Stress is the most significant psychological hazard in the workplace, affecting people’s mental and physical wellbeing. (Worksafe Victoria)

Finding effective strategies to address this challenge is one of the major issues confronting workers and employers.

Stress costs Australian businesses nearly $11 billion a year in:

Reducing stress results in more profitable businesses

In times of change and uncertainty, we need to be able to manage the stress that this produces, in order to be adaptive and responsive to difficult situations.

The connection between stress and impaired performance and productivity is simple

In the current economic and business environment, increasing and competing demands on our attention and time result in stress.

The brain is desperately trying to deal with more input than it possibly can. This triggers the stress response which, ironically, causes the part of the brain responsible for clear-thinking, problem-solving and decision-making to shut down.

The brain gradually loses its capacity to attend fully and thoroughly to anything. Yet these are the very qualities you want in your staff when everyone is under pressure. It makes sense that giving people the tools to reduce and manage their stress levels results in more profitable businesses.

You might like to read the Harvard Business Review’s excellent article called:
‘Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform’

Price Waterhouse Cooper’s report for Beyond Blue about mental health in the workplace, shows that for every dollar businesses spend on an effective mental health strategy, they get an average $2.30 return on investment (ROI).

The PwC ‘Heads Up’ report emphasises that businesses need to create a workplace where staff can be be mentally healthy and productive – ‘they not only owe it to their staff but also to their business’s profitability.’

Some key findings

Link: Read the Beyond Blue media release

Using proven and practical tools, our programs deliver measurable benefits to your organisation and to your staff.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction  & wellbeing programs are a powerful and cost effective strategy to reduce stress, improve mental health, and increase performance and productivity in your workplace

Designed and tailored to complement your Wellbeing, Health and Safety strategy our programs reduce the cost of stress to your business, and contribute to:

Using fast and effective techniques which include mindfulness tools and cognitive strategies to relieve stress, the programs takes an experiential approach, combining evidence-based information, discussion and reflection, cognitive tools and fast, effective stress reduction skills., to provide the skills and support for participants to create positive changes.

Results include: