Stress And Time Management

Stress And Time Management

Stress and time management are one of the most frequently clicked-on pages on our website.

It can come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the trials and tribulations of working in healthcare that stress and indeed burn-out is a major hazard and contributor to many incidents of avoidable harm and staff turnover.

Understanding the deep causes of stress like the interaction of personal and professional life demands is a start. Add in skills in handling the behaviour of colleagues at all levels and there is a recipe for improvement. Not just for yourself but as an aid to changing the climate and from there the culture.

Empathy is often not well understood. Confusion with sympathy is prevalent. One helps cope with stress, the other arguably exacerbates it.

That behaviour can be encouraged to be modified. Note encouraged not instructed.

No-one likes to be told how to behave, it doesn’t work with teenagers and anyone beyond those years. However, learning skills of coaching and advising can be achieved.

At Atrainability we have a team with many years’ experience of helping others to understand their own circumstances and with help and support change for the better. Only last week feedback from a course said a mature professional had learned significant things about themselves.

We are never too old to improve and develop.