While the report does not diagnose, its tone moves from suggesting action to strongly recommending it, depending on an employee's scores. Some companies stick to basics like relaxation exercises, but resiliency training has brought a new level of sophistication to teaching skills that have personal and professional application. Adaptiv has translated those tools into a corporate training program that applies these skills to dealing with pressure and change, improving individual and team productivity and handling adversity more effectively. The program has been piloted in a number of companies but is just beginning to be actively marketed. The 12-hour program teaches seven skills centered around a core of cognitive therapy techniques that have been validated in more than 10 years of research.
Distorted beliefs are almost always counterproductive.
Magnified under stress, they can lead to frustration, a sense of loss or paralysis, anger and self-blame. Rather, participants learn to identify the problems accurately, accept their relative lack of control over them, and then move on and deploy their resources where they can do the most good. The programs outlined above assume a high value for employee health. Several of these tactics require only a series of consistent, repeated messages in company newsletters or on Intranets. Some firms, however, might steer clear of mentioning depression at all out of fear that doing so could drive up mental health claims.