April is Stress Awareness Month and April 7 is World Health Day.
With these as a backdrop, what is your company doing to improve employee health?
In your company, the impact of the Big 5 (insomnia, stress, anxiety, physical pain and mental acuity) on your employees drain your company of roughly 5% of your GDP, every year. In the US, this translates to roughly $10,000/employee/yr.
For your company, run the math on 5% of your sales. That’s your hit…..every year….from your employees suffering from the Big 5. That’s a big bite out of your profits every year.
So, how do you address it?
If you ask your employees to raise their hands if they have stress or mental acuity problems, how many do you think will raise their hands? Probably none, as nobody wants to be labeled as a weak, or ‘problem’ employee.
But what if you ask your employees to raise their hands if they want to win next month’s sales contest? For this, you would probably get a big response.
Make it about performance enhancement, not about fixing a problem. Help them become a more valuable employee, not an outcast.
Find an organization like Edenark Group‘s A Better World Starts With Me and Gym For The Brain, which will help you address the Big 5, but via performance enhancement, happiness and health.
Employee response will be higher, your employees will be happier and healthier, and your financial performance will go up.