Executive Coaching for Stress Resiliency – The High Costs of Stress

Stress Resiliency at Work 

Are you working in an organization where leaders model stress resiliency? Do the leaders in your organization help others to become more stress resilient? Does your company or law firm offer wellness or stress management programs for management and employees?

One of the most powerful questions one can ask is “How well do I manage my stress?” Stress resilient leaders have calm energy and help others become stress resilient.

Are you a leader who models a calm and reassuring leadership style?  Are you able to create a high performance workplace by creating a workplace where employees are healthy and fully engaged? Do you and your workforce have a healthy work-life balance? Does your organization encourage prevention and focus on wellness.

The Costs of Stress

Stress can be defined as the cognitive, emotional, biophysical and behavioral reaction to a threat, real or perceived.

Stress reactions are costly. Stressed executives can exhibit the same heart-rate increase, elevated blood pressure and hormonal release when running late for a meeting or confronting an armed thug. Stress depletes our physical, emotional and mental resources, which ultimately reduces companies’ productivity and profits.

The Canadian consulting firm Chrysalis contends stress is responsible for 19 percent of absenteeism, 40 percent of turnover, 30 percent of disability costs and 60 percent of workplace accidents.
 
Healthcare costs for stressed workers are 46 percent higher. Total stress-related business costs (disability, death, insurance, medical expenses, accidents, loss of employees, sick leave and reduced/lost productivity) total between $250 billion and $300 billion annually in the United States. Starbucks, which prides itself on its employee programs, now spends more on healthcare than on coffee procurement.

Americans’ working hours increased 3 percent from 1979 to 1999. We are sleeping approximately two hours less a night than people living 50 years ago. Far too many people whose jobs should help sustain life find them to be a source of stress and fear, killing them spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically.

Working with a seasoned executive coach trained in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership assessments such as the Bar-On EQ-i and CPI 260 can help you become an inspiring leader who displays the qualities of calm leadership and stress resiliency. You can become a leader who models emotional intelligence and social intelligence, and who inspires people to become happily engaged with the strategy and vision of your company or law firm.

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