🏢 Reducing Workplace Stress: A Leadership Framework - with Occupational Psychologist Dr Sanjay Popat
This video explores how managers and leaders can play a crucial role in reducing workplace stress and supporting employee well-being. Stress at work is not just an individual issue — it is shaped by organisational demands, available resources, and leadership behaviour.
In this video, Dr Sanjay Popat outlines five key actions leaders can take to address stress effectively. These include conducting audits to identify common sources of stress, reducing unnecessary demands where possible, and increasing resources to buffer stress when demands cannot be lowered. Resources such as social support, clear feedback, and autonomy are highlighted as essential protective factors.
The discussion also focuses on creating a wellbeing-centred workplace culture — one that encourages open communication, active listening, recognition of achievements, and psychological safety. Dr Popat emphasises the importance of training managers to recognise signs of stress, as well as the power of leaders role-modelling healthy behaviours by setting boundaries, taking breaks, and being open about wellbeing challenges.
This video offers practical, evidence-informed guidance for leaders who want to move beyond surface-level wellbeing initiatives and build healthier, more sustainable workplaces.
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