Reducing Staff Absence by Managing Stress in the Workplace
What are the damaging effects and financial costs of stress? Work-related stress is the main health and safety concern in four out of five UK schools. If unnoticed, stress can lead progressively to a decrease in performance, health injury and long-term absence from work.
Teachers need to be encouraged to get support early rather than wait until things go wrong. A report into the scale of occupational stress in 2000 found that the groups in the UK reporting high stress (in order) were teaching, nursing, management, professionals, other education and welfare, road transport and security. In all these groups at least one in five reported high stress. For teachers it was two in five.
Who is the course for?
Groups of five or less – Head Teachers, Deputy Head Teachers, Assistant Heads, Subject/Learning Coordinators, anyone with line management responsibilities.
Course includes
- Handouts with useful reminders of tools and strategies for coaching your staff
- Practical demonstrations
- Structured exercises
Sample Course Structure
| 9.30am-11.00am | Improving staff morale and relationships, promoting employment enjoyment and productivity. |
| 11.30am-1.00pm | Managing stress, not eliminating it. |
| 2.00pm-3.30pm | How to foster a happy and healthy workplace. |
| 3.30pm-4.30pm | Q & A or one-to-one sessions with Joo-Lee Stock |
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