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Strategies To Promote A Healthy Workplace

October 24

Healthy Workplace Month. Promoting Health and Building Resiliency

What Does It Feel Like To Have A Healthy Workplace?

It saddens me, when we still hear stories of how employees feel hopeless and helpless to change negative situations and the stress of it all ends up having a good employee leave.

What It Looks Like To Work In An Unhealthy Workplace

A good friend of mine, who has worked for years in a large company, has just this sort of story.  She had been promoted over the years, rewarded for her achievements and was a solid employee.  In the midst of many changes she was given a new department that needed a lot of help in restructuring.  She worked hard.  She worked many hours of overtime, with little progress and the results were devastating for her health.

What could have been different?  Her supervisors should have seen that the new role was unrealistic for one person to handle.  (She was determined to make this work – she had succeeded before and she was going to do everything she could to make this new department successful.  Complaining wasn’t an option)  They should have noticed the excessive overtime.  (She figured that if she worked harder, took over some of the others duties that eventually it would all work out.)  They should have noticed the impact it was having on her health.  (When a good employee starts to show signs of wearing down, there needs to be a check in.)  They should have worked with her before she felt that she had no choice but to leave.  (She felt that she had failed.)

What Can Make Your Work A Healthy Workplace?

We know that engaged employees help our companies to be more creative, productive and successful. Disengaged or stressed out employees cost our companies in job turnover, disability and lowered productivity.  Yet, some employers still look at employees as being a commodity – that you push them to their limits, burn them out and discard them for the next person standing in line.  It is easier to get new employees than to fix the things that are wrong within the system.

Research shows that wellness programs have a significant return on investment and in times where many companies are struggling to survive, a healthy workplace may mean the difference between succeeding and going under.

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Taking strides to ensure that your teams work in a healthy environment is not only good for the company, it is the right thing to do for your employees and for the community at large. Beverly Beuermann-King Click to tweet

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Beverly’s Hot Tip For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Healthy Workplace Month:

  • Start a conversation. What are the sources of stress within your teams- personally and professionally? If you are not sure – ASK!  What impact is it having? What are the symptoms that you see in your employees and in the company?
  • Benchmark this information. How much is this costing in absenteeism, turnover, lowered productivity, healthcare costs…?
  • Decide what programs would help reduce this impact on the individual and the company? (Not sure – sign up for Beverly’s E-Brief which focuses on Workplace Wellness)
  • Get support. Bring together management and employees to talk about strategies. Start small – go for the biggest bang for your buck.
  • Don’t reinvent the wheel. Use the resources that are available to you. Look for on-line resources (remember the eBrief). Talk to others who have tried similar things before. Bring in someone (like Beverly) to help talk it through.
  • Get involved in all of the programs that your company has to offer. You never know what you will learn or how it could positively impact your life or the life of those around you.

Contact Beverly about hosting a stress management workshop for your teams on how to reduce stress at work. Discover tips to deal with stress and encourage workplace wellness!

If you have some strategies to share – comment on this posting!

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Additional Postings:

Workplace Wellness: Management Practices That Can Lead To A Toxic Workplace

Workplace Wellness: Moving From Health Promotion To A Healthy Organization

Increase Productivity And Reduce Stress With The S-O-S Principle

Your Employees and Burnout

The Psychosocial Risk Factors and Employee Mental Health

Workplace Wellness: Help Your Teams Picture The Future

Do You Know Your Stress Number?

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Written By Beverly Beuermann-King

Building Resiliency Through Stress and Mental Health Strategies.
For over 20 years, Beverly has used her S-O-S Principle™ with teams who want to control their reactions to stress, build resiliency against life’s challenges and live full and flourishing lives. Beverly works with teams and leaders to shift from stressed out to resilient, enabling them to be more engaged, productive and healthy.

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