Let's now explore the objective data related to the impact of stress on the team or individual. As stress starts to have an effect, it often will manifest itself in ways that can be measured objectively. One way of thinking about this source of data is that this represents the quantifiable impact of stress on the individual. Think carefully about how stress might impact on the individual or team apps absence, pest sickness or other types of absence increased or can you identify worrying trends or patterns in absence data. Health linked to the above is the absence related to health problems that are stress related. many health problems are stress related doctors spend a large proportion of their time treating people with psychosis.
Matic health problems. performance has performance deteriorated recently in ways you can quantify for example sales figures production levels service levels call handling. It is worth thinking about whether the employee concerned was previously a capable employee. If yes, it is more likely that deteriorating performance is linked to stress factors. Is there evidence of links between increasing pressures stressors and worsening poor performance? staff turnover are more people leaving the team for stress related reasons.
Exit interviews may provide valuable data in this regard. Requests for support have requests for support increased in number recently, complaints have complaints increased in frequency from staff about team members. accidents or mistakes have there have been increasing numbers of accidents or mistakes. Sadly, stress impacts on cognitive performance is As well as general work performance, people under stress or as a consequence more likely to suffer concentration, lapses and problems with memory. Also consider qualitative data. Qualitative data is really about how people describe their own experience in their own words.
It can come from conversations, formal and informal comments, one to ones and importantly from team meetings, which are a good place to gather data related to stress risk. Are there other quantifiable or qualitative data related to the impact of stress that you could identify