People Insights Exchange - Stress Awareness at Work

Join us in person at People Insights Exchange for real talk and fresh ideas on understanding your team better! Welcome to the People Insights Exchange! A new monthly workshop in Bingham for people who manage people. Ninety minutes. One accredited keynote, one hands-on workshop, and a room of local professionals worth knowing. First Friday of every month at Bingham Arena. NOVEMBER'S SESSION: STRESS AWARENESS AT WORK To coincide with International Stress Awareness Week, this practical 90-minute workplace learning session explores the conditions at work that can create or intensify pressure. People Insights Exchange will be looking at what are we asking people to cope with? We’ll explore how workload, control, support, workplace relationships, role clarity and organisational change can contribute to work-related stress, using the HSE Management Standards as a practical framework. You’ll put the ideas into practice in our Stress Detective Workshop, working through a realistic workplace scenario to identify what’s creating pressure, what questions you would ask and what you could actually change. WHAT YOU'LL LEAVE WITH You’ll leave with practical tools and ideas you can take straight back into work, including: • A practical way to identify where stress is entering the work • The six HSE work-related stress risk areas translated into questions you can actually use • A 10-Minute Stress Risk Check for your own team or workplace • Better questions for conversations • Practical ideas for changing the work and environment • A take-away Stress at Work Toolkit • The option to purchase a formal CPD certificate WHO IT'S FOR HR leads, heads of function, L&D professionals, line managers and business owners. Anyone responsible for how people are treated at work, and anyone who's currently guessing. The cost of getting this wrong turns up later as grievances, sickness absence, tribunal risk and good people quietly leaving. Ninety minutes now is cheaper than any of them. HOW THE SESSION RUNS 10:30 Arrival, find a table 10:40 Agenda and an energiser activity you can use back at work the same afternoon 10:50 Keynote: When Coping Becomes the Job (accredited CPD) led by Beth Thomas 11:20 Workshop: The Stress Detective Workshop led by Georgia Hodkinson 11:45 Key takeaways and a soft networking close 12:00 Finish, refreshments available Seating is at round tables. You'll be working with the people around you rather than sitting in rows, and our team is in the room throughout to make sure everyone has a good experience. YOUR HOSTS People Insights Exchange is run by Beth Thomas and Georgia Hodkinson. Beth is a neurodiversity specialist, formally accredited with the CPD Standards Office as a CPD trainer and speaker, a Certified ADHD Life Coach and a professional keynote speaker. She has worked in this space since 2019, is a Professional Member of the PSA UK & Ireland and an ambassador for ADHD UK. Georgia is an Organisational Psychologist specialising in fatigue and human factors. She helps organisations with shift workers identify and reduce the conditions that contribute to incidents and absence. She holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Occupational Psychology and is working towards Chartered status with the BPS. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR TICKET - Attendance at the full 90-minute session - A drinks voucher for the venue cafe - A gift bag - Exclusive rates and offers from our sponsoring local businesses - Your Bingham Business Bingo card BINGHAM BUSINESS BINGO Every attendee gets a card listing that month's sponsor offers. Use an offer, collect a stamp. Complete your card and you're entered into our quarterly prize draw for a training bundle worth over £3,000. Cards refresh monthly, so the offers change. CPD CERTIFICATES The 30-minute keynote is accredited through the CPD Standards Office. If you'd like a formal digital certificate for your record, follow the instructions in your ticket confirmation. This covers the administration of issuing and recording it. If you don't need one, you don't pay for one. ACCESSIBILITY Neuroinclusion and accessibility are how we build these sessions, not something we bolt on afterwards. As standard, there will be: - Step-free access, with accessible exits at the front and rear of the hall - Induction hearing loop in the hall - Subtitles on screens - Colour-coded lanyards so you can signal whether you're up for chatting or would rather focus on the learning - Round-table seating rather than rows, with room to move around the space - Free parking on site, with accessible bays nearest the entrance If you have a barrier to standard evacuation, or anything else we should know to keep you safe and comfortable, tell us at checkout and we'll agree a plan with you before the day. PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILMING This session will be professionally photographed and filmed. Filming focuses on the presenters and the stage, not on attendees doing workshop activity, and footage will be used for future learning resources and to promote the event. If you'd rather not appear, tick the box at checkout. We'll seat you out of shot and blur or cut anything you appear in. WHERE Jubilee Hall, Bingham Arena, Bingham, Nottinghamshire WHEN Friday 2 October 2026, 10:30am to 12:00pm. Then the first Friday of every month after that. We're keeping the first few sessions deliberately small, so book early.