STRESSWORKS

One in four EU workers face work-related stress problems, and up to half of all absenteeism can be attributed to stress. (Source www.irishhealth.com)

Stressworks is a new Galway based company specialising in stress management for business clients. We can provide seminars for your management or staff which will provide practical information and advice for reducing stress. Once the stress management plan is adhered to, it will provide tangible, real results. This will benefit both your staff who will be less stressed, and your company who will see a reduction in stress related problems in the work place (see Stress section)

Stress Management
• ..Significant levels of stress reduction
• ..Improved communications in work place
• ..Reduction of absenteeism
• ..Higher productivity

Time Management
• ..People will work more efficiently and achieve more in a given time
• ..Make good decisions
• ..Make realistic commitments

Problem Solving
• ..Gives objective and analytical skills about the way you think about certain problematic .... circumstance

Business and Personal Coaching
• ..A practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals.

- Coaching is unlocking a persons potential to maxmise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

- Coaching focuses on future possibilities not on past mistakes.

-Coaching is a structual process focused on outcomes, whereby a coach works with an individual or team to clarify issues,challenge self-limiting beliefs,modify outdated responses,generate solutions and take action to enhance performance.

-In a business capacity the individual or leader then applies these skills to his or her own staff,therby fostering and developing a genuine learning organisation.

-A coaching culture helps organisations and individuals to manage change,grow and develop.

-Business coaching is the practice of providing support,occasional advice to an individual or group in order to help them recognise ways in which they can improve the effectiveness of their business.

-A genuine culture of coaching is epitomised by individual action and responsibility that occurs within a climate of authentic,empowering and committed relationships.

-Personal coaching is a relationship which is designed and defined in a relationship agreement between a client and a coach. It is based on the clients expressed interests,goals and objectives.

-A personal coach may use inquiry,reflection,requests and discussion to help clients identify personal/business/relationship goals.

-The coach will help develop strategies,action plans intended to achieve these goals.

-A coach provides a place for clients to be held accountable to thenselves by monitoring clients progress towards implmentation of their action plans.

-A personal coach acts as a human mirror for clients by sharing an outside, non-judgemental and unbiased perspective on what they are observing about their clients.

-A personal coach may teach specific insights and skills to empower the client towards their goals.

-Coaching provides proactive focused thought attention and observation.

-The relationship between the coach and the coachee is one of partnership in the endeavour of trust,safety and minimal pressure.

-Building awareness,responsibility and self - belief is the goal of the coach.

-Self-belief,self-motivation,choice,clarity, commitment awareness, responsibility and action are the products of coaching.