Engaged and Burnt Out? (2 mins)
Burn Out is Real
If your business is scoring high in employee engagement surveys it doesn’t mean your teams won’t burn out.
In fact, your most highly engaged employees are often the ones at greatest risk of burning out.
Engagement is different to optimal well-being. Addressing both and measuring both is important.
If you are noticing that your employees are not engaging in well-being offerings in your business it’s time to reassess.
Make sure you know who is at risk of burning out.
Understand new ways to generate support and engagement in well-being activity. It’s not just a case of running more and more programs, and adding to the long list of perks.
Offering more pre-paid access to breathing and meditation apps is not the solution.
Focusing on self-care is also not the sole solution, aspects need to be offered and encouraged, however if that’s all you focus on then you are missing a large piece in your well-being strategy. This HBR article shares more “Stop Framing Wellness Programs Around Self-Care.”
Begin by understanding how your employees feel, and we mean really feel. This is where you need expert support to help you decipher emotions in the organization and what the new desire is.
Secondly you also need to understand what degree of well-being each employee has, helping them to decide what level of well-being they want too is part of the process.
Once you have this insight you can start reassessing what your culture is generating. If you’re offering multiple industry expected perks that might not be what employees want or need. Meanwhile as a business you are spending cash needlessly on services that employees don’t want or need.
This HBR article offers more insights into some of the approaches you can consider too - “How to Get Employees to (Actually) Participate in Well-Being Programs.”
Let us know your thoughts. Are your responsible for developing the revised well-being strategy and struggling to identify what it should like? Are you seeing employees disengage from well-being programs? Leave a comment below.
Be well, live intentionally
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