7 COMPELLING REASONS WHY INVESTING IN YOUR EMPLOYEE WELLBEING LEADS TO IMPROVED BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

Imagine you walk in a company you always wanted to work for and the hiring manager says, “Many of the team members you were meant to work with on a project you must deliver today are sick, so we need you to up your game and do the five people’s job at the standards of excellence required” and if you fail, there will be consequences.’ It’s laughable! 

Yet, after 20 years of successfully delivering multi million pound technology programs and mentoring, coaching and training thousands of senior executives from many parts of the world I notice that many still chose a reactive rather than a proactive approach to issues that that if not tended, they lead to increased stress, employee burnout and increased absenteeism.

Survey conducted in 2015 by the Telegraph on Britain’s Healthiest Company shows that the average annual cost of absence and presenteeism due to ill health is around 8% of a company’s wage bill. Another survey done by CIPD in 2009 shows the average cost of filling an employee vacancy (recruitment, selection, temporary cover, redundancy payments, training and induction) is ￡6,125. That is a lot of wastage that companies could do without.

Let’s be frank here, the 21st century conscious workforce no longer will sacrifice their health for money, they love to work in an organisation that is mindful of many aspects of the way they feel about their daily lives, jobs, and relationships. 

Reason being, your employees feelings of wellbeing at work are influenced by day to day experiences with customers, colleagues and management, how purposeful you feel and the work that you do. 

Employers can have a major influence on an individual sense of wellbeing, which can have a multitude of benefits for the organisation itself. So here are seven compelling reasons why investing in your employee wellbeing training, mentoring and coaching is the most cost-effective solution to your company’s increased absenteeism, low productivity and poor performance. 

1. The healthier your employees are, the more control they have over their job. They know how to clarity of what is expected of them, their team members and their customers.
2. The better your employees feel, the better they perform. Training your employees on a regular basis makes them feel good about themselves, the jobs they work and develop a positive belief about their workplace that goes far beyond the company grounds.  
3. In every employee there is a rebellious inner child that does not want to listen. Exposing your employees to an expert whose teachings can improve their relationship with their inner child will reap many benefits. They will feel more mentally and emotionally stable and it will satisfy their inner hunger for growth, variety and safety. 
4. Employees who are present and feel more grounded do listen better. The more aware your employees are, the more productive they can become providing their sense of personal purpose is in alignment with the company’s one.  
5. It improves your company culture. When employee wellbeing programs and training are in place, it helps promote a wider value to others. It makes employees feel safe and it creates a pleasant working environment where personal performance starts to increase. 
6. It creates a supportive supervision and management structures. This gives employees a sense of job security, clear career prospects and promotes a good work/life balance. It helps reduce stress, build resilience and improve performance through teaching employee’s mindfulness techniques. 
7. It maximises your employee’s potential. We know that most successful sports people have a coach, some even have more than one coach. Great Mentors and Coaches know how to turn talent into realised potential at every stage of the leader’s journey. Having mentors, trainers and coaches can help your company to hone your employee skills, sharpen their thinking so they can achieve objectives and raise their performance bar to the next level and keep them on track.

In order to sustain employee wellbeing, performance, profits and productivity, senior management teams need to know how to deal with ambiguity, conflict, unpredicted human behaviour, and uncertainty as well as learn new ways to empower their employees to lead the way. 

I travel the world teaching individuals and organisations how to use TJSeMethod: ALARM?, a twenty-five-step conscious engineering method, to successfully design and implement employee wellbeing & mental-health programs, align employee with company values, dissolve conflicts, improve communication and sales skills, achieve more success and accelerate company’s overall productivity, performance and their bottom line-shareholder profits. 

One thing is consistent, the more I teach people how to remain stable and calm under pressure and how to handle their own and others’ emotions, the more they learn to navigate the pressures not just for themselves but the whole team. Investing in teaching this one of a kind method to your employees is a no-brainer because the rewards are so high. 

To your greatness, success and potential,

Tony J. Selimi

PS – If you are a business owner, a leader in a big, medium or small organisation and you are able to make or sponsor choices about investment in employee wellbeing training, leadership development, mentoring and coaching, here are four ways I can support the overall effectiveness of your business:

#1 ... Inspire your employees with giving them the gift of learning, order copies of my five-times #1 Amazon bestselling books A Path to Wisdom and #Loneliness 

#2 ... One of the biggest challenges for many employees is how to get things done with colleagues, partners and suppliers over whom you have no direct authority. Get them to enrol in my Mindfulness for higher Productivity, Performance and Profitable Life Udemy Course! 

#3 ... Make the fastest progress by hiring me to work with you on a one-on-one basis or book a full day to work with you on your business. Just leave a comment on this post, send an email to my PA [email protected] and put "Private One on One Consultation" in the subject line, tell her a little about you or your business, where you and your team are now and what you'd like to work on together, and she'll get you the necessary payment and booking details.

#4 ... Hire me to speak at your next company or industry event. Click HERE to download my “speaker sheet" and fill in the form with your event info, and once my PA hears from you, she’ll send you back contract and fee info.