If your staff are not 100% engaged, 100% effective, 100% well, 100% of the time, then it’s costing you more than money! It’s also costing you in terms of attraction and retention of good staff, reputation with customers and workforce indicators like WorkCover claims and premiums increase significantly. It’s also more likely that staff absenteeism is through the roof!
For example, even at 90% employee engagement with say one million dollars worth of salaries, that 10% disengagement is costing you $100,000 in lost productivty and negative impacts on culture and reputation.
The impact on leadership and owners is signifciant too. Many become genuinely frustrated because they’ve run out of options to enage with and grow their teams and at times question their own career!
WorkCover claims, increase your WorkCover premium
People on sick leave either need to be replaced or systems and service productivity goes down the toilet. Every year in Australia so many billions are lost due to unexplained leave. In Australia alone, 9 people take their life every day because they feel they have no other option to cope with the noise in their head. Safer Happier can help you be a part of the solution!
Do you think someone at work cares about you as a person?
The Gallop Q12 highlights two questions that significantly impact the levels of engagement and the culture that you create at work. For first question to consider – ‘Do you think someone at work cares you as a person?’. We know that when people feel genuinely connected it creates a protective factor for when they are under significant stress. This level of connection can be built when organisations invest specifically in their people at a really deep personal level by opening up conversations and opportunities to connect and not keeping them at an arm's length. The Safer Happier system assists people to provide the bridge to these conversations and demonstrates a genuine concern for people, on an individual level, to help them through what can be demanding and challenging times. These connections with others assist people during the worst of times, when they feel like there’s nowhere left to turn, and at times can be life-saving. The second question to consider from the Gallup Q12 - ‘Is there someone at work that cares about my development?’ By providing these fortnightly conversation starters and the monthly educational videos, there is a clear message to the people in your team that you actually do care about their development and have worked out a way to make it easy for them to participate in ongoing education that will equip them with skills and strategies that are useful at work, and in their private lives outside of work.
INSPIRING leaders create possibility and generate curiosity!
Imagine with less than five minutes of your time you could be delivering helpful information and strategies to your team with less than three clicks on your computer. INSPIRING leaders create possibility and generate curiosity. Once you open up that curiosity, it’s amazing what can be achieved and what a positive difference you could make not just to an individual, but to your teams. How nice is it when the details have been taken care of, when you can randomly bump into your team members and where possible, explore conversations about creating a Safer Happier workplace. Imagine the possibilities!
The role of the workplace has changed in the last 30 years
The Safer Happier cofounders have over 70 years combined experience in supporting individuals and teams to grow their awareness and skills, and in the practical application of those skills in their life, in any context. Clearly, the role of the workplace has changed in the last 30 years. Researchers Lafferty and Cook highlight that there is a critical requirement for organisations to focus on the task and the relationship to create safer, productive, profitable and happier workplaces. Sam Harris, neuroscientist, along with many others, has clearly demonstrated through research, that the concept of happiness relates directly to a person’s capacity to find perspective in what they are experiencing. Without the knowledge and strategies of how to do that, then genuine happiness will be very challenging to experience. The health benefits play a significant role in maintaining an individual’s focus on continuing their own Safer Happier journey. Our work has been tested on individuals, teams and families and our ongoing research into deepening our understanding, continues to expand what we are able to offer through this program.
