Happy Employees is all what you need

 

Happy Employees is all what you need 

In a world where everyone thinks of their future, from corporations as well as their employees, it is important for companies to think of employees' mental health at the workplace. Employees are experiencing burnout like never before & the changes witnessed during the pandemic on how people deal and make connections with fellow workers, along with resource crunch resulting in increased demands thus making burnout more and more common.

Employees thinking of a secure future & constant changing environment has put more pressure on their mental health. 

Every organization wants to have Happy employees as they are more creative and productive & thus less likely to quit. Being transparent and honest with your employees helps them feel valued and respected. Many other recommended ways would include work life balance, make them part of the big picture, vacations, clear communication, recognition, rewards etc. & so on.

But one of the simple mantras to aid mental strength of any one is to start living in the present and make them realize how to make the most of it today. Living in today takes you off the worries of the future as well as the past, thus the best way of being happy. Meditation can help employees move to that path of living happily. 
Gandhi ji quote can show the way to many which said “I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.”

It's important for companies of today to adopt meditation as part of their regular routine thus enabling more happier employees.

Some of the Key Benefits being offered by Meditation at workplace are:-

• Effective Decision making - Since the common trouble being faced by employees today is stress of the future, meditation offers to relieve stress & boost employees decision making thus improving focus & concentration on today.
• Increase attention span - Major challenge in today's corporate life is the attention span or retaining power of employees. A regular in house meditation practice can help in increasing the memory & thus the performance of the corporate.
• Improving Mental Strength -  Many studies point to the fact that meditation can help reduce the feeling of depression, anxiety & mental burnout.  Thus a regular meditation program boosts employees  moods, empathy, and stress levels.
• Build Resiliency -  An effective mediation program helps in building resilience & techniques to cope with stress & emotional triggers at the workplace
• Healthier Work Relationships - Mediation also helps to foster employee interactions as a team & this aiding unity among them & thus a stronger sense of team achievement.

Meditation's biggest benefit is to make the Leaders of the future as with better self confidence, emotional intelligence & positivity one can be calm in the most difficult situations & have huge impact on effective decision making.

For incorporating Meditation program as part of the corporate strategy it is important employees become part of the same by knowing the benefits & practice it as part of lifestyle change. Corporations need to educate the workforce of the benefits & also have a dedicated trainer for the same at the office with fixed 30 minutes training weekly or a 10 minutes schedule daily. 

Also always keep the feedback loop so that you can improvise the program accordingly.

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Sandeep Sethi