Stress accounts for 40% of the western worlds sick-leave with the numbers rising. World Health Organization calls stress ”A world-wide epidemic”. In Japan there is even a word for occupational sudden death, karoushi,  which translates as ”death from overwork”

Extensive research is going on to understand the phenomenon of stress. Stress is not the problem so much as the individual response, which makes stress very difficult to pinpoint and treat. On top of that we are amazingly good at adaptation. We adapt until we crash.

The only reliable way to combat stress is on a cognitive level by education and knowledge, creating an understanding and recognition of the self and the situation. There are always solutions.

The Stress Management Center (SMC) helps you with this. There are four levels of dealing with stress:

• Information: Knowledge of stress on a physical, emotional and mental level. Learning how to deal with the symptoms.
• Action: We seek the problem causing the stress, and change the environment and/or the situation.
• Emotionally: When we do not have the power to change the situation, we can manage stress by changing our interpretation of the situation and how we feel about it.
• Acceptance: Where something happens over which we have no power or emotional control, we focus on surviving and eliminating the stress.

Stress accounts for 40% of the western worlds sick-leave with the numbers rising. World Health Organization calls stress ”A world-wide epidemic”. In Japan there is even a word for occupational sudden death, karoushi,  which translates as ”death from overwork”

Extensive research is going on to understand the phenomenon of stress. Stress is not the problem so much as the individual response, which makes stress very difficult to pinpoint and treat. On top of that we are amazingly good at adaptation. We adapt until we crash.

The only reliable way to combat stress is on a cognitive level by education and knowledge, creating an understanding and recognition of the self and the situation. There are always solutions.

The Stress Management Center (SMC) helps you with this. There are four levels of dealing with stress:

• Information: Knowledge of stress on a physical, emotional and mental level. Learning how to deal with the symptoms.
• Action: We seek the problem causing the stress, and change the environment and/or the situation.
• Emotionally: When we do not have the power to change the situation, we can manage stress by changing our interpretation of the situation and how we feel about it.
• Acceptance: Where something happens over which we have no power or emotional control, we focus on surviving and eliminating the stress.

Stress in the work-place is today widely accepted and addressed, as it should be, seeing how stress & burn-out syndrome is leading to an increased cost for society. Discussions are now steering towards who carries the economical responsibility. The work-place? Insurance companies? State health-care systems? Somebody has to pay the bill, and it is mounting every day. From 2003-2005 the health expenditure in Luxembourg increased from €1906 million to €2276 million. That is an increase of €370 million in three years.

(Eurostat 26/2008; Population and social conditions)

Workplace stress costs more than $300 billion each year in health care, missed work and stress-reduction.

(American Institute of Stress, NY).

Cerebral overload leads to lowered brain-capacity, in some cases 20-50%, making an overstressed worker inefficient, sloppy, more prone to making mistakes or taking bad decisions.

(John J. Medina)

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At La Mondiale Europartner, we believe that companies which invest in people will do well in the longer term. This remains true even when times are tough. That philosophy was behind our decision to work with Anna Dannfelt to give our staff a chance to improve their welbeing and their ability to cope with stress. Anna was the first person that we called, because we know that she undertands the needs of the company to boost productivity and improve the bottom line, but she also has a deep understanding of the human aspects of working life. Anna quickly built a strong rapport with the staff who took advantage of the offer, she is full of energy and a lot of fun to work with. We're really glad that we decided to work with her. Andrew Pearson, Directeur administration et contrôle

Andrew Pearson BA (Hons) MBA PMICS Cert. AMLA
Directeur administration et contrôle

La Mondiale Europartner SA

Stress in the work-place is today widely accepted and addressed, as it should be, seeing how stress & burn-out syndrome is leading to an increased cost for society. Discussions are now steering towards who carries the economical responsibility. The work-place? Insurance companies? State health-care systems? Somebody has to pay the bill, and it is mounting every day. From 2003-2005 the health expenditure in Luxembourg increased from €1906 million to €2276 million. That is an increase of €370 million in three years.

(Eurostat 26/2008; Population and social conditions)

Workplace stress costs more than $300 billion each year in health care, missed work and stress-reduction.

(American Institute of Stress, NY).

Cerebral overload leads to lowered brain-capacity, in some cases 20-50%, making an overstressed worker inefficient, sloppy, more prone to making mistakes or taking bad decisions.

(John J. Medina)

Reference:

At La Mondiale Europartner, we believe that companies which invest in people will do well in the longer term. This remains true even when times are tough. That philosophy was behind our decision to work with Anna Dannfelt to give our staff a chance to improve their welbeing and their ability to cope with stress. Anna was the first person that we called, because we know that she undertands the needs of the company to boost productivity and improve the bottom line, but she also has a deep understanding of the human aspects of working life. Anna quickly built a strong rapport with the staff who took advantage of the offer, she is full of energy and a lot of fun to work with. We're really glad that we decided to work with her. Andrew Pearson, Directeur administration et contrôle

Andrew Pearson BA (Hons) MBA PMICS Cert. AMLA
Directeur administration et contrôle

La Mondiale Europartner SA