At Marel, it is important to us that you feel good about yourself and enjoy your work. You may always have a less pleasant or busy day, but it is not our intention that you experience stress from your work every day.
National figures show that the number of absenteeism days due to work-related stress has increased significantly and on average one in seven workers suffers from burn-out symptoms (TNO Factsheet, 2022). To prevent long-term complaints of work stress and a possible burn-out, it is important to know how to deal with stress and to create a balance between work and private life. Of course, you also need to have enough energy to maintain this balance.
How to do this? Read more about workshops and training courses you can attend below. Also, our VERSTERKers share their tips on dealing with work stress and keeping a good balance.
Workshops, trainings and more
Samen Sterk has different offerings available around the Together in Balance. Take a look at the offer below. You can use your DI budget for this!
Workshop: How to deal with stress (and relaxation)
After this afternoon, you will know more about how stress works on your body, how to recognise and reduce stress signals and how to better cope with stress. The workshop will be given by our colleague Gerard Feikema.
Unfortunately, the training on 30 November is already full. But you can sign up for the waiting list.
Training Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a method proven effective that helps with stress symptoms, among other things. During this training by ‘Body and Mind’, you will learn how to stay in the now and experience more peace in your daily life.
The Energy Check
The Energy Check helps you understand your current energy level and gives you the tools to become more energetic in the future.
More information
Tips from our VerSTERKers
Podcast: Universiteit van Nederland (Dutch)
Milou Veenhuis: This year, work stress among young people is a major theme in work stress week. The podcast “Why do so many Millennials suffer from burnout?” discusses this topic with scientific backing.
App: ‘Calm’
Maike Brinkhof: Use this app between jobs or after a working day to ‘switch off’ completely with short meditations or breathing exercises.
Boek: ‘Ik’ van Remco Claassen (Dutch)
Maike Brinkhof: This book helps you find answers to key life questions: Who are you and what do you want? This book can be a great help in figuring out what you want or are looking for in your work, for example (and what is currently missing and causing stress).
Boek: ‘7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey
Rob Noteboom: This book is about personal leadership, in it you will learn to become more effective in your private and work environment and the balance between them.
The 7 Habits training courses will be held again this year. Register quickly via Workday Learning!
YouTube: Yoga
Online: Werkdrukkompas (Dutch) and Koerskaart (also available in English!)
Hanneke Timmers: Het werkdrukkompas provides insight into the factors that influence your workload and offers you a handy tool to discuss this with your management.
With this card you will find out how to keep working well, healthily and with pleasure. This card also helps to start the conversation about work stress and job satisfaction.
You can find many more useful tools and instruments against work-related stress on het Arboportaal.
HSE Workplace Stress Risk Assessment
This questionnaire was created to give you more insight into your stress risks. The report is automatically shared with your manager and HR Business Partner. This allows you to discuss your mental health together. Completing the questionnaire will only take you 7 minutes.