Assign clear ownership for each element of workplace stress management across the functions involved.
Managing Psychological Pressure and Stress at Work
A structured, applied course in workplace stress management — designed to be used the week you return.
Course Overview
Most disputes about workplace stress management begin as a conversation that was handled badly. People decide what the people management and development discipline really means by watching who gets promoted. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with this part of people management and development. The difficulty is not agreeing that workplace stress management matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. This programme builds the people management and development discipline from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of the wider people management and development agenda and supervised application. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place workplace stress management among the areas with the widest performance spread. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in this part of people management and development before they become incidents. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for this aspect of people management and development survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Adapt recognised practice on workplace stress management to local constraints without hollowing it out.
Prepare managers for the emotional load workplace stress management places on them.
Build a register of the risks attaching to workplace stress management and keep it current.
Structure records relating to workplace stress management so they satisfy legal and privacy obligations.
Handle exceptions to workplace stress management consistently and document the reasoning.
Assess the cost of workplace stress management and the cost of leaving it as it is.
Who Should Attend
Public sector officials applying workplace stress management within a regulated framework.
Reward and compensation staff whose frameworks interact with workplace stress management.
Learning and development officers building capability in workplace stress management.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of workplace stress management directly.
Employee relations specialists handling cases arising from workplace stress management.
Senior leaders accountable for the culture workplace stress management produces.
Course Modules
Workplace stress management: capability across the management line
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving workplace stress management from approval to execution
- Identify single points of dependency in workplace stress management and reduce them.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when workplace stress management underperforms.
- Estimate the cost of workplace stress management and the cost of leaving it unchanged.
- Remove steps in workplace stress management that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2Explaining workplace stress management so people believe it
- Pilot changes to workplace stress management in one area before wider rollout.
- Arrange the handover of workplace stress management so capability survives staff changes.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in workplace stress management.
- Set the consistency check that catches uneven application of workplace stress management.
Workplace stress management: cost, benefit and workforce planning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in workplace stress management and what to ignore
- Check that records of workplace stress management answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Identify the data the organisation already holds that bears on workplace stress management.
- Ask employees what workplace stress management feels like from their side.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for workplace stress management.
Session 2Costing workplace stress management honestly, including the cost of inaction
- Review workplace stress management for unintended equity effects across groups.
- Compare intended and actual outcomes of workplace stress management honestly.
- Set the annual review point for workplace stress management and who attends.
- Train line managers on workplace stress management rather than handling every case centrally.
Workplace stress management: evidence, data and honest measurement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where workplace stress management typically breaks, and why
- State the purpose of workplace stress management in one sentence a new manager would understand.
- Design the communication for workplace stress management around the questions people will actually ask.
- Reduce the variation in how workplace stress management is carried out between teams.
- Draft the minimum viable people policy for workplace stress management.
Session 2Applying workplace stress management consistently to the person you like least
- Check that workplace stress management complies with current labour regulation in every location.
- Define the trigger that would require workplace stress management to be redesigned.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to workplace stress management.
- Plan succession for roles most exposed to workplace stress management.
Workplace stress management: records, privacy and legal defensibility
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Piloting a change to workplace stress management before committing
- Check that workplace stress management still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Set the review interval for workplace stress management and who attends.
- Define who decides on workplace stress management and who may only recommend.
- Measure the effect of workplace stress management on retention and performance, not activity.
Session 2The exception to workplace stress management that sets the precedent
- Map the handovers in workplace stress management between functions and secure them.
- Define acceptance criteria for workplace stress management in advance.
- Rehearse the briefing on workplace stress management that would follow an incident.
- Document the reasoning for every exception granted under workplace stress management.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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