🧠 Stress Load Assessment

Anthony Berry Performance and Sustainability Coach · I create a confidential space where senior NHS leaders can stop carrying everything alone and reconnect with the wisdom, clarity, and solutions they already possess.

What is this? A free 5-minute personal stress inventory mapping where your stress is concentrated across four areas.

Who is it for? Senior NHS leaders in clinical and nursing leadership roles.

When do I use it? When you can no longer tell whether you are managing pressure or just absorbing it.

What problem does it prevent? Reaching burnout before you notice the warning signs, because the pressure has become normalised.

Does any of this sound familiar?

You cannot switch off at the end of the working day. You are still processing decisions, conversations, and worries at midnight.

You wake up exhausted before the day has even started.

You feel responsible for everyone else, but you have stopped putting yourself on the priority list.

This free assessment takes 5 minutes. It will show you exactly where your stress is concentrated and which area needs your attention most urgently.

🔒 Your answers stay private. Nothing here is visible to your employer, manager or team. If you choose to view your results, your name, email, role and answers are sent only to Anthony Berry so he can follow up personally, never shared with anyone else. You will be asked to confirm this before your results are sent. Full details in the Privacy Policy.

1 Your Details

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2 Your Stress Level Right Now

Before you begin, take 30 seconds to record how you are feeling today. This becomes your baseline.

1 10 5
Calm and in control Completely overwhelmed
3 What Is Causing You Stress?

List what is currently draining you. For each one, rate how much impact it will have if nothing changes, in 6 months and in 12 months.
Example: A short-staffed rota is not fully in your control. How you protect one boundary within it often is.

Source of Stress Category Impact in 6 months (1-10) Impact in 12 months (1-10)
Your Overall Stress Load
Add your stressors and impact scores above
💡 Example strategies for senior healthcare leaders (click to expand)
Setting boundaries without guilt
Set a hard stop time two evenings per week and put it in your calendar as a meeting. · Ask your deputy to cover handovers on specific days. · Use a prewritten response for out-of-hours messages: "Thank you, I will pick this up tomorrow morning."

Switching off at the end of the day
Create a physical transition ritual (change clothes, walk to the car, listen to one song) that signals the end of the working day. · Write a "brain dump" list before leaving so unfinished tasks are on paper, not in your head.

Sleep and recovery
No phones in the bedroom after 9:30pm. · Replace late-night email checking with 5 minutes of slow breathing. · Keep a notepad by the bed to capture 3am thoughts rather than processing them.

Guilt and identity
Schedule one hour per week that is yours alone, non-negotiable, in the diary. · Reframe leaving on time as modelling healthy leadership for your team.

Delegation and workload
Identify one task per week you are doing that someone else could do at 80% of your standard. Delegate it. · Say no to one non-essential commitment this month.

20% is skills, tools, strategies and actions. 80% is beliefs, habits, identity, self-trust, boundaries and confidence, the roots of lasting change beneath the visible tree. Plans don't make lasting change, people do.

Only 20% of lasting change comes from skills, tools and strategies. The other 80% comes from transforming your mindset, identity and habits.

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