How can we help?
The ApP Learning Academy provides a range of products for individuals and organisations to help reduce stress, improve health and well-being, and improve both personal and organisational performance. All ApP Academy products can be accessed directly from a PC anywhere in the world or from a company intranet. In certain cases it may also be possible to provide the materials on CD ROM.
How can ApP help me?
- Understand, identify, and learn to reduce stress.
- Find out how to adopt a healthier lifestyle and improve personal well-being.
- Discover tips and techniques to feel more confident and to achieve your true potential.
- Learn to relax
How can ApP e learning Academy help my organisation?
Interactive e-learning provides a cost and time effective alternative to conventional training.
Progression of staff through courses can be monitored by the manager and a certificate of successful completion generated at the end.
Advantages for the manager
- Per head e-learning is much more cost effective than conventional training
- No need for expensive off-site training venues
- The learning can be carried out a topic at a time so staff are not away from their work for long periods
- So there's no need for expensive cover
- And no stress for colleagues who may otherwise have to cover
- Accessible to remote and home workers
- Useful tool for manager/staff discussions and one-to-one or group discussions
- Ideal for training large numbers, providing accessibility to training for a larger percentage of the workforce.
- Ideal therefore for mandatory training
- Ideal as part of employee induction training
Advantages for staff
- More effective, as individuals can work at their own pace and can revisit the material as often as they wish
- No need to take notes as all material is accessible
- Interactive and material presented in different modalities to appeal to different learning styles
- Training less stressful than group training
- Learning is totally confidential; managers cannot see actual content
Advantages to the organisation
- Your staff will feel more valued and cared for
- Staff absence will reduce, and performance and productivity will rise
- Your reputation as an ethical, caring organisation will be strengthened, aiding recruitment and investment
- You will meet your legal duties of care for your staff, reducing the risk of litigation
- Your organisation will be more effective and more profitable
A Success Story
Standard Life Health Care reduced staff turnover by 25% and reduced staff absence by 5% within a year of the introduction of an on-line health management programme for its staff.
The statistics
- Approximately 560,000 are suffering from work related stress. (HSE 2001/2004) making stress anxiety and depression the second most common cause of work-related illness
- Approximately 13.0 million working days per year lost due to work-related stress (HSE 2001/2004)
- An average of 28.5 working days lost per year per affected case (HSE 2004)
- Cost of absence is £116 per person, per day (CBI 2004)
- What are your absence figures like?