Reduce Stress, increase wellbeing. Enhance your ability to manage stress in yourself and in others. Lead your employees more effectively with improved managerial skills.

Our new executive programme is designed for senior professionals and business owners to provide the support needed to manage stress and improve health and wellbeing in these challenging times. Business success is dependent upon on the skills and leadership of its owners - investing in this leadership will help to achieve goals and help reach optimum levels of performance.

With the knowledge that many businesses are not investing (or not investing enough) in training, coaching or leadership support we are pleased to announce that those participating in this scheme will be eligible to a sizeable grant towards the cost of the programme.

To be eligible for the grants you must meet the following criteria:

• Be the CEO, Director or Owner of a UK Organisation
• Employee 5-249 people (part time staff and volunteers also count)
• Be an EU resident
• Not have accessed Train to Gain L&M before

The programme will deliver training and coaching in areas that will provide clear benefit for your business and in your ability to lead your people. Open to leaders of small, medium and large organisations with training and coaching in areas such as:

• Understand how stress affects you and your organisation
• Improving Health and Wellbeing
• Work/Life balance
• Communication Skills
• Time Management
• Stress Management
• Coping with the stress of financial challenges
• Resolving conflict
• Thriving in a credit crunched world
• Dealing with high levels of pressure

Overview

The programme is designed to increase your resources and ability to dealing with stress, improve energy levels, in turn boosting your productivity and efficiency.

We will teach equip you with a toolbox of tools which are the key to handling challenging situations. In order to lead people effectively through challenging situations over a sustained period, leaders need firstly to master their own stress and energy levels. This means balancing the demands of leadership with their personal needs; staying healthy; being able to relax; rising above the problems; and staying clear and calm when others are emotional.

The programme is tailored to meet your specific business and personal needs and consists of a mix of one to one coaching, training sessions and where required Complementary, Alternative Therapies.

There are three stages to this programme:

Course structure
All sessions are one to one with one of our experienced and highly skilled Leadership Coaches.

Course outcomes

Silver Package
5 x 60-90 coaching sessions £500 (full rebate)

Gold Package
10 x 60-90 minute coaching sessions £1000 (£750 rebate)

Platinum Package
10 x 60-90 minute coaching sessions £1500 (£1000 rebate)
6 x 60 minute E-Rejuvenation sessions

Silver Package
This module provides clients with a framework for approaching challenges. It is based on the premise that leaders need to be able to overcome their own stress, manage their health and maintain emotional discipline in order to lead others through challenging situations.

After completing this package you will be able to:

• Understand what Stress is and how it affects us
• Recognise the signs and symptoms of stress
• Know when stress is an appropriate response and when it will hinder us
• Understand the importance of maintaining a good work / life balance
• Have the ability to recognise stress in your employees

Gold Package
In addition to what you will cover in the silver package, this package will go into more detail on the variety of strategies that can be adopted to better equip you to handling stress in yourself and in those around you.

The skills this package will teach you include the following:

• Using your breathing to manage stress
• Stretching and self massage techniques to prevent Repetitive Strain Injuries and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Visualisation techniques to aid relaxation and ensure business success
• Improved communication and rapport building techniques using NLP
• Understand how you can utilise the HSE’s Stress Management Standards to ensure you have a happy healthy workforce

Platinum Packages
In addition to the above, the Platinum package will include 6 ERejuvenation sessions with our partners at E Rejuvenation Centre near Liverpool Street in London.
This package adds to the framework you have already begun to develop for approaching challenges. It provides leaders with a boost of energy that instantly reduces stress and gives you a sense of perspective when you are under pressure. These sessions are a good foundation for leading other people through challenging situations with a positive and relaxed attitude.

On completion of these sessions clients will be able to:

• Release stress and maintain a relaxed position both at work and out of work
• Recharge their energy and increase positivity
• Develop a clear and calm perspective on problems
• Maintain balance whilst managing change
• Approach conflict positively and develop peaceful resolution
• Clarify vision, direction and strategy when under pressure

Key Skills:
The key skills taught in this programme are:

• Recognising the signs and symptoms of stress
• How to reduce /better manage stress
• Relaxation skills
• How to promote Health and Wellbeing
• Communication skills
• Time management skills
• Problem-solving
• Clarifying values and priorities
• Change management
• Conflict resolution
• Handling pressure
• Developing and communicating vision, direction and strategy

Running in conjunction with our training partner Praesto Training & Development Ltd, Train to Gain and funded by LSC (Learning and Skills Council), for more information please contact us on 0844 357 8629 or email info@stress.org.uk.