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Guest blog by Mark Newey, Founder, Headucate.me
Guest blog by Mark Newey, Founder, Headucate.me
Building Societies have evolved to work within communities and to serve local people. As a result, most of them go to great lengths to look after their employees. Now more than ever, this means helping them with their mental wellness.
The problem with the Western approach to mental health is within its reactive nature. Employees often wait until they are really struggling before putting their hands up to ask for help or to seek therapy.
And even when they do ask, the capacity of the NHS is constrained with therapy waiting lists between 6 to 12 months. Whilst many societies offer Employee Assistance Programmes, according to Deloitte, the take up of such schemes is dismal, at between 2 and 4%.1
We already had a mental health crisis before the pandemic, so it is imperative that we now change the conversation on mental health.
Learning about mental wellness can be powerful, proactive and empowering for employees. The objective is to allow us to understand how our minds work, how we create stress, anxiety and depression and how to avoid them in the first place. From there, how to develop an understanding of who we are. Then how to develop true resilience to deal with the insecurities and uncertainties of life and ultimately to thrive.
A mental health education programme should allow employees to develop deep-level self-awareness, genuine self-esteem and a solid sense of identity, as well as a life vision and a life action plan.
The Headucate 5 Steps to Mental Wellness
The Employer Benefits
Whilst the outcome for the employee can be enlightening, the benefit to the employer should not be understated either. Employers can expect to see significant improvements in employee engagement and staff behaviour which ultimately contributes to a more positive workplace culture with all that brings.
Evidence from such programmes show that changes fall into the following three categories:
Study after study shows that even a small investment in employee mental wellness will pay itself back many times over. The Deloitte survey shows that the highest ROI, at 11:1, is for initiatives with the following attributes 1:
Following recent set of webinars delivered to the staff at Saffron Building Society a follow-up survey showed that:
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1 Deloitte: Mental Health and Employers 2020
This webinar will cover a summary of the Employment Rights Bill, with a focus on the proposed changes that will affect Building Societies in particula...
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