Lifestyle Stress

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• Lifestyle Stress

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• The latest World Health Organization (WHO)
  estimates show that over 60 of all deaths in the
  world are now caused by Non-Communicable Diseases
  (NCD)
• Note
• What is NCD?
• NCD refers to all non-infectious diseases
  resulting from lifestyle factors.

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• Lifestyle Stress NCD

• To cope
• Coffee
• Alcohol
• Cigarettes
• etc

• The Result (NCD)
• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Cancer
• Mental health problems
• Early burnouts
• Repeated stress injuries
• Urinary problem
• Reproductive problem
• Digestive problem
• Psychosomatic Illnesses

• The symptoms
• Depression
• Absenteeism
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Stress

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The source of Lifestyle Stress

• Work overload
• Time pressure and deadlines
• Work-related travel
• Long working hours
• Taking my work home
• Inadequately trained subordinates
• My beliefs conflicting with those of the
  organization
• Interpersonal relations
• Threat of job loss
• Dealing with unions
• Lack of power and influence
• Lack of career development

• Keeping up with new technology
• Dealing with environment groups
• My spouses attitude towards my work/career
• Demands of work on my relationship with my family
• Demands of work on my private and social life

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• The impact of lifestyle stress on organizations?
• 96 Higher medical costs
• 90 Employees have trouble focusing at work
• 86 Absenteeism effecting performance
• 84 Impact on the bottom lines of a company
• 70 of the diseases that could be prevented

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• Worldwide facts and figures
• 121 million people suffer from depression
• 1 million people die from suicide every year
• 10-20 million people attempt suicide

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• In the Unites States (US)
• Mood disorders cost U.S. employers USD16 billion
  dollars in lost work time annually
• 22.1 of Americans ages 18 and older (1 in 5
  adults) suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder
  in a given year

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• In the United Kingdom (UK)
• 40 million days are lost each year in the UK to
  workplace absenteeism
• 13.4 million working days are lost to stress,
  anxiety and depression
• 12.3 million to back and upper limb problems

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• In the United Kingdom (UK)
• 93 of employees cite colds and flu as their
  reason for being away from work
• In reality, at least 50 of all workplace absence
  has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with
  health

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• In the United Kingdom (UK)
• A whopping 11.5bn in 2002 was paid out in wages
  to absent employees and on additional overtime
  and temporary staff cover

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• In Malaysia (SourceSunday Mail 22nd July 2001)
• In 1996, 11 of Malaysians suffered from mental
  disorders
• In 1997, 3 out of 10 Malaysians suffered from
  mental disorders
• In 2001, 1 in 4 Malaysians, suffers from mental
  disorders

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• What is the best solution?
• Prevention
• Every 1 invested on prevention saves 16

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• What is the level of recognition of this
  phenomenon?
• To what level is it being monitored?
• To what level have nations and organizations
  responded?

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A new measure for the Wealth of a Nation
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• SourceThe Times of India, Bangalore (May 30,
  2007)
• London
• Move over, GDP and GNP, The GWI, or Gross
  Well-being Index, may finally become the defining
  statistical measure.
• Economists will launch the worlds first bid to
  measure individual happiness and well being to
  supplement the traditional UN and World Bank
  indicators of national income, consumer nirvana
  and Gross Domestic Product.
• The concept will focus on human well-being
  instead of wealth

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• Who is creating this index?
• World Bank, UN and WHO
• What does it measure?
• It is a measure of assessing poverty in terms of
  happiness

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• Thus, if dirt poor people in the developing world
  display a general sense of well-being,
  international surveys would henceforth record
  their wealth of happiness alongside their
  material poverty.
• From year 2008, this happiness index or well
  being index will come into force on a global
  level.

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• The seriousness of the problem
• Every individual undergoes lifestyle stress
• Individuals find their own ways to cope
• Few are able to cope effectively
• Over time the cope or response mechanism is
  personalized to form a mental mindset or life
  pattern
• By this time, the individuals personality
  changes with the mental mindset

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• Obvious displays of this personality
• an attitude of indifference at work
• avoidance of responsibility/accountability
• follow the herd mentality (playing it safe)
• absenteeism (high frequency of medical leave)
• irrational behaviour / response towards
  subordinates/clients
• procrastination /escapism (missing deadlines)
• depression (self victimization)

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• As an organization of people

X No. of Employees n( )
With enough n phenomenon, it can form a
organizational culture or a general mindset
within the organization, affecting and
influencing others.
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• Our Solution
• Transformatory
• Counseling TM

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Our Solution

• Transformatory Counseling

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Our Approach Holistic in Nature
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Key Benefits

• Holistic understanding of oneself and setting
  long term goals
• Improve personal and professional relationships
• Alignment of individual vision and growth to that
  of the organization
• Awareness of personal strengths and abilities
• Relationship building
• Resolve or cope with issues and conflicts in
  ones life

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• Details of the program
• 4 Sessions of One to One Transformative
  Counseling spread over 12 months period per
  person
• Quarterly feedback from the organization on the
  improvement to organizations bottom line.
• Final review meeting with management team after
  the 12 months program.
• Optional
• Need Analysis Report
• Group Aura Assessment Report