Creating a Stress Prevention Culture

In this one-day Masterclass Seminar, Professor Derek Mowbray will introduce organisational and management actions that improve wellbeing and prevent work-related stress.

The seminar also provides practical guidance on effective wellbeing interventions and shows how the return-on-investment can be measured.

Course content

• What is stress and why is stress important?
• The links between mental wellbeing and performance: organisational and individual
• How to calculate the cost of psychological presenteeism
• Measuring stress
• The Wellbeing and Performance Agenda: Introduction
• Implementing a Wellbeing and Performance Agenda: a Framework you can use for Wellbeing Strategies
• Introducing a Stress Prevention Culture into the organisation
• Stress Prevention in the workforce
• The Manager’s Code – a code for promoting wellbeing and performance and preventing stress
• Strengthening personal resilience against stress
• Next steps, action planning
• Questions, evaluation and close

Why you should attend this workshop

Professor Mowbray is a pioneer of the Wellbeing and Performance Agenda that focuses on the primary prevention of stress at work. This includes reducing psychological presenteeism, which has the knock on effect of reducing sickness absence and staff turnover.

The emphasis is on a Positive Work Culture that embraces a Preventing Stress Culture, combined with developing behaviours that promote commitment, trust and engagement - principal antidotes to stress.

Who should attend this workshop

Directors, Senior Managers and Line Managers, and those involved in wellbeing and stress prevention and management.

Where and when?

5 Oct - Newcastle

15 Nov - Belfast

22 Nov - Birmingham