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The interactions between you as a person, your career, the workplace and your private life are subtle and complex. When there is stress at work or acute work life balance pressures, the misery may be due to "people problems" (eg an unreasonable boss or bad relationships with particular colleagues); structural issues (such as badly designed jobs and work systems); or situational anxiety (eg too much change creating generally low morale). You may be in the wrong career. The type of work you do can cause unbearable anxiety at particular times in your life - eg work life balance becomes a top career priority for many City solicitors and accountants once they have young children.
Careers Partnership (UK) will provide confidential, objective career coaching to cut through the confusion, reduce anxiety and deal with your work related stress or work life balance problems in the most constructive and least disruptive way possible.
Although all problems involving stress at work are different, typically they are best solved by working with your career management consultant through the following stages:-
- analysing the real causes of the stress at work and in your life
- developing practical low risk solutions to the work problems creating stress
- planning how to improve your life at work and your work life balance
- managing your progress towards a happier life at work, "tweaking" your plan as necessary with support from your career management consultant
Your career management consultant works with you one to one to find ways of removing the stress at work and stopping any workplace bullying. Your career management consultant may use a variety of techniques for working on these problems, including role play (eg helping you practise negotiations with your manager for a better work life balance), personal coaching and mentoring services, psychometric testing (for "bad fit" problems), job analysis, etc.
We are keenly aware of the importance of keeping personal risk to the minimum and of providing strong support during a time of intense anxiety and loneliness. Wherever practical, your career management consultant will help you build "alliances of interest" between yourself and the people - eg your boss - with some influence over the problems in your life. Where work life balance issues are concerned, for example, there is scope for negotiating mutually satisfactory change when the employer wants to avoid the huge costs of high staff turnover and hang on to talented staff.
Depending on the nature of the work related stress, helpful solutions may range from changing the ways your boss or colleagues communicate with each other to learning more about protecting yourself from the unpleasant aspects of continuing uncertainty.
Each stress reduction programme is individually designed to meet your personal circumstances, requirements and budget. Appointments with your career management consultant can be provided outside working hours, as can the Helpline support.
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DEALING WITH WORK RELATED STRESS |
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Adults, living anywhere in the UK, facing major career management or workplace problems.
This service is for people whose work related stress may be caused by one or more of the following:-
- being in the wrong job or wrong work environment
- mismatches of management style, personality clashes, etc
- work performance problems (perceived or real)
- problems with the organisational structure (eg being held accountable although you've no authority to influence results or behaviour)
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| Description: |
The process begins with an unhurried but focused discussion of the workplace problem or work life balance concerns with your career management consultant, resulting in a far better understanding of the key issues, practical constraints and range of possible solutions.
Improvements in the situation may be achieved through:-
- evaluating the potential for changing the job, structure or work environment to remove the problem
- planning how to "negotiate" the introduction of these changes with management, colleagues, etc
- coaching to enhance personal effectiveness (where the performance problems are real) or to alter management's perception of the individual (where it's an "image" problem)
- designing a personal training plan and "recruiting" the individual's manager - where possible - to support it
- helping the individual to move out of the problem situation, either by assisting them to make a sideways move (or promotion) or by equipping them for a new post with a new employer
- coaching the individual in techniques to lessen their anxiety, boosting the energy they have available to solve the problems causing stress at work.
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| Location: |
Leicester (70 mins by rail from London and close to motorways) |
| Fee: £195 (depending on requirements) |
For further information:
Email enquiries@careers-partnership-uk.com
Tel no: (01455) 284 023 |
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