Life has stress, and that's a good thing. Without it, personal growth is stunted, corporate energy turns into malaise, and we fail to become our best selves. It is not something to eradicate from our existence, it is something to manage wisely and use to our best advantage. And that's what we address in our stress management coaching programs.

Stress can be paralyzing. It can stop creativity in its tracks; it can cause you to lose your top performers; and it results in millions of lost work days every year. You ignore it at great risk to your own wellbeing and your corporate health. At Sama, we help you understand the nature of stress, how to recognize its origins, and most importantly, to develop powerful tools to deal with it. Our program offers benefits that last a lifetime and help build careers, not cause them to collapse because you don't understand how to deal with it effectively.

As businesses look for ways to minimize the exodus of their best people; as they seek to improve performance at every level; and as they strive to increase job satisfaction and pride of workmanship, more and more companies are learning the importance of stress management to their own corporate health. What do you learn during a stress management coaching program? You learn to:

• Manage stress, not lash out at it
• Identify situations that cause stress and learn techniques to control it
• Turn wasted energy and time spent brooding into productive work
• Recognize the warning signals for stress and face them with competence
• Find a balance that lets you make reasoned decisions, not hasty or reactive ones
• Be healthier as a person and as a company

Study after study illustrate that much of the stress in the workplace is destructive. It impedes fair and honest communication; it diminishes creativity; it misdirects the proper focus for your staff; and at its worst, it is crippling.

Stress exists at every level of your organization, and every employee stands to gain by understanding what it is, where it comes from, how to recognize it, and how to deal with it. We customize our coaching sessions for small groups of senior managers or for large assemblies of people across all levels of your company. We role play; we develop stressful scenarios; we interact with your staff individually and as a group; we demonstrate techniques that will work for you time and time again; and we have fun. The feedback is universally positive. People like the program; they take to heart lessons that stand them in good stead for a lifetime; and they become better, healthier, more enthusiastic employees.