Sixty per cent of India’s CEOs are suffering from stress-related illness, says Dr Raja Roy Choudhury, Founder & Managing Trustee, 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation.
“Stress occurs when imbalance happens. Some of the major causes of stress at workplace are poor physical condition, work overload, time pressure and not getting recognition and reward at workplace,” he said, while addressing a workshop on Stress Management organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) , Chhattisgarh Chapter.
He stated: ‘laughter is the best stress buster. An organisation must take responsibility to be a happy one and success will follow suit. '
The Workshop was held with an objective to address issues which centered on rapid pace of modern living, feeling increasingly difficult to keep up.
The workshop also addressed the issue that despite the aforesaid negative scenarios, many stressed out employees continue to struggle because they don’t know where to find assistance and are too embarrassed to ask for help and some may even wear it as a badge of honour.
Unfortunately this badge carries significant costs as constant stress is unsustainable and without the power of information, strategies and self-management techniques, often leads to reduced employee morale, production loss, and leaves of absence, it was informed in the workshop.
The Faculty of the Workshop was Dr Raja Roy Choudhury who is also Visiting Professor - SPJIMR, NITIE and Founder & Managing Director, MindCare Counselling Center Pvt ltd.
Present during the Workshop were- K K Sarda, Past Chairman, CII Chhattisgarh State Council & Chairman & Managing Director, Sarda Energy & Minerals ltd; Umesh Agrawal, Past Chairman, CII Chhattisgarh State Council & Managing Director, Real Power (P) ltd ; Dinesh Agrawal, Vice Chairman, CII Chhattisgarh State Council & Executive Director, Godawari Power & Ispat ltd; among various other industrialists of the State.