Restoring Optimism in the Great Resignation Era

The last couple of years have been turbulent with uncertainty presided by changes to restrictions, multiple lockdowns and many others that had an impact on people's lives and behaviors.

Maintaining a level of stability is essential. Ensuring variables such as our work environment and everyday routine can be controlled and remain as steady as possible. Job security has become even more important since the start of the pandemic. However, to feel secure, remote workers need to feel heard and valued.

In The Great Resignation Era, companies have a greater risk of turnover. According to many HR and business leaders, most employees handing in their notice are those working remotely. Workers are reassessing their priorities and values due to their desire to work for a company that gives them a sense of purpose. This also includes knowing that their wellbeing is being looked after.

For this reason, leadership on every level should be working towards maintaining motivation and optimism in their teams. Businesses should focus on listening to what they need to succeed and taking action.

Making sure your company has a Wellness Program is a great start. By creating an action plan based on your team’s feedback, your company can implement some good practices to boost optimism in the work team.

Here are some easy steps you could follow:

1. Start with yourself: you must start setting an example and opening this door in order to sow and transmit this dose of positivism to the people around you. Connect yourself with positive thoughts that stimulate the culture of optimism by promoting positive feedback.
2. Assess the team: evaluate and measure the level of optimism coefficient of your company with a certain degree of regularity. You can do this through a diagnosis that allows you to know the current mental and emotional well-being states and needs of your team.
3. Create group spaces to reactivate optimism: the best incentive you can give your team to recognize their great efforts is a group space where they can develop and reactivate their optimistic mindset. It will help them regain motivation and reconnect with the team spirit through trusting relationships.
4. Manage a mental and emotional wellness plan: we recommend you to rely on experts to design a prevention, promotion and intervention program tailored to your company to assist and guide this type of process from an appreciative and constructive approach.

Managing Virtual Teams has a network of expert psychologists that will support you in the great adventure of reactivating optimism and taking care of your team’s mental and emotional well-being through strategies and spaces, making optimism the axis of the emotional intelligence of your team and your company. Find out more about it here.