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The Organisation: Abacus International . For over 16 years Abacus International has pioneered the development of evidence based market access solutions for many of the world’s healthcare companies. Abacus remains at the cutting edge of health economic modelling and systematic review with associated meta-analysis techniques.
The Project: We wanted to look for a solution that would help our line managers deal with their own stress, identify it within their teams and equip everyone with techniques to manage stress both in the work place an in their lives.
The Solution: The Stress Management Society carried out an initial risk assessment to ascertain the key areas within Abacus International that were the source of stress. Using this information we catered our Stress Awareness and Line-Managers Training sessions to meet the needs of Abacus International.
The consulting environment can be stressful, with employees constantly having to balance competing demands and this pressure was heightened with a recent significant increase in turnover. We wanted to develop a way of measuring organisational stress, develop tactics to deal with it, and then measure the improvement at some point in the future.
We decided to use The Stress Management Society because from the initial contact it was clear that the people at SMS understood our organisational stress symptoms as well as the consultancy environment, something which we considered essential.
The strategy and its implementation were exceptional and exceeded our expectations. The initial risk assessment was extremely valuable to the project as it helped us understand what we do well and where we need to improve to help reduce stress within our organisation.
The training that The Stress Management Society provided was engaging, inclusive and relevant to our organisation and this was reflected in the feedback from all of our staff being incredibly positive. Managers in particular reported that they felt that they had a far greater understanding of the topic and felt much better equipped to deal with it in their teams.
Overall our experience with The Stress Management Society was excellent and we would recommend them to any other business who are looking to tackle stress or to carry out a similar project within their organisations.
