Understand the stress factors
Is there something that my colleagues are burdened with that I don't mind doing at all? Could work be divided according to what each person finds stressful?
Stress Factors
What is the need? In everyday life, teams are burdened by many factors, such as fragmented work, challenging interactions and unclear division of labour. They also affect different people in different ways. The simulation is suitable for teams that need to discuss stress factors and their impact on joint work.
Why does it work? The simulation helps you to understand your colleagues and how they react to different stress factors. It promotes open discussion, improves psychological safety and helps the team to improve its effectiveness and cooperation. The simulation highlights issues such as time pressure and information flow and helps the team to address these challenges together.
What about in practice? In the simulation's backstory, the team faces an unexpected situation after a development day and has to reorganise their work in a new way. The simulation consists of ten situations in which the team learns to identify and deal with stress factors together while developing their collaboration.
Research background
Psychosocial stress factors are factors relating to the content of work, the organisation of work and the social functioning of the work community that can cause adverse stress for the worker. If miscalculated, poorly managed or under unfavourable conditions, psychosocial stress factors can cause harmful work stress. Stress is often caused by the combined effect of several factors.
We have built the simulation scenarios using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Psychosocial Stress Factors Questionnaire and the World Health Organization (WHO) publication "PRIMA-EF: European guidelines for the management of psychosocial risks".
Objectives
- Create a common understanding of how different people experience workloads
- Highlight individual differences in reacting to stressful situations
- Through a common understanding to improve team performance and create well-being
For whom
- For teams of 4-16 people. The simulation deals with a variety of stressful situations at work, so it is suitable for teams that want to anticipate or better understand the behaviour of members in stressful situations. It is also suitable for temporary teams, project teams and teams working remotely.
- The simulation lasts about 2 hours.
