How to Help Your Employees and Improve Wellbeing and Productivity

In this three-hour workshop, we introduce the ideas of employee engagement and mindfulness, and why they are such essential strategies for both improving the lives of staff and increasing the productivity of businesses today.

The connection between engagement and productivity shouldn’t be underestimated: under a third of UK employees are engaged and the cost of disengagement to the UK economy may be as high as £72 billion per year. And, 70 million days are lost from work each year due to mental ill health (anxiety, depression and stress related conditions) making it the leading cause of sickness absence.

People know this. They know engagement is important. However, how to engage employees has seemed to be a grey area, with organisations trying a number of strategies, with various degrees of success. Those strategies are not replicable from workplace to workplace – possibly not even from employee to employee. So even the most progressive employer who really does want to engage employees hasn’t got a clear, concrete and practical method for doing it.

In this workshop we’ll give an introduction to two strategies that will work in every organisation. The first is organisational – how to communicate collectively – and the second is individual – mindfulness.

We will be offering and guide you through some practical exercises and case studies.

And there will be time for your questions and thoughts.