At The Insight Network, part of the Spire Healthcare private hospital group, we have developed a series of workshops designed to increase the resilience of individuals and teams so that they are better able to manage the pressures of operating in today’s turbulent times.
Building resilience and increasing productivity in the work place
The recently published CIPD 2011 Absence Management survey confirmed that the number one cause of long term absence in the UK is stress. Increasing workloads, the pace of organisational change and restructuring, management styles and external pressures are all identified as contributory factors. The survey reports that 58% or organisations are taking steps to identify and reduce stress in the workplace.
The consistent theme emerging from all of the available published research (CIPD, CBI, WHO, MIND) is that the incidence, duration and trend for stress related absence is moving in one direction – up.
With annual UK absence costs estimated at £17billion the payback potential for those organisations who invest in preventative employee wellbeing programs is material. Click here to view our video presentation on the value of happy employees.