Your employees’ wellbeing is key to the success of your business.

To be competitive in today’s business environment, you need to hold on to really good employees, reduce absenteeism and limit your exposure to expensive and time-gobbling litigation.   Breathing Space for Business offers just the solutions you’ve been looking for to improve staff retention, reduce absenteeism, enhance performance – AND helps protect your company from expensive and time-consuming employment tribunals resulting from ill-health and undue stress.

We specialise in providing objective, practical support for businesses who understand that having a happy and healthy workforce improves performance and overall results and encourage co-operation and sharing of responsibility for wellbeing throughout your organisation.

These claims are supported by research from the DTi which shows that employees who are happy at work are 34% more effective whilst Harvard research shows that companies who ensure employees are appropriately challenged, deliver 30 times better than those who do not.

HSE research also shows that undue stress is a major contributor to ill health, absenteeism and lack of motivation and that employment tribunal claims against companies for undue stress are due to rise dramatically. For further statistics, click here (this is the link that will take you through to the copy I want people to see)  http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/stress/index.htm)

In financial terms the estimated cost of sickness absence to the UK as a whole is around £12 billion a year. Stress is the single largest cause of occupational ill health, accounting for around half of all days lost to work-related ill health in these sectors.

Looking at it another way, latest statistics show that each absence relating to stress equates to an average of 30 days absence from work.  If you base this on a salary of say £30,000, the cost per case is roughly £4,500 (and probably much more when you take other operational costs into account).   Breathing Space for Business programmes start from as little as £75 per person and could be the best investment you ever made!

Your business needs an effective wellbeing or stress management policy which conforms to HSE guidelines and that is communicated clearly to your staff. But it’s not just about policy and paying lip service to cover your liability, it’s about adopting practices and initiatives that become part of the company culture and are followed through in the day to day running of your business.

You may think that nobody could possibly understand the pressures of your particular business? You may be surprised how often similar situations arise in very different businesses. Perceived poor communication, poor organisation, motivational issues, ‘us and them’ cultures and so on. Also personal issues such as sleeplessness and the inability to switch off or to get the work/life balance right.

To arrange a meeting to discuss your organisation’s Stress Management & Wellbeing in the Workplace needs, call Annie Lawler now on 0772 581 8884 or e-mail annie@breathingspaceforbusiness.com.

Risk Free

Our initial corporate stress assessment is TOTALLY FREE. Also, our first seminar is offered at significant discount so that you can experience our work without further obligation. Such is our passion and belief in what we do!

If you feel it’s not for you, there is no obligation and there is no charge – it’s as simple as that. So, what do you have to lose?

Call Annie Lawler now on 0772 581 8884 or e-mail annie@breathingspaceforbusiness.com.

Breathing Space Therapies

Breathing Space also provides services for individual clients, helping those who are going through a difficult period of their lives or facing challenges (for whatever reason), to make clear decisions and change their lives for the better. Click for more details on www.breathingspacetherapies.com

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The following is the new copy for the testimonials which link through from this section of the text box and also from the ‘Red our client testimonials on the main copy out side the text box) Testimonials

The following are genuine comments from Breathing Space For Business clients. Names and companies have been withheld in order to protect confidentiality of the individuals concerned. However references can be provided on request.

‘Thanks for the help you’ve given our staff.   I don’t know what you do in there, but whatever it is, keep doing it!’

‘ Very useful, I think the tips on prioritisation/delegation will be useful for team members. I loved the breathing exercises and advice to work changes into 1 day a week at the start.’

‘ Excellent content. Love these courses!’

‘ The seminar has been unbelievably helpful – I will take a lot away from it.’

‘ My mentor, Annie, did wonders for my increasing my self-confidence. She was a wonderful sounding board - impartial yet full of useful tips and advice. It was really beneficial to have someone to talk to who wanted to understand the crux of my issues and do something to address them.

Since meeting Annie, I began to find my job significantly more enjoyable and felt satisfaction in implementing some of the suggestions she made.

I would definitely recommend mentoring to anyone who is keen to develop themselves, especially if they are going through - or have recently been through - a change in their life in some respect - whether home or work related or both.’

‘ she has found (your sessions) hugely beneficial … Thank you for all the time and effort you have put in …You have provided an independent conduit to help her channel her emotions and I think she has learned a great deal about herself’

‘ The session provided much food for thought and made me look at things I had not previously considered. It also made me reflect on areas I had not 'visited' in depth in quite some time.’

‘So motivating…’

‘Thanks for a great session!’

‘Once again, an inspiration!’

‘ very interesting & good life skills learning’

‘Thanks for helping T.   Sounds like a job well done!’

‘ very helpful and really made me look at things in a different light’

‘ I am really very well! Happier than I've felt in years. My friends and my boss have even noticed… I have more energy and I'm so much more relaxed and not letting things upset me so much. Thanks for the group session. It helped me to make the changes I needed to make.’

‘ I really enjoyed this session and feel that I’m taking a lot with me.’

The sooner we speak, the sooner your business starts to reap the benefits.

To arrange a meeting to discuss your organisation’s Stress Management needs, call Annie Lawler now on 0772 581 8884 or e-mail annie@breathingspaceforbusiness.com.

Stress Relieving CDs, Downloads & Masterclasses CLICK HERE

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FREE DOWNLOAD Creating Effective Teams  Click here  (same link as existing)

Latest HSE Statistics click here   (this now links through to new copy below )

Health & Safety Executive Statistics on Stress Levels in Britain

In financial terms the estimated cost of sickness absence to the UK as a whole is around £12 billion a year. Stress is the single largest cause of occupational ill health, accounting for around half of all days lost to work-related ill health in these sectors.

The 2006/07 survey of Self-reported Work-related Illness (SWI06/07) prevalence estimate indicated that around 530 000 individuals in Britain believed in 2006/07 that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill.

The 2007 Psychosocial Working Conditions (PWC) survey indicated that around 13.6% of all working individuals thought their job was very or extremely stressful.

The annual incidence of work-related mental health problems in Britain in 2006, as estimated from the surveillance schemes OPRA and SOSMI, was approximately 5,900 new cases per year. However, this almost certainly underestimates the true incidence of these conditions in the British workforce. The most recent survey of self-reported work-related illness (SWI06/07) indicates that an estimated 245 000 people first became aware of work-related stress, depression or anxiety in the previous 12 months.

Estimates from SWI06/07 indicate that self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety account for an estimated 13.8 million reported lost working days per year in Britain.

Survey data suggest the incidence rate of self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2006/07 is of a similar order to that in 2001/02. There had been a fall between 2004/05 and 2005/06, but this was followed by a rise back to the previous level in 2006/07. Both changes were statistically significant. THOR surveillance data shows a mixed picture with a falling trend in psychiatrist reports of work-related mental health between 1999 and 2006 but with occupational physician reports rising between 1999 and 2001 and then remaining steady. The ONS omnibus survey shows an overall downward trend in the proportion of people saying their job was very or extremely stressful between 2004 and 2006, levelling off in 2007.

Occupation and industry groups containing teachers and nurses, along with professional and managerial groups particularly those in the public sector have high prevalence rates of work-related stress in the SWI and SHAW surveys. The THOR datasets SOSMI and OPRA also report high incident rates of work-related mental illness for these occupational groups, along with medical practitioners and those in public sector security based occupations such as police officers, prison officers, and UK armed forces personnel.

Monthly tip archive (as per BST home page – will probably now do these as downloads?)

FREE Stress & Wellbeing in the Workplace Assessment” link to copy from corporate survey on stress in the workplace (attached)

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To discussed your business’s Stress Management & Wellbeing in the Workplace requirements, to make an enquiry or to book a meeting, please contact Annie Lawler on +44 (0)772 581 8884 or annie@breathingspaceforbusiness.com.

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