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Corporate Stress Management and Motivation.

More and more UK firms are discovering the human and economic benefits of hiring in-house stress busters. Eighty per cent of the blue-chip companies provide some form of corporate stress therapy, ranging from office massages to 24-hour help lines and of course Hypnotherapists.

Under hypnosis, the conscious part of the brain is bypassed and the subconscious becomes receptive to the power of suggestion suggestion. In corporate  hypnotherapy, a practitioner may use a process of deep relaxation. This can be a form of healing in itself, bringing about changes in the body and mind. It can be used to alleviate corporate anxiety and stress within minutes.

Many people are confused about what stress is, and in particular the difference between pressure and stress:

Pressure is the stimulation and challenge you need to achieve job satisfaction and self-esteem.

Stress is a reaction to continued excessive pressure or responsibility when you feel inadequate or unable to cope with any given situation.

The 'stress response' is a mechanism within your body, used to help it cope with danger. As soon as you're aware that something is threatening you, your brain sends messages to your nervous system to either get ready to stand and fight, or run away. Your heart rate and breathing go into overdrive, and you may start to sweat. Hormones including adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol - a hormone that helps your body adapt to stress - are pumped into your bloodstream. Glucose and fatty acid levels are also increased to provide energy for your muscles to deal with the perceived threat. All these reactions take place automatically and instantly at the first signs of danger.

This response, is known as 'fight or flight' and it is vital to our survival. Unfortunately, whereas in Stone Age times we would usually have time to recover from the life or death encounters that triggered the response, in the modern world we're confronted with a continuous stream of 'stressors' that our bodies perceive as threats, and react to accordingly.

Today, these threats could include financial pressures, fear of redundancy, overwork, deadline pressures or an important business presentations. The constant, ongoing pressure resulting from these stressors is different to the more immediate dangers that our stress response was designed to cope with. And it's at the point at which our bodies cannot recover from these pressures that we can begin to experience stress overload.

Stress is an individual response. What causes stress in one person may not cause stress in another. But typically it is the point at which the pressure of dealing with all the issues confronting us gets beyond our ability to cope that stress will be a likely outcome.

Below you will see a chart of Physical, Psychological and Behavioural symptoms of stress.

Some of the causes of stress within an organisation could be an imbalance between the demands placed on employees and their ability to control how their work is organised. For example: Work overload or 'under load', difficulties with working arrangements, shift patterns, Unclear roles and responsibilities, poor management, poor communication, insufficient support, organisational change, fear of redundancy, technology overload or a long hours work culture.

If large numbers of people within a particular team, department, or the whole organisation are experiencing stress, this can have serious effects on business. Such effects could include: High levels of absenteeism, increased staff turnover, poor job performance, low morale, low worker commitment, increased frequency of accidents, industrial relations difficulties, poor relationships with customers and difficulty in retaining good managers.

All of the above can result in an increase in direct and indirect costs to the organisation and even possible litigation.

Stress Management in 3 areas.

1. Corporate Group Stress Management Presentations

David Knight is available to help with corporate stress issues. David can arrange for corporate presentations to explain stress and how it can be reduced in the work place. these presentations can be aimed at Management or Workers. Presentations can be arranged from 30 minutes to 8 hours in length.

2. Personal Stress Management

Here David Knight can assess all individuals within the work place and work on a one to one basis. This work could include targeting and goal setting, personal issues such as relationships, time management, communication, determination and personal performance and of course personal causes of stress.

3. Stress Management Training

The third area of the Stress Management program includes teaching Management or Workers how they can learn self hypnosis to combat stress at the work place and at home. A stress free employee is far more effective and productive and they become an asset to the company.

Please contact David Knight for more information on Corporate Stress Management.

Telephone: 0870 321 75337.

E-mail: Web@KnightManagement.co.uk

Corporate Stress Management and Motivation.

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