Developing a positive workplace culture that supports wellbeing will help your teams to achieve their goals and deliver on the corporate strategy, while minimising sickness and improving performance, productivity and retention.
As comms pros, we can influence all of this through strategy and structure, context and top quality communication that can help employees feel energised, inspired, supported, connected and cared for.
With so many organisations reshaping their ways of working, we have a huge opportunity to make a real difference by applying, sharing and embedding principles and processes that lead to happy people and joyful teams, with colleagues who know the organisation has their back when it comes to wellbeing.
From adapting leadership language to shifting established behaviours, our latest infographic explores many ways that we can have a powerful impact on workplace wellbeing, keeping it firmly at the top of the agenda for everyone.
If you could grant colleagues three wishes, what would they be?
Endless contentment and job satisfaction? Happiness? Health? Wealth?
Sadly as comms pros we aren’t wish-granting genies.
Happily, we do have the smarts to inform, influence and educate.
Consider these ways we can have a powerful impact on workplace wellbeing…
Form a holistic framework
Make it easy for employees to identify and access the support and resources available by creating a helpful framework based on a robust strategy to enable a healthier and more inclusive culture.
Build trust at the top
While we can’t always provide certainty, we can help reduce anxiety by maintaining a regular drumbeat of communication from business leaders and other trusted sources.
Raise resilience levels
Upskilling employees through mental and emotional resilience programmes can help employees to manage uncertainty and better deal with change.
Share empowering stories
As culture shapers, we can help ease uncomfortable issues and enhance morale by empowering employees to share their experiences in a clear and compelling way.
Slowly shift behaviours
Small incremental changes in the way we take care of ourselves can end up having a big impact on our mental health. Share frequent prompts and nudges to keep good habits top of mind.
Reinforce positive boundaries
Since the pandemic, people have been reviewing priorities and disengaging from work through quiet quitting. Support the setting of clear work life balance boundaries to help counteract this.
Encourage compassionate conversations
Normalising conversations about money worries and coaching on kindness across all levels of the organisation can significantly improve the overall employee experience.
Acknowledge the impact of work
Advice about taking care of ourselves can help with some of the issues people face, but workplace challenges like excessive pressures and demands should be called out and addressed by leaders with the support of comms.
Employee wellbeing challenges are rising to the top of the business agenda.
Be part of the solution.
Fuel positive conversations, share powerful stories and enable proactive growth to help those workplace wellbeing wishes come true.
