Your Company's Behavioral Health

The behavioral health of your company depends on the behavioral health of the workforce. Effective stress control is the core of behavioral health in the workforce and in the overall health of your company. Stress Directions helps companies improve their overall behavioral health by reducing stress in the workforce. Our case studies show how we've turned measurable stress into measurable results for Fortune 50 companies, government agencies and others by:

Stress knowledge promotes behavioral health and saves money in the workplace. Independent studies show effective organizational stress interventions:

  • Lower operating costs: for every $1 spent on stress management there is a $7 return on investment
  • Increase access to, utilization, and valuation of human capital
  • Promote a company's leadership role in nurturing a productive and healthy work environment in turbulent times
  • Leverage intranet technology investments in support of strategic and workforce initiatives while increasing individual and organizational stress knowledge
  • Reduce health-care costs, worker's compensation claims, disability claims, absenteeism, presenteeism, turnover, and workplace accidents
  • Enhance productivity at all levels of the workforce.

Stress Directions has the metrics and analytics to assess and interpret the behavioral health of your workforce. We will help you develop targeted, data-based programs that:

  • Address the overall behavioral health of your company
  • Assist employees in developing coping skills and positive lifestyle behaviors
  • Audit workplace characteristics that affect employee behavioral health and productivity
  • measurably decrease the negative impacts of stress on the behavioral health of your organization 

Stress knowledge helps reduce corporate liability. Research shows that in the United States:

  • Inappropriate anger in the workplace, a symptom of stress and frustration, is a leading cause of firings - cited ahead of job incompetence.
  • There are nearly two million instances of assault in the workplace per year.
  • Homicide was the second leading cause of death in the workplace from 1992 to 1996, after fatal accidents.
  • For organizations and their employees, our customized services lead to positive action and behavioral changes that reduce stress and promote behavioral health in a consistent, organized manner, and help you maintain a healthy and productive workplace.

    Use the Company Cost Calculator to see how much stress is costing your company and the potential dollar savings of effective stress control.