Stress Busters

Full day  

A workshop for your office  

Most successful business people understand one infallible truth – the key to successful business is people. If you get people and you get the point that they are the key to your business success, then you will get this workshop.  

Absenteeism 

 Work-related illnesses are increasing – Stress and muscular-skeletal problems cause up to 70% of long-term disabilities.

• Absence costs UK industry an estimated 220 million working days or £13 billion per year.

• The average direct cost of sickness absence across the economy is £522 per employee per year. This represents a 7% increase since 2001. Adding the indirect costs of absence, the amount is doubled!

• Source: Chartered Inst. of Personnel and Development – Employee absence 2002 *based on a working yr. of 228 days

How the Stress Buster Workshop can reduce absenteeism.  

Goals

Learn how to:   

• Encourage play and increase creativity, productivity and ideas.  

• Fear of failure is the greatest inhibitor of new ideas. However, there are two types of failure – dumb and intelligent. Learn the difference.  

• Identify the difference between dumb and intelligent failure?  

• Deal with issues within your organisation and business through humour.  

• Create a work environment that is fun, people focused, competitive and  consequently less stressful and more productive.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:  

• Less stress long term.  

• Increased laughter at work.  

• Improved communication skills.  

• A more fun and productive office… or as they say, your money back.  

This workshop is inspired by Jack’s experience of working for Jack Swaysland’s shift at Casey Jones burger bar. This was an eighties burger restaurant at Victoria Station. There were three shifts. Making and selling burgers can be mind numbingly dull. Swaysland ran one of them. (and Jack Milner was one of his “crew.”). His shift was significantly more productive than the other shifts. They sold more burgers and bigger (and therefore more profitable) portions than any other shift. Why? His employees seemed to work less hard, they took their time with customers, and they enjoyed themselves. The other Shift managers couldn’t work it out. Swaysland’s answer: “My crew have fun!” And here’s what the man himself says, 25 years later. Jack Swaysland is now UK Operations director for Papa John’s Pizza  

 “It was at Casey Jones that I really learnt and developed my own leadership style that in truth has stayed pretty similar (albeit with a few tweaks here and there!) throughout my career.  

To me we could have been selling anything, I didn’t see us as a burger business I saw us as a people business that happened to sell burgers! Results be they good or bad flow from people, so how your team feels about themselves and about the team in general is pretty key.  

It’s was all about making people feel part of something that they were making a positive contribution to. To do this we always looked to have fun I didn’t lead my team in a sterile way but was always inviting opinion and input, we had a sense of real camaraderie and that it was OK to rely on one another whilst still having some friendly competitiveness at work be it winning an incentive or measuring ourselves versus the other shifts or stores and seeing how we could go one better.  

The other important thing we tried to do was not always just focus on work but what we all got up to outside of work too, we all had pretty diverse backgrounds and our team seemed the richer for it.

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Jack Milner Comedy Workshops
tel: 01494 772 908
email: jack@jackmilner.com