Driving positive mental health should be the responsibility of every manager in a company, not just the HR department. This includes initiatives like offering additional consultation and managerial support to those who need it and regularly reaching out to employees to boost their morale.
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The pandemic will compel the business world to take a fresh look at how business was done pre- covid and bring required changes not in processes but also in approach. Inability to adapt to new order will certainly wipe out many from the scene. Our lives can change very quickly. The current crisis...
Organizations can drive positive mental wellbeing by treating symptoms and by going after the root cause. Both prove to be equally important. Organizations should use MENTAL strategy to drive positive mental wellbeing.
Companies need to upgrade IT infrastructure adequately to cope with the emerging challenges in the new normal. They will have to share technologies. Work from home will be adopted as a norm by many companies. Post Covid -19, a lot of opportunities will open in the IT industry.
Our usual response to crisis is binary. We usually respond with either fear or acceptance. However this either or lens makes us at worst fragile and at best resilient – both adequate in most situations. The human race seeks more – to feel better, enhance our wellbeing and augment or productivity...
As HR our actions are oriented towards helping employees and are not merely a lip-service exercise. We cannot reassure one side and do something contradictory on the other side which brings trust deficit between employees & management.
The ability to link business performance parameters with personal aspirations and the growth path of the employees on the strength of predictive and prescriptive analytics should help create an environment of trust and transparency that would be welcomed by employees.
We make it worse by our insensitive, ignorant, autobiographical responses.But there is a way to address this, a guide map and that is called – SENSITIVITY that spells Acknowledge, accompany and alleviate.
With the huge void in reaching out to people during this pandemic has created high anxiety in the employees. The new behaviours at work will get affected by this and make people more anxious and ambiguous. In the new normal, leadership will have to deal with this aspect with innovatively.
Emotions will continue to run high for several quarter to come. Workplace positivity was never more important than this. Leaders and HR need to have rapid ways of connecting with people. Whatever needs to be done has to be explained without stress.
