Highly complex contexts such as those we have faced in the last 12 months pose an additional challenge for managers, team leaders, and decision makers in organizations.
April 21, 2021
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Highly complex contexts such as those we have faced over the past 12 months pose an additional challenge for managers, team leaders, and decision makers in organizations: how to convey resilience and balance to their teams to adapt – the most fast and efficient- to a new environment?
Undoubtedly, the first is to recognize the need for adaptation and not to ignore basic elements of organizations: we need a learning curve, highlight adaptability through new schemes such as flexible work, redefine the benefits and -not less important – determination to deal with uncertainty.
We can say that the impact has been different if we see it by countries, communities, industrial activities or economic sectors, we can say that it has been uniform in the mood of people, and one of the signs we have seen was the study we conducted on Gympass, which shows that 35% of the total use of our applications associated with the platform come from users who accessed the apps of emotional health.
It is an important signal for those responsible for managing talent within companies: the concept of well-being is expanding and including an emotional dimension that is key in terms of quality of life and health of employees.
I share with you 4 wellness lessons that leaders learned throughout 2020 to take a healthy business approach.
Focus on humanized leadership: Leaders understand that achieving goals and achieving the company’s goals is thanks to commitment, motivation, creativity, harmony between work and personal, communication, among other factors, that go much further. of a working day at a set time. The leader who understands this will not only have effective work teams – he will be able to create highly efficient work environments that are key to the innovation and growth of organizations.
Have a preventative approach on the Run out of: One of the adjustments observed is that remote employees work 1.4 days more per month than their colleagues who are in the offices, according to one study: resulting in more than three additional weeks of work a year. Organizations realized the importance of preventing and managing to prevent the to burn of their teams, and we began to observe that several companies set schedules to support disconnection, as well as offer digital tools to adopt new wellness routines with remote exercise, which can be from 5 minutes of meditation, healthy recipes, online functional classes or other options that each collaborator can choose according to what suits him best. This highlights the importance of employing health programs based on the benefits to workers and companies, investing in a better and healthier future.
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It promotes the balance between personal and work life: According to data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Mexico ranks second on the worst balance between work and personal life, coupled with the drastic change in routine, there there is an increasing interest in establishing clear boundaries between work and personal life, so that new regulations have even been created, such as Name 035, which allows the identification and analysis of psychosocial risk factors and prevention measures for promote a supportive organizational environment; in addition to the recent passage of the Labor Law reform to regulate the home office and ensure that employees have the necessary conditions to perform it from home.
Social distance is not synonymous with isolation: According to the article on “The work and the epidemic of loneliness “, Published in Harvard Business Review, The feeling of loneliness and isolation is the main impediment that collaborators face to carry out their work activities, as it is considered a loss of social interaction, which can usually detonate collaboration or exchange of ideas or points of view. That’s why leaders are also turning to wellness programs and physical activity challenges – at a distance – to establish a moment of remote social connection, support a self-care space, and generate dynamics for greater integration.
We were already facing a new paradigm of work, where the importance of emotional pay was beginning to be emphasized, fostering a sense of belonging and generating healthy work climates. During 2020 this trend accelerated and now we see companies increasingly interested in joining this innovation in the workplace, which are enhancing their productivity, creativity and well-being.