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Stress may be business as usual, but it's taking a toll on American workers. According to the American Institute of Stress, each year $300 billion (or $7,500 per employee) is spent on stress-related compensation claims, reduced productivity, absenteeism, health insurance costs, direct medical expenses, and employee turnover. Be the smart executive that realizes that finding ways to reduce workplace stress is a viable way toward profitability.
High levels of stress in the workplace may be caused by:
Coupled with increased understanding among employees, many of the underlying causes of stress can be decreased through innovative modifications in communication practices. This fundamental shift increases teamwork potential and productivity. By impacting the components of stress in your particular workforce, you'll be able to reduce stressors and increase productivity among your employees. You'll save bottom-line dollars in productivity, disability, and employee turnover costs.
Stressful work environments often results in conflict among employees. In fact, whenever diverse individuals come together to resolve issues, conflict can arise. The method of conflict resolution can make the difference between whether a conflict is utilized as a catalyst resulting in creative problem solving, or as an underlying wound that continues to fester.
When employees conflict with one another the agenda often becomes their feelings instead of the goals of the organization. Employees support proposals generated by people they get along with and undermine the ideas produced by those with which they have a conflict. Ironically, often one party does not know they have offended the other. The need to be right, coupled with the inability to listen are often the foundations of a disagreement. Conflict is often resolved by allowing every person the opportunity to clarify their perspective of the situation in a controlled environment. Through understanding and policies which support divergent views, productivity increases, time is saved, and an organization can grow through disagreement. The effective management of conflict is essential to effective teamwork and the competitiveness of any organization.
A well-designed, customized approach to a meeting or retreat will make all the difference in the outcome. We will work with your organization to design and deliver facilitation services to your groups in a timely and cost-effective manner. Our years of experience facilitating meetings will help you to clarify your goals so they are clear, meaningful, and achievable. Then, Workplace Communication, Inc will design and facilitate your event in a manner that meets the goals of your organization, and establishes action plans with accountability.
By utilizing facilitation tools that work, Workplace communication Inc.can help you to:
Coaching as part of your corporate leadership development is an important and powerful intervention on the individual level, resulting in changes throughout the entire organization. Executives often have stellar educational qualifications and few interpersonal skills. Educational qualifications are only as good as the method by which they are communicated. Coaching improves your ability to lead. Successful coaching starts with a confidential relationship of trust that assesses where you currently are, and where you would like to be. Utilizing an array of techniques, we are able to address a variety of issues which will impact your ability as a leader.
Coaching helps executives to develop their skills in:
We can provide the tools to excel with achievable, measurable results. Workplace Communication will use customized strategies to cultivate the less-developed skills of an individual while utilizing a manager’s strengths to their advantage. The outcome is a more productive workforce with increased teamwork and less employee turnover.
Group problem solving and teamwork are critical to the success of any organization. Whenever diverse individuals come together, special skills are needed to focus the group and resolve interpersonal issues which undermine the group process. A skilled facilitator can intervene to help the group achieve optimum performance. Workplace Communication Inc. can also help your organization to inspire team commitment through ongoing evaluation of specific team and organizational goals.