The aim of the project is to prevent burnout at work and raise resilience by developing toolkits for SMEs staff, management staff, SME owners to help them to forecast burnout ( develop coaching and counselling methods and tools) recognize the warning signs, to take steps to get balance back and to change peoples’ approach to a balanced life, to improve working conditions, reduce the cost of burnout, stress. The project outcomes will be E-learning tutorials with webinars, videos with recorded coaches, questionnaires to self-assess. The project supports ICT-based teaching learner-centred, promotes access to and learning through OER. The project will also develop framework about burnout and resilience (background) , the assessment to explore and recognize B&R and guidelines for workshops. Burnout is a rapidly growing problem for both employees and employers in all European countries, it is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. According to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work — facts and figures stress is the second most frequently-reported work-related health problem, affecting 22% of workers from the EU. Studies suggest that stress is a factor in between 50% and 60% of all lost working days. This represents a huge cost in terms of both human distress and impaired economic performance. The number of people suffering from stress-related conditions caused or made worse by work is likely to increase due to the changing world of work which is making increased demands on workers. If the stress response continues over a longer period, or if it is particularly intense, this may have pathological ramifications. Research has proven that stress at work is associated with cardiovascular diseases , musculoskeletal diseases , immunological problems , and problems with mental health (anxiety and depression disorders).The project will develop 2 toolkitsthe toolkit for resilience - how to maintain,strenghten your own resilience, the toolkit - how to help others in strenghtening the resilience of others, assessment tool to explore and recognize burnout and resilience, framework - to give some background about burnout and resilience, and a gudelines for workshop in the elearning (m- learning) format. The project target group is SMEs sector (almost 99% of companies in Europe are SMEs.) , owners, managers ,as this sector often do not have enough financial resourses to organize trainings and is at risk of being left without support. Each partner will involved local participants who will participate in piloting and dissemination activities. They will be: SMEs staff, management staff, local partners staff. The project forecast that there should be also additional participants reached by dissemination and promotional acticities. The results of the project are overwhelming. Through the use of e- learning the general access to lifelong learning will be widen. Additionally, the project will improve the mobility of educators throughout Europe, of people involved in the project and the general mobility of employees and support the development of innovative ICT content. The project will cause a positive change such as:- the general working conditions will improve - less stress and tools to prevent burnout and raising resilience,- less people suffering from stress and equipped with tools to fight burnout and raise their resilience,- self - assessment tools to assess participants resilience and help them raise their resilience, - less people suffering from stress-related conditions caused by work (cardiovascular, musculoskeletal disease, immunological problems),- less absences caused by stress at work, decrease in the cost of these absences,- better health of staff, wellbeing, improved satisfaction with life, possitive emotions,-positive effect on health and resilience,- new courses/trainings - by that raised resilience of those people, extended knowledge on the burnout prevention,- impact on teachers/trainers/staff of the partners ' institutions - new methodology, didactics, new skills - improved knowledge of foreign languages,- further cooperation between institutions,- further cooperation between the partners within new European projects,- new contacts, professional relations for the target groups.
The aim of the project was to prevent burnout at work and raise resilience by developing toolkits for SMEs staff, management staff, SME owners to help them to forecast burnout ( develop coaching and counselling methods and tools) recognize the warning signs, to take steps to get balance back and to change peoples’ approach to a balanced life, to improve working conditions, reduce the cost of burnout, stress. Main project rezults developed during the project lifetime are: - Framework about burnout and resilience - Assessment to explore and recognize burnout and resilience - Toolkit for resilience - 5 toolkits, 5 ways to raise resilience. Toolkits are linked to the test on identifying factors that hinder or help your resilience.5 toolkits are: 1. Personal coping 2. Experience of work 3. Health and wellbeing 4. Think yourself strong 5. Create resilience in your environment - Toolkit for managers 5 toolkits, 5 ways to raise resilience designed for SME managers to help prevent burnout at work. The content helps spot any warning signs at an early stage and ultimately improve employees’ happiness in the workplace. The toolkits are linked to the self-assessment on identifying reduced resilience of your employees. 5 toolkits are: 1. Circle of Influence 2. Core Quadrants of Ofman 3. GROW Model 4. Progression Feedback 5. Social Styles - E-learning development with gamification elements - Guidelines for workshops - A total of ten workshops were delivered across the partnership, with two workshops taking place in each partner country (Belgium, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK). The main objective of the workshops is to test the SME Tools to Prevent Burnout platform (IO5) with managers and employees working in SMEs. The platform has been designed for two target groups: managers and employees. The workshops enabled the partnership to test various aspects of the platform including the quality of platform content and how user-friendly it is. Guidelines are attached to this report together with the final report. The partnership grew from relationship established over several years with an emphasis arising from LdV Transfer of innovation.The project proposed a well-balanced partnership structure designed with full consideration of the skills and expertise necessary for the execution of the project. Okrganizations were directly involved in the development of the project: CTCP from Portugal, Obelisk from Belgium, Materahub from Italy, Inova from UK and Globalnet fro Poland. CTCP is a public training institution that operates in the area of footwear industry in Portugal. Obelisk is a company providing multiple trainings and consultancy, it's a customer-orientation, flexible, professional and mature organization with 16 years of expertise in the area of learning and development. INOVA Consultancy is a private for profit SME specialised in providing consultancy services and project work in the field of gender diversity and equality. Materahub IT is an aggregator of people and business, a “space” where they meet, encourage the creation of new job opportunities through a process of mentoring, training and business development. Globalnet specializes in e-learning solutions and cooperates with people from various vocations. It owns the e-learning platform that is adjusted to different training courses. These project partners are responsible for the creation of toolkits and e-learning content. Due to its geographical spread the project contains high cultural diversity and varied national contexts. In addition, the project is composed of partners with large networks of contacts and expertise in creating connections among organizations. Thus, the project impact and reach will go beyond the partner countries. Generally the project and its results will have a possitive impact on many areas. Not directly the project will cause the decrease of stress level and the general working conditions should, therefore, improve - less stress and tools to prevent burnout and raising resilience and at the same time: - raised resilience will influece the professional activity of employees - less people suffering from stress and equipped with tools to fight burnout and raise their resilience - self - assessment tools to assess participants resilience and help them raise it - less people suffering from stress-related conditions caused by work (cardiovascular, musculoskeletal disease, immunological problems) - better health of staff, wellbeing, improved satisfaction with life, possitive emotions -positive effect on health and resilience, -an increased mobility of people involved in the project, - an interest in the project of the employees organizations, companies, - interest in the project outcomes of the institutions not involved in partnership, -an increase of the offer of educational institutions, - development of new initiatives between partners from European countries, - increase in interest in lifelong learning