Employers face many different challenges in improving employee engagement, performance, and the bottom line. But they are increasingly realizing that stress is the number one factor holding employees back. No longer just a healthcare issue, managing stress has become a top priority for organizations looking to increase productivity, build culture, and improve the bottom line.
Resilience is a predictor of important business outcomes from cost and absence to productivity, return-to-work, and turnover. Unlike traditional workplace wellness programs, Progressive Health’s approach offers an unintimidating transition for employees to ease into resiliency over time. Resilience is a state, not a trait: it is modifiable and can be improved through well-structured interventions. It is the most effective strategy for dealing with stress and it’s resultant workplace cost, and can radically improve employee morale, productivity, and outcomes.
Resilience can be learned. We’ve got the program to teach it, and the numbers to prove it.
The Problem
Stress and other emotional factors are the leading causes of productivity impairment and absenteeism, as well as contributing factors for heart disease, obesity, and insomnia. It is well established that the physical and mental health of employees influence health care costs, disability, workers compensation claims, absenteeism, and work performance. And yet, until recently, employers have done little to focus on the psychological and emotional aspects of health. They train employees to do their jobs safely, accurately, and efficiently and offer optional health improvement programs. Emotional wellbeing has conventionally been limited to those in desperate need and seen as the domain of crisis-based solutions. Actively cultivating resilience in your workforce isn’t just nice-to-have, but a business imperative. Because having a happier, less stressed, more engaged, and focused workforce means higher productivity, lower health costs, and less absenteeism- means better overall financial performance.
What is Resilience?
Resilience is defined as an individual’s ability to properly adapt to stress and adversity, or our struggle with change. Stress and adversity can come in the shape of family or relationship problems, health problems, or workplace and financial stressors, to name a few (1). Individuals demonstrate resilience when they can face difficult experiences and rise above them with ease.
Components are: