Workplace wellbeing: Alternative rules of engagement

  • Workplace health initiatives can actually become viable business solutions
  • Wellbeing initiatives can help staff to give the job their full attention while they are at work
  • Employers who enable staff to optimise their health and wellbeing are delivering a great incentive that helps to retain good people and attract top talent
When you’ve exhausted traditional methods of engaging staff, and employees have become immune to all the latest exciting initiatives you’ve introduced to help raise performance, how can you inject enthusiasm and energy into your workforce and create an environment where staff are ready, willing and able to focus fully on the tasks at hand? 
 
You may feel that it’s not the responsibility of the employer to look after the health of the workforce but in a world where cutting absence and improving engagement are top priorities, perhaps it’s time to explore how healthy initiatives can actually become viable business solutions. 
 
Effective wellbeing solutions can encourage an inspiring atmosphere of health and high performance and equip staff with new strategies and tools that enable them to perform to the best of their abilities. So how can wellbeing best help business achieve the ultimate dream of healthy, positive, motivated, engaged staff in every department?

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Editor's Welcome

 

Hello! And welcome back as we enter 2012, with a busy year ahead of us all. With talk of double-dip recessions, a possible partial or even full break-up of the Eurozone and unemployment rates set to hit nearly 9%, topics such as organisational streamlining, staff resilience and talent management are likely to be on many an HR professional's lips over the next 12 months.
 
But to lighten the gloom here in the UK, we also have the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and its attendant public holidays to look forward to at the start of June. Followed by two weeks of Olympic Games from 27 July to 12 August and the Paralympics from 29 August to 9 September, each generating their own excitement, but also issues to work through for hard-pressed HR departments trying to sort out the multifarious staffing issues in advance.
 
So with an interesting but challenging year to come, HRZone promises to be with you, supporting you all the way and providing our usual insightful blend of news, analysis, community blogs and expert comment to help you sort the wheat from the chaff. As ever, we love to hear from you too so feel free to either post your words of wisdom to our blog section yourself or, in the case of longer, more in-depth ‘expert voice’ articles, drop me a line with any ideas to cath.everett@siftmedia.co.uk.....
 
Cath Everett
HRZone Editor 
 
 
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