Employee mental wellness is a huge part of your business. The healthier their mindset, the happier they will be at work. Here are some tips to help build your employee’s mental wellness.
Resources
Make sure your employees know about their access to mental health resources. The more information they have about where they can go to get help, the more supported they will feel.
Build A Healthy Work Environment
Ensure there is trust between you and your employees. Provide clear direction, have an open-door policy to allow for healthy discussion of issues that may arise, and keep your employees informed of different changes to their work or work environment. You can also create time for employees to be active and still have time to complete their work. Encourage breaks for their eyes and backs and stretching.
Encouragement Of Emotional And Physical Activity
The saying “lead by example” applies to this notion. As a leader, your involvement in workplace health challenges and incentive programs is almost as important as the initiatives themselves. These options have the potential to boost employee morale, savings in healthcare, and of course mental and physical wellness overall.
Care
Caring doesn’t just include your sympathy, empathy, or interest in your employee’s lives, it also includes helping the community around you, being a part of community meetings, volunteering, nurturing professional relationships, and hosting family/work activities.
To build mental health wellness in your workplace, work toward building a healthy work environment, communicate resources available for your employees, encourage emotional and physical activity and care about your employees in a way they can feel. You’ll be able to maintain long-standing relationships in your business and more employee productivity overall.
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