As I’m sure you are aware, employers are now realising that a proactive approach to employee wellbeing is essential. There is an ethical and legal duty to ensure people are safe and not exposed to undue stress that might trigger mental health issues.
But abiding by the law is not enough. There is a global skills shortage, which is being felt particularly keenly in the UK. Employee expectations have grown dramatically in recent years. People expect to be looked after when they are at work and employers that ignore the needs of their employees will lose key talent and be faced with the expensive task of replacing them. It’s just not cost-effective to ignore employee wellbeing.
A survey undertaken by the mental health charity Mind, found that 60% of employees felt more motivated and more likely to recommend their organisation as a good place to work if their employer took action to support mental wellbeing.
The Live Your Best Life at Work programme is designed to teach skills and knowledge to employees on how to proactively foster their own wellbeing. These Solution Focussed workshops and training programmes are tailored to the individual organisation’s needs in order to greatly improve:
- The physical, emotional and behavioral symptoms of stress
- An understanding of what happens in the body and mind when we experience stress
- Stress Coping Strategies
- How to consciously take control and change the body/mind relationship
- How staff can take this further and build confidence, motivation and self-belief for the future
- An understanding of how to recharge at home with advanced NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) techniques, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness exercises.
Learning these skills results in happier, more confident people, capable of living life as their best selves. The programmes give your staff all the tools they need in order to develop the resilience required to handle stress. Once people learn how to use, and see the results of taking conscious control of these processes, their confidence is hugely increased. I have seen this have an incredible impact on performance time and again.
Weekly online workshops are designed to teach each individual staff member how to thrive in their physical, emotional and mental wellbeing while still delivering the high standards of work expected of them. The workshops do not openly focus on stress or mental health, rather on creating wellbeing, as the content is strongly based on Solution Focussed thinking and practices. These sessions give people an understanding as to why negative thinking impacts health and why poor health impacts negative thinking. The objective of each 1 hour group session is to refuel and resource the individual so that over time their confidence, positive attitude and rational thinking are greatly enhanced. The effect this has on reducing coughs and colds, IBS, headaches, blood pressure, anxiety, depression and other stress related conditions is profound.
I provide the staff with regular feedback questionnaires which help them to identify areas they need help with, and if the company wishes, I can also offer further individual support.
You can read my other blogs here which expand on why providing Mental Health Support in the Workplace is critical for any organisation but I have briefly outlined some statistics below:
Mental health problems cost the UK economy at least £117.9 billion annually according to a new report published today by the Mental Health Foundation and London School of Economics and Political Science.
The report, “The economic case for investing in the prevention of mental health conditions in the UK”, makes the case for a prevention-based approach to mental health, which would both improve mental wellbeing while reducing the economic costs of poor mental health.
The cost of mental health problems is equivalent to around 5% of the UK’s GDP.
Almost three-quarters of the cost (72%) is due to the lost productivity of people living with mental health conditions. According to the most recent report across the UK there were 10.3 million recorded instances of mental ill-health over a one-year period, and the third most common cause of disability was depression.
Learning to talk freely and openly about mental health struggles not only improves working relationships and productivity, but it can save lives.
Please do get in touch by emailing georgina@georginasaycetherapies.co.uk to discuss how we can bring our ‘Live Your Best Life’ workshop to your organisation.