Creating a stress-free office - Simon Priest

Too many people still regard stress as an issue for individuals to manage alone. This Workbook starts from the premise that stress is damaging to the organization as a whole and that effective stress prevention will only happen if people work together to understand stress, audit its causes and symptoms and act to deal with its impact. - - Simon Priest and Jim Welch describe the technique of 'inoculating your staff against stress' and place it firmly amongst the other core skills and responsibilities of the manager or team leader. Using a mix of facts, techniques, cartoons and illustrations, questionnaires, quizzes, exercises and games, the authors provide you with the means to: - -
understand what stress is and what responsibilities your organization has towards you under law -
identify the precise causes of stress within your own team and develop strategies for reducing their impact -
recognise the symptoms of stress in your team and understand the role you have in supporting individuals -
understand the four main strands to reducing stress and how to apply them in your workplace. - - Titles in the Gower Management Workbook Series have been written to answer the growing need for practical, enjoyable and highly effective, self-development materials. As such they are ideal for managers to pick up and work through on their own, within a learning resource centre, or as part of a pre- or post-training course assignment.