Outcomes

LEADCOR project aimed to reduce occupational stress through leadership development in the prison context. The project aimed to enhance the leadership competences of staff, aiming to promote a safe and prejudice-free learning environment for these diverse and vulnerable group of learners. Furthermore, it sought to contribute to mitigate tensions among management and staff, between staff, among staff and their families, and between staff and inmates (through stress reduction). This may also enabled considerable savings in personnel budgets by reducing early retirements and absenteeism, while improving the quality of work with inmates and, ultimately, enhancing opportunities for rehabilitation.
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The following short-term and medium impacts were expected:

• to have a significant impact on transversal skills development for prison staff, especially those leadership and management competencies that can positively impact the reduction of stress;
• to have a positive and long-lasting impact on the mitigation of tension between prison key stakeholders, since it is expected that the conflicts that often occur in these closed environments will also be reduced;
• to increase the preparedness of prison staff to work in teams and different prison contexts and environments;
• to increase the prison staff awareness on the importance of leadership and negative impacts of occupational stress in the prisons’ daily life.
• to promote the well-being and mental health of prison staff, since this will enable considerable savings in personnel budgets by reducing early retirements and absenteeism, while improving the quality of work with inmates and, ultimately, enhancing opportunities for rehabilitation.