How can we help?
MyKnowledgeMap provides a complete toolkit for individuals and organisations to help reduce stress, improve health and well-being, and improve both personal and organisational performance. Accessible from a PC or company intranet, our Personal Stress Management and Wellbeing Course allows you to keep track of how far through the course you or your employees have progressed.
How can it 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.
How can it help my 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.
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 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 per person per day £166 (CBI 2004)
- What are your absence figures like?
Some success stories
Standard Life Health Care
Reduced staff turnover by 25% and reduced staff absence by 5% within a year of of the introduction of an on-line health management programme for its staff.
Somerset Council
Since the introduction of stress management interventions and improved counselling services, absence level fell from 10.75 days in 2001/2 to 8.29 days in 2003/4 difference of 2.46 days.
Represents a total saving of £1.93 million in the last 2 years.
BT
Introduced a number of initiatives under the company's "Workfit" programme. As a result they exceeded their targets for improvement and in 2003 the company saved £5.5 million from reduced sickness absence.