kühnes gesundheitsmanagement

You can use your management style to influence the health of your employees – both positively and, unfortunately, negatively as a result of a lack of awareness. In this two-day seminar you will learn to understand the connections between management, performance, job satisfaction and employee health. We will clarify what salutogenic personnel management means and why it is beneficial for you and your organization. You will learn how important your own health-related behavior is for your staff. We will use concrete examples to train you in health-oriented management.

This seminar is right for you if you ...

• have a management position or are a team leader
• want to know how healthy your management style is
• want to make your own work behavior healthier and thus become a better role model
• want to improve your perception of the well-being or “state of non-well-being” of your staff
• would like to enhance your ability to communicate sensitively, clearly and honestly

Content of the seminar:

• Explanation of the connections between management, organizational culture, employee health, employee satisfaction, performance and productivity
• The influencing variables of healthy leadership
• A test on the health orientation of your own management style with individual results assessment
• Self-reflection: How healthy is your way of working, where are you a good role model and where a bad one?
• Individual training of the concrete (communication) skills required for healthy leadership.
• Case examples

Methods

Lectures, discussion, individual and group work, practical exercises, coaching

Everybody feels stressed at times, but persistent chronic stress can damage your health. In this two-day seminar we look at the causes of your feeling of stress. You will get to know var¬ious methods for coping with stress on a long-term basis and develop concrete behaviors and individual ways to reduce stress. You will also become acquainted with the relaxation procedures of Jacobson’s Progressive Muscle Relaxation and the breathing and mindfulness techniques of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) developed by Kabat-Zinn.

This seminar is right for you if you …

• often feel stressed.
• want to increase and consolidate your strategies for coping with stress.
• want to calm yourself faster and more easily.
• have the feeling that the demands you place on yourself and those that your employer places on you are not compatible with the working conditions.
• want to complete the tasks allotted to you more easily and with greater pleasure.

Note: If you feel in imminent danger of burning out or have just had a period of being burnt out, please contact me before you book so that we can check whether the seminar is suitable for you at this point in time.

Content of the seminar:

• What is stress? Definition and explanations of its biological functions.
• Appraisal of your situation and a stress test: how burdened and stressed am I?
• What are my personal stressors and stress situations?
• Stress regulation methods: bodily relaxation methods, mental means of stress reduction and the development of helpful rituals to reduce stress.
• Modification of stress-inducing demands, attitudes and appraisals.
• Perception and safeguarding of your own inner limits.
• Mobilising resources: ways to achieve well-being.

Methods

Lectures, discussion, individual and group work, practical exercises, a stress test, relaxation techniques

Are you suffering from severe emotional exhaustion and reduced performance? These may be (initial) signs of a burnout syndrome. The interplay of chronic overtaxation, pressure and stress, lack of possibilities to exert influence and scope for action coupled with high expecta¬tions of yourself are a good breeding ground for a gradually slide into the burnout spiral. In this two-day seminar we will be discussing the factors that can lead to burnout. You will find out your own individual burnout risk and get to know some effective and important ways to escape the burnout spiral - or to avoid sliding into it in the first place.

This seminar is right for you if you …

• are struggling with a chronically high level of stress at work.
• often feel exhausted, tired and drained.
• often feel rushed.
• are becoming increasingly irritable.
• want to identify your inner drivers.
• would like to learn how to manage yourself in a healthy way.
• want to enjoy life more (again).

Content of the seminar:

• Definition: What is burnout and in what circumstances does it arise?
• What are the signs that burnout is developing? The 7 phases of burnout.
• Individual risk determination: are you at risk and if so, where do you stand in the burnout development process?
• Your personal coping strategies no longer measure up to the chronic stress → concrete ways to exit the burnout spiral.
• The 6 principles for protecting the self against the risk of burnout.
• Setting limits
• Moderating your inner drivers
• A mindful attitude towards life: learn to avoid external and internal generators of stress.

Methods

Lectures, discussion, individual and group work, practical exercises, a test to measure burnout, relaxation techniques, exchange of experience, stress reduction techniques for daily use

You are looking forward to your retirement as the time comes closer. And at the same time you are worried, because many people are bothered by losing their professional identity and being thrown back on themselves more than they imagined beforehand. In this two-day seminar we look at how you define your wishes and goals for your third phase of life and how you can put them into concrete practice. You will learn prophylactic coping strategies for the period of disillusionment. The program is rounded off by some financial and health tips.

This seminar is right for you if you …

• want to prepare yourself actively for your retirement.
• want to do something about fulfilling your long-cherished dreams and wishes.
• want to avoid falling into an “emotional hole” when you retire.
• want to avoid experiencing “pensioner stress” or “hyperactivity of the elderly”.
• want to achieve a positive work-life balance after ending your professional career.

Contents of the seminar:

• The seven phases of the transition from working life to retirement.
• How to reorganize your everyday life and couple relationship after retirement.
• Creative planning for the future: what dreams, wishes, interests and needs do you have for the future and how can you realize them?
• Reorganizing your finances: what do you need to pay attention to, what can you expect?
• How will you keep fit in the future: suggestions for both body and mind.
• Your future work-life balance in retirement.
• Measures to prevent possible crises.

Methods

Lectures, individual and group work, practical exercises, creative techniques, exchange of experience

Resilience is the ability to keep restoring one’s mental balance, even in crises. People who are mentally strong approach problems constructively, fall ill less often and find it easier to cope with challenges. The good thing about resilience is that you can increase this strength through training. In this two-day seminar we will define the concept of resilience and test your resilience potentials. You will learn about the seven pillars of resilience and which personal characteristics you can use to strengthen your inner stability. We will do exercises to develop effective strategies for promoting and developing resilience.

This seminar is right for you if you …

• want to strengthen your mental resilience.
• want to prepare yourself well to cope with future demands.
• want to keep calm and balanced in situations that appear to be insoluble.
• want to come out of crises stronger.
• want to increase your acceptance and optimism.

Contents of the seminar:

• What is resilience and what are the factors that influence it?
• Resilience test: which of the character traits that are important for resilience can you identify in yourself?
• The 7 pillars of resilience.
• Developing the pillars of resilience that are important for you.
• Training optimism: letting go of inner attitudes that are blocking you, moving on towards greater optimism
• Achieving inner harmony even in circumstances that are not harmonious.

Methods

Lectures, discussion, individual and group work, practical exercises, experiential exercises on the ability to withstand stress, mental techniques