This talk on managing stress as a small business owner was present by Becky Wright to the Wiveliscombe 10 parishes business group on 24.11.14

1. Talk overview
10 Parishes Business Group Wiveliscombe
“Managing Stress Tools for work and home”
The cost of ignoring stress
How to recognise stress in yourself and others
Developing self confidence
Anxiety and stress management techniques.
Life redesign

3. Stress is .....
The UK Health & Safety Executive;
! 'Stress is the adverse reaction people have to
excessive pressure or other types of demand
placed on them'.

4. Cost of stress
! Every day over a quarter of a million people in the UK take time off
because of stress.
! Work-related stress caused workers in Great Britain to lose 10.4 million
working days in 2011/12 based on the LFS data
! On average, each person suffering from stress took 24 days off work. This
is one of the highest average days lost per case figure amongst the
recognised health complaints
! An alarming 68% of employers identified workload as the cause of
employees' stress related absences, while 60% blamed management
style/relationships at work. About 45% of those employees questioned
attributed absence-inducing stress to organisational change, while 41%
blamed pressure to meet targets.
! Chartered institute of Personnel and Development & HSE Government statistics

5. ! Two fifths of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
currently experience staff absence from work because of
stress.
! Also, 89 % of small business owner managers admit to
working while on holiday.
! Some 63% of owner managers who work on holiday say
they have argued with their partner because they have
continued to work.
! However 68 % of SME owner-managers say that despite
the stress they would happily set up another business.
! Health Assured study
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6. Without Stress
My Life
Would be Empty

7. How to stay stressed
The following provides
you with a few reasons
why you may like to
just stay stressed.

8. How to recognise stress in
yourself and others ?
Behaviour Mental
Physical Signs Emotional

9. Behaviour
you may:
! find it hard to sleep;
! change your eating habits;
! smoke or drink more;
! avoid friends and family; or
! have sexual problems
! Become more aggressive towards others

10. Mental
you may:
! be more indecisive;
! find it hard to concentrate;
! suffer loss of memory;
! feelings of inadequacy; or
! low self esteem.

11. Emotional
you are likely to:
! get irritable or angry;
! be anxious;
! feel numb;
! be hypersensitive; or
! feel drained and listless.

12. Physical Signs
might include:
! tiredness;
! indigestion and nausea;
! headaches;
! aching muscles; or
! palpitations.

13. What to do about stress?
! Identify the causes
! Is it work or personal related?
! Think about what you need right now pause for
thought.
! Locate sources of help, counselling and support
Stress is not a weakness

14. Learn to relax
! Switch off
! Get physical
! Listen to music
! Have a bath
! Book a treatment in
! Have some therapy
! Learn to let go

15. ! Drop your shoulders
! Eating healthily
! Getting a good nights sleep
! Learn some meditation
! Get a social life / support system
! Communicate
! Avoid a long hour culture
! Can you change your work environment smell
etc.

16. Time for a life re-design?

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Developing
Self Confidence
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Self confidence
! Take Action get it done
◦Be present
◦ Lighten up
◦Really, really want it.

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Face your fear
! Be curious
! Change your relationship to fear
! Be prepared
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An
important key to self- confidence is preparation.”
! Arthur Ashe

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Thank you
New Leaf Life Design
Becky Wright becky@newleaf.uk.com
@newleafonline
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