Following the launch of Seijaku at last Thursday’s Communiqué Awards, we are delighted to announce the winner of the Seijaku competition. Pippa Perrett, senior medical writer from Lumanity, has won a GROW STRESSWISE Individual Coaching Programme and Goodie Bag worth £1,450.
It’s a proven fact that the perfect blend of pressure and stress can optimise performance, helping individuals, teams and organisations work faster, think sharper and grow through challenges. However, the modern workplace has normalised negative stress, accepting it as an unavoidable part of “the job”.
Currently, in the UK, 17.9 million working days are lost to stress every year, with 79% of employees regularly reporting moderate-to-high levels of stress. Stress costs businesses approximately £1,300 per employee each year to manage.
However, it’s possible to stop the trend of increasing rates of burnout, exhaustion, and mental health decline within organisations and instead create workplaces in which stress powers performance. It is possible to grow stresswise.
Catherine Keddie, co-founder of Seijaku, commented: “While some sectors are more prone to chronic stress than others, everyone in the working world will be affected by workplace stress at some point. It is a perfectly natural human response to external demands and pressures.
“We are delighted to have launched Seijaku at Communiqué, as both Paul and I know first-hand the demands and pressures involved in delivering the high-quality, impactful, and meaningful work being celebrated across healthcare communications.”
Paul Hutchings, co-founder of Seijaku, commented: “Our mission is to help all organisations optimise and gain greater control over stress by improving the relationship every individual, team and organisation has with it to ensure improved productivity, profitability and well-being.”
To find out more about Seijaku, visit: www.seijaku.org.uk