It’s time to reposition corporate wellbeing programmes to include ongoing sustainable strategies for happiness and success

It’s become fashionable to talk about wellbeing from the boardroom to management teams, yet with the focus on cost cutting, companies must take care that wellbeing does not become a tick box exercise.

Responding to a new era

 As we reinvent our world of work, the ability to be agile and adapt to new ways of working and avoid triggering the stress response will be vital. My prediction is that the best companies to emerge during this time will be those that build capability in their leaders and people to genuinely care about individuals and their individual success. The pandemic has caused some people to think deeply about their life and what is important to them. For others, keeping up that same level of focus and intensity feels a lot more challenging and there are also those whose inability to predict and envision the future has triggered their brain into threat mode. 

There has never been a better time to position wellbeing and happiness as integral to personal fulfilment and happiness which we have known for decades brings business and personal success. However, we are still missing the opportunity to view wellbeing and happiness as vital for everyone’s fulfilment and success in work and life. 

Many leaders are not equipped with the skills and capability to lead and motivate their people and teams for wellbeing in a challenging and uncertain environment.

Leaders may lack the ability and techniques to have more meaningful conversations and an understanding of, and strategies and tools for, managing human emotions, mindsets, motivation and behaviours to achieve optimal wellbeing.  More remote working means we need to be even better at this. This means your people are more at risk from poor psychological health which will reduce their motivation and performance putting businesses and organisations at an even greater risk.

I have put together a series of webinars that do not focus on the traditional mental health topics such as anxiety and stress but instead focus leaders and their teams on topics that share what successful and happy people do and help them understand and dig deeper into the human dimension of happiness, success and performance. At the heart is the principle of aligning personal and business purpose and ambitions, developing agility, cognitively and emotionally, managing your perspective and mindset for positive wellbeing and embracing strong connection and relationships between people.

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