When it comes down to workplace wellbeing, it’s not the size of your business that matters, but the approach you take to managing your employee’s wellbeing. When things go wrong in a small company, the problems are magnified, with one-third of SME employees experiencing a mental health problem during their working life.
Being a good leader to your team means being able to recognise stress, mental health, and react appropriately to stressful situations. In this guide, we’ll discuss the benefits of workplace wellbeing.
Wellbeing In The Workplace
The UK is facing a productivity crisis. While unemployment is at an all-time low, there’s a high proportion of people working in the UK who are not firing on all cylinders. For small businesses, you need your employees working to the best of their ability at all times, while protecting them from burnout and stress-related illnesses.
A workplace that doesn’t provide good working conditions for its staff is doomed to fail. In 2017/18 stress, depression or anxiety issues amounted to 57% of all lost working days. That doesn’t even begin to cover higher than average turnover rates and costly court cases from unfair dismissal cases. That’s just the negatives. It doesn’t have to be like that.
According to research from the University of Warwick, it turns out that a happy worker is a productive worker. Happier workers use their time better and more effectively without sacrificing quality. Now you don’t need to trial perk-enhancement programs or be a big name like Google to offer a little added happiness boost to your staff. Here are a few pointers in the right direction.
An Effective Workplace
A happy workplace is a better workplace, to help spur your staff into brighter pastures you could try incorporating some of the following measures.
Offer time to volunteer
When you help people, it makes you feel better. There’s a universal feeling to being one of many doing their bit for others. Encourage your staff to partake in volunteering with a “just giving” day in your company policy.
Agile working days
Some employees feel more like numbers than valued employees. The best way to win them over is by being flexible to their human needs. While the flexible working regulations allow employees to make adjustments over their working schedule, agile working will enable employees to choose the when and where they work.
This approach is relatively new but has been shown to effectively reduce stress and lost working hours as a result of a more cohesive working system.
Management support training
Perks, gym passes and coupons are great, though they have one glaring disadvantage. They don’t solve the divide between employees and management. To lead a great team, you need the right skills to improve their wellbeing.
The proper training will do all that and more.
Workplace Wellbeing: How To Lead Your Team
Our courses are suited for leaders, management and HR responsible for dealing with challenging situations in the workplace. The course structure is timely and efficient, only taking a day to teach all the relevant material.
Over the course of the day, you’ll learn the following ways to improve workplace wellbeing:
Supporting others and yourself
You’ll first learn about the C.A.L.M.E.R framework, which will help with reacting to any situation appropriately, especially when faced with powerful emotions and ambiguous loss (where an employee is feeling loss without closure or understanding). You’ll be prepared to tackle this and more.
Coping with stress
Stress shouldn’t be matter-of-fact in today’s culture, but often, people get caught and trapped in feelings of unsurmountable pressure without having someone to take that weight off. You’ll learn how to react, manage and deal with stress to better both yourself and your employees.
Mental health
Mental health is more talked about now than it ever was before. While this is nothing but a good thing, certain misconceptions and stereotype still exist. While this topic may first appear a bit tough, our expert trainers will answer any questions and support your learning. Find out about the various mental health issues that inhabit the workspace and how best to help someone feeling distressed.
Leading a resilient team
Using all the tools and frameworks learnt from the previous subjects, you will bunch all that information together and discover what makes a resilient person and team. Learn how to deal with challenges successfully and build the dream team you’ve always pictured.
A little training can do wonders, and our nationwide service is the answer to better workplace wellbeing. Become an industry leader by learning how to build a robust and resilient team.
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