{"id":2558,"date":"2012-05-27T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T10:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2012-06-22T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:34:00","slug":"wellbeing-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wellbeing-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress &#038; Wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"rotofoto\" title=\"Wellbeing &amp; Stress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/stonebeam280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>We offer practical work-related advice, training and solutions around wellbeing and stress, as well as personal client sessions focused on your individual needs.<!--more--><\/strong>Stress is now the number on reason for both short and long-term absence from work, having overtaken colds and flu around a decade ago. It&#8217;s costing UK businesses over \u00a33billion a year in lost productivity and profits, not to mention the poorer performance of stressed employees and managers, along with the increased risk of accidents and lost engagement and morale.<\/p>\n<p>With proper training and awareness, we can help in many useful ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>managers can spot the signs of stress before they become an issue and take action<\/li>\n<li>everyone will understand what stress really is and the difference between useful and destructive stress<\/li>\n<li>employees can understand and manage their own stress much more effectively<\/li>\n<li>opportunities can be created for wellbeing-related activities in the workplace that are proven to work by reducing absenteeism, keeping productivity high and engagement and morale up<\/li>\n<li>managers can\u00a0avoid unfounded accusations of stress in the workplace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When we train with our &#8220;Beating Stress, Creating Calm&#8221; approach, we cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the three key factors that determine whether someone will work well within their comfort zone, when it&#8217;s OK to stretch them, and when they will move from &#8216;stretched&#8217; to &#8216;stressed&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>what true stress is (e.g. compared to tired, working hard, worried, confused etc.) and the real effects it has on the body and mind<\/li>\n<li>the six responses to work-related stresses and how to spot them coming, and even use them positively before they create problems<\/li>\n<li>the best ways to manage unavoidable stresses effectively and prevent burn-out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When \u00a0you want to know more, use our\u00a0<a title=\"Get in Touch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/contact-us\/\">contact page to get in touch<\/a>, email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@iceandlemon.com\">info@iceandlemon.com<\/a>\u00a0or call\u00a0<strong>0845 111 0360<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We offer practical work-related advice, training and solutions around wellbeing and stress, as well as personal client sessions focused on your individual needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}