{"id":652,"date":"2018-01-19T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/quickread-employee-wellness\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:26:59","slug":"quickread-employee-wellness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/quickread-employee-wellness\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickread: Employee Wellness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employee <a href=\"\/happiness-at-work\/\">happiness <\/a>and emotional health are never first on the agenda in a planning meeting, but they should be. The phrase \u2018workplace wellbeing\u2019 umbrellas everything from the physical to mental state of an organisation\u2019s employees, and is set to stay as a focus for 2018 \u2013 initiatives promoting employee wellness are no longer a nice add-in, they\u2019re imperative.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s brilliant that we can say it\u2019s no longer even a trend. Employers are waking up to the onus they have to provide a nurturing and supportive working environment as well as helping employees through physical and mental health issues. It\u2019s human, and it\u2019s right. It also happens to drive effective leadership and boost performance sky-high\u2026 Who would have thought it? According to Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey, in 2016, Britons took 137 million sick days, of which 15.8 million were for a stated mental health issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Words \u2013 spoken or written \u2013 are what connect us to the world, and so speaking about it to people, and writing about this stuff, helps connect us to each other&#8221;<br \/>\nMatt Haig, author<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mental illness still walks in front of a huge shadow. I know, we should be through this by now. 1 in 4 adults in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year, for goodness sake*. We\u2019ve forgotten how to talk about our mental and emotional health. The thing is, maintaining a high level of mental health provides at least three main benefits &#8211; it feels better, it promotes effective and <a href=\"\/the-troubles-of-the-consistent-authentic-leader\/\">authentic <\/a>relationships, and it builds <a href=\"\/why-is-resilience-important\/\">resilience <\/a>(ie the more you invest into your mental health the less likely it is to slip again).<\/p>\n<h3>Happy, resilient people;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>get sick less often<\/li>\n<li>have more energy<\/li>\n<li>are more optimistic<\/li>\n<li>are more motivated<\/li>\n<li>are more creative<\/li>\n<li>learn faster<\/li>\n<li>make better decisions<\/li>\n<li>maintain their resilience<\/li>\n<li>work better with others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The business benefits and bottom line impact is clear to us &#8211; how about you?<\/p>\n<h3>Relationships at work<\/h3>\n<p>According to the World Health Organisation report, Mental health and work: Impact, issues and good practices, the consequences of poor mental health constitute absenteeism, work performance, staff attitude and behaviour and relationships at work. Teamwork is an internal resource that can provide a significant and sustainable competitive advantage. Great teamwork happens when team members <a href=\"\/trust-is-it-just-simple-maths\/\">trust <\/a>each other and <a href=\"\/quickread-steps-to-appreciating-your-opposite-the-difference-a-profile-makes\/\">communicate effectively <\/a>not when they\u2019re feeling tired, <a href=\"\/eustress-or-distress\/\">stressed out <\/a>, undervalued and unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>If individuals aren\u2019t communicating effectively, wires too often get crossed and <a href=\"\/conflict-in-the-workplace-the-cost-of-bad-behaviour\/\">behaviour <\/a>misread. The Colour Works use the <a href=\"\/insights-discovery-personal-profile\/\">Insights Discovery <\/a>system to transform teams and the biggest learn from everything we do is that communication is key. Having received your own Insights Discovery personal profile and knowing your preferred style, (get in touch to find how you can too), consider the table below, which describes the \u20188-types\u2019 \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 day behaviours. How have you been flexing your style to those around you lately?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/8-type-table.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2512\" height=\"1281\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Employee wellbeing has a direct impact on company performance.<\/p>\n<p>Look up from your emails and breathe in the vibe. How are they? How are you? Invest time in upping your own <a href=\"\/growing-socially-aware-leaders-the-third-domain-of-emotional-intelligence\/\">emotional intelligence <\/a>and promote it to others. Make it normal to talk about behaviour, emotion, stress, and not being okay \u2013 we are all human with both a positive and negative scale, embracing both is vital if we want to get the best out of each other.<\/p>\n<p>([1] McManus, S., Meltzer, H., Brugha, T. S., Bebbington, P. E., &amp; Jenkins, R. (2009). Adult psychiatric morbidity in England, 2007: results of a household survey. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.)<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"eustress-or-distress\/\">stress <\/a>, <a href=\"\/growing-socially-aware-leaders-the-third-domain-of-emotional-intelligence\/\">emotional intelligence <\/a>, <a href=\"\/why-is-resilience-important\/\">resilience <\/a>, <a href=\"\/trust-is-it-just-simple-maths\/\">trust <\/a>, <a href=\"\/quickread-9-attributes-of-an-agile-leader\/\">agile leadership <\/a>, <a href=\"\/why-it-doesnt-end-at-discovery\/\">why it doesn&#8217;t end at discovery <\/a>and <a href=\"\/quickread-steps-to-appreciating-your-opposite-the-difference-a-profile-makes\/\">appreciating your opposite <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee happiness and emotional health are never first on the agenda in a planning meeting, but they should be. The phrase \u2018workplace wellbeing\u2019 umbrellas everything from the physical to mental state of an organisation\u2019s employees, and is set to stay as a focus for 2018 \u2013 initiatives promoting employee wellness are no longer a nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":1871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[35],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29421,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/29421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecolourworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}