As you know, managing workplace mental health has always been a priority for the building and construction industry. I’m sure your company is not exempt. Yet despite major investment, the sector still has the third most-stressed workforce of any enterprise. Suicide levels have also remained high over the last decade.
Now, mental health research is revealing that social isolation, uncertainty about the future, financial problems and other issues created by COVID-19 has pushed stress levels through the roof.
The consequences of your key employees being unable to function because of exacerbated stress levels – just at the point of their return to work – doesn’t bear thinking about. But think about it we must.
Because unless you and your colleagues are equipped to handle the probable crisis, it may be too late to halt what could be a disaster. Not just for your business, but the entire building and construction industry.
Why is this? The simple answer is that current provisions focus on the treatment of stress symptoms rather than the cause. And you know who’s always being blamed for the whole stress situation? The building and construction industry itself!
Companies like yours have continually been told: ‘It’s your fault staff are suffering from stress. You’re not supporting them.’‘It’s a macho culture so you need to get stressed-out employees to talk about how they feel.’‘You need to reduce their time away from the family, provide more manageable deadlines, hand out free gym memberships to help calm them down.’ Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is, the building and construction industry has not caused the stress. Uninformed advisors who want you to spend company money on pandering to what they believe are the answers to stress are wasting your precious time and resources.
Stress is an ‘inside job’ on the part of those suffering from stress. That’s why using any ‘traditional’ courses of action to combat the forecasted stress calamity simply won’t work.
But here’s the good news. I have developed a stress-management programme specifically for the building environment. A programme that can deliver dramatic results for managing stress within your business. Called Stress C.A.R.E.™, it’s based on my 27 years of helping people manage their stress, not just here in the UK, but internationally. I believe your company could truly benefit from instigating Stress C.A.R.E.™ and seeing for yourself the level of success it can achieve.
The Stress C.A.R.E.™ programme’s robust framework is designed to drastically reduce stress at significantly greater levels than anything the industry has ever experienced in the past. The value-based and goal- driven underpinning is designed to give you a true return on your investment in workplace mental health management.
It’s like no other programme because it places the responsibility to manage stress firmly on the shoulders of those who are suffering from it.
It teaches workplace mental health managers about the true nature of stress in a way they’ve probably never heard before.
It identifies four specific areas where stress prevails, on site or in the office. And how to deal with it efficiently and effectively.
It provides an exclusive, qualified mental health coaching system not available from anyone else.
It delivers motivated, focused employees, helping reduce absenteeism and generating better working relationships with peers and sub-contractors.
Its short-term positive results lead to long-term workplace improvements by enabling the employees to alter and control their thoughts, attitudes and behaviours – the main causes of stress.
The predicted impending stress levels could affect many of your employees if the appropriate focus isn’t given to dealing with it.
I know that one of your priorities is the welfare of all those who work for you. So I hope I’m not being presumptuous in believing you want the very best support to help you deal with the anticipated crisis ahead. Stress C.A.R.E.™ stands alone as the superior approach.
The bottom line is, stressed employees lead to lost time, missed deadlines and the resultant financial loss or penalties for your company. Something I’m sure you could do without in these challenging times.
Forgive the pun, but if we want to improve mental health – particularly stress – in the built environment, we must start with a proper foundation. And considering what may be up ahead, the sooner, the better.
I can offer you that foundation.
I hope we can get to talk as soon as possible – and start dealing with workplace stress successfully. For the sake of your organisation, and indeed the whole building and construction industry.