads can add to their employees' sense of security and stability with interpersonal skills training
- Emotional support systems that employees will actually use
- What's an organization's leading cause of stress? CHANGE! Map out a change management training protocol for the next 3 years for your organization
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*Due to the necessity of maintaining work/life balance and the engagement of the program, expect the agenda to change.
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Las Vegas, NV
May 15-16, 2012
Early Bird Registration (Before 4/13/12): $695
Regular Registration: $895
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