Stress affects us all personally and can have some catastrophic implications to our health if it is not controlled properly including:

• Coronary Heart Disease
• Strokes
• Arthritis 
• A lowered immune system 

These are just some of the conditions that can be made significantly worse by stress.  By learning and understanding the process of how stress works we can make lifestyle changes to combat these effects.

Read this blog to find out more about how you can combat the effects of stress on your immune system.

What is Fight or Flight?

This phrase is commonly used but do we all know and understand exactly what it means and how it effects us.  To deal with stress effectively either at work or at home it is key to understand this response the body has to stress.

Read a brief explanation to understand your body's stress response here.

Exercising, but having fun whilst exercising is essential in dealing with stress effectively as this latest report in the Independent highlights.

Stress is becoming a larger issue and affecting more of us each day.  Only this week a study from Manchester University revealed that in-work stressors increased in 2009/2010 by 4-6% a marked rise compared to the increase in previous years of 0.5-1.0%.

Read the full report here.

A report released last week shows stress is the largest concern for Health and Safety representatives with 62% saying that stress was in their top 5 concerns this year and 27% saying that stress topped their concerns list.

The public sector had larger concerns (68%) than the private sector (54%), with London topping the charts with 70% of representatives concerned about stress.

Read the full article here.

Stress has some mammoth financial and logistic implications in the work environment, last year stress caused 13.7 million working days to be lost at a cost of £28.3 billion to the U.K. economy.

A fantastic spreadsheet released by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will help your business to assess the levels and cost of stress you have.  Download the spreadsheet here.

By learning to manager stress better we can positively affect staff morale, motivation and productivity, whilst reducing staff turnover, absenteeism and presenteeism, ultimately improving the health of your staff and the profit of your company.

Learn to Combat Corporate Stress here.

Is stress negatively effecting you, your staff, friends, family and business?

To find out more about our stress management workshops and to see if our solution to stress would benefit you, call us on 0330 440 1830 or e-mail info@combatcorporatestress.com.

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