Welcome to Stress Management Plus

Stress Management Plus is a workplace wellbeing company, involved in promoting wellbeing and resilience for individuals and organisations - thereby helping organisations to cut costs by reducing sick absence levels, improving performance and reducing conflict - and supporting business and individuals to perform. We do this primarily via the provision of an Employee and Organisation Support Service (one-to-one support for staff, managers and the HR function) and via group trainings in Developing and Maintaining Resilience, Managing Pressure and Preventing Stress, Promoting Wellbeing and Preventing and Managing Stress as a Manager, Realistic Optimism and How to Cut Sick Absence. We also provide Mediation Services and Critical Incident De-Briefing sessions.

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Based in the Reading area but with a nationwide coverage, we are involved in supporting the organisation and the individual to maximise performance - and cut the costs associated with poor performance and sick absence - and encouraging, maintaining and promoting their wellbeing. Our Employee and Organisation Support Service helps businesses to do just that, with regular visits to the office, providing a visible, on-site presence. We have a great deal of expertise and experience in supporting companies large and small - our staff ran the Home Office in-house staff counselling service - and we see ourselves as an extra arm of the HR function, directly supporting the business.

For the organisation, a lack of wellbeing can get in the way of the business performing as well as it should do. That’s not healthy for staff, or for the bottom line.

For the business, apart from the legal (health and safety) requirements, it may be that

you are concerned about the level of sick absence and the effect it's having on others' workloads and business performance, and the human and financial cost
staff aren't performing and its impacting on the quality of work being produced and consequently the bottom line
you are concerned about the level of staff morale
you want to minimise the chances of litigation

There are of course many, many reasons why promoting wellbeing and managing stress makes good sense. For example

promoting wellbeing will lead to a more contented workforce, who will perform more effectively
when you have staff who tell you they're struggling, or it comes to light via another indicator (e.g. management information or as a result of a staff survey)
if the company is going through change and uncertainty, and you want to ensure that they cope and can deal with the transition without compromising their wellbeing and company performance

For the individual

you may have something on your mind getting in the way of performance
as a manager you have a management issue you're struggling with
you/your organisation are having to deal with change and uncertainty
you're feeling under pressure
you're struggling with a relationship at home/at work
you're experiencing conflict in the workplace
you'd like to learn how to be more assertive

Stress Management Plus also provide the following:

SMP Training

To provide support to staff, managers and the organisation more widely, helping to improve and enhance wellbeing, and performance

Managing Pressure and Preventing Stress for Individuals
Promoting Wellbeing and Preventing and Managing Stress as a Manager
Realistic Optimism
Assertiveness Skills
How to Cut Sick Absence
Developing and Maintaining Resilience

One-to-one coaching

We provide coaching with a view to

promoting wellbeing and preventing and managing stress
improving performance
improving personal effectiveness

Stress/Wellbeing Audits

A stress survey across the organisation - using the HSE Management Standards approach - to identify what's going well and not so well/potential problem areas that need addressing. We have conducted a number of surveys on behalf of organisations, mainly in the public sector.

Please contact us for further details of the above on 0118 9001652 or email info@stressmanagementplus.com

We're helping organisations (see our client list) to save money every day, just in reducing sick absence costs and the costs of under-performance.

Get in touch now to start doing the same for your organisation today. Here are some example case studies demonstrating the benefits of investing in wellbeing.