Evolving Emotionally Fit Teams
Create a Thriving Post-Pandemic Workplace
How Leaders Can Improve Workplace Wellbeing
85% of global employees are disengaged in work (Gallup, 2018), and the pandemic has caused significant stress and worry among employees, with alarmingly high levels of employee burnout among fully remote workers (Gallup 2020). As leaders now consider how to reconfigure the “new normal” workplace for a highly engaged and productive workplace culture, it requires substantially greater emphasis on employee wellbeing.
It’s an investment in productivity
Employees with high wellbeing are more resilient during widespread or personal tough times, are less likely to have unplanned days out of the office, and have better performance than those with low wellbeing.
Research in the British Psychological Society Journal indicates that emotional resilience training can improve personal resilience and is a useful means of developing mental health and subjective well‐being in employees. They also found that resilience training has a number of wider benefits that include enhanced psychosocial functioning and improved performance.
Emotional resilience training can improve employee performance, psychosocial functioning, mental health and subjective well‐being.
Leaders can make a substantial difference in their employees' performance and lives by bringing emotional resilience training to their teams. Many may not know what to do with their emotions, other than holding them in and hoping that they’ll go away. Meanwhile, their stress increases and their wellbeing and productivity can take a dive.
Astute leaders prioritise emotional resilience for their teams to thrive.
Employees need to know how to process their emotions, that they aren’t alone, and that what they are feeling is a shared experience and a natural part of our humanity. Just like we exercise the body to keep fit, regular emotional fitness exercise supports mental health and well-being. They will appreciate participating in emotional resiliency circles to bring them back to center and their most focussed and productive state of being. The word clouds below show what members of the Career Development Institute felt at the start of a resiliency circle and after practicing the tools:
Before a Resiliency Circle
After the exercise
Community, connection, and compassion evolve team productivity and engagement.
Your team can expect to manage their emotions more effectively, develop self-acceptance, and release stress so that they can return to their most engaged, focused, and productive selves.
Session Aim: To experience and practice using emotional resilience exercises so that teams improve their wellbeing, focus, and productivity regularly.
The learning objectives:
Practice returning to center when emotions are running high
Recognise the function of the emotions that present in the group
Identify and experience the benefits of developing emotional fitness
How it works:
60-minute Resiliency Circles are delivered virtually via Zoom. With two professional facilitators, we host up to 30 people and schedule to optimally provide a break during the workday. We use a proven format for creating safety, building community, and deepening connections.