How Do You Feel About Your Employees Health?
Feelings traditionally don’t have much place in the business world and as a business owner you may not be all that interested in the moment to moment health of your employees as long as they get the job done. However, you wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t suspect that their health and the way they feel has a significant impact on their attention to detail, focus, morale and desire and motivation to work for you. Below are a series of questions designed to bring awareness to the possibilities for your work environment and the health and wellbeing of your people.
Would you like your employees to:
- Have more energy and greater resistance to fatigue?
Yes / No - Cope better with stress?
Yes / No - Have a better self-image and greater confidence to participate in life?
Yes / No - Experience less anxiety and depression?
Yes / No - Be able to relax better and feel less tense?
Yes / No - Fall asleep more easily and sleep better?
Yes / No - Be able to manage their weight more easily?
Yes / No - Reduce their risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoperosis and arthritis?
Yes / No - Have more mental clarity and wellbeing?
Yes / No - Have greater efficiency and focus on the job?
Yes / No - Enjoy their day to day activities and feel appreciated?
Yes / No - Actually want to come to work for you every day?
Yes / No
I heard a speaker last week mention the two aspects of business – the soft and the hard. The soft being the people and feelings aspect of business and the hard being everything else. Most business owners struggle a bit with the soft stuff – it comes more naturally to some than to others. However, if you’re going to work with people, there’s simply no way of avoiding the squishy bits.
In honour of this, my two favourite soft and mushy laws of success are:
- Income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them
and - Influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first
