Managing and Supporting Employee Wellness
Managing and Supporting Employee Wellness
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- identify three key elements that support employee wellness in the workplace
- recognize holistic approaches to employee programs that align all important areas of wellness
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Skills in Identifying Wellness Areas
- identify ways managers can proactively monitor for employee strain and pressure
- identify techniques to help employees balance the demands of work and private life
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Skills in Supporting Empoyee Wellness
- reflect on what you've learned
Work is important on many levels. A job your employees enjoy and find meaningful can also affect their physical and emotional health. On a strictly business level, organizations benefit when employees are happy and healthy at work because workplace wellness leads to increases in productivity and creativity, a greater focus on safety and retention, and decreases in nonattendance. In this course, you’ll discover the impact of work on three major areas of work life and how facets of wellness programs can help support your employees in those areas. You’ll come to recognize symptoms of stress and burnout in your people and discover methods you can use to help them balance the demands of work and private life. Additionally, you’ll learn approaches to employee wellness that connect all the important areas of health.
Optimizing Your Workplace Well-being
Optimizing Your Workplace Well-being
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- recognize the basic elements of workplace wellness
- identify key factors that affect your wellness
- Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Wellness Factor Identification Skills
- recognize early indicators of wellness problems
- recognize strategies to build wellness resilience at work and at home
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Wellness Care Skills
- reflect on what you've learned
Especially in times of disruption and change, your health and wellness – both physical and mental – can sometimes take a backburner to urgent and pressing needs. Prioritizing your wellness can be life-changing on a personal level, with the added benefits to employers of increased productivity, employee engagement, and retention. In this course, you’ll learn to identify the elements of well-being at work and understand how common work and home factors can cause wellness to go out of balance. You’ll also learn how to recognize signs of stress in yourself and in others, and what strategies help build resilience and promote wellness in all of life’s dimensions: at work and at home; in mind, body, and human connections.
Thriving with High-pressure Work
Thriving with High-pressure Work
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- recognize the different ways pressure impacts you negatively
- select daily methods that make you more resilient to challenges from pressure and stress
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Skills in Observing Pressure
- identify techniques for developing the mental distance to aid your performance in a high-pressure situation
- recognize actions to take to work effectively in high-pressure environments
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing your Skills for Working under Pressure
- reflect on what you've learned
The stress that comes with work pressures can be overwhelming. But while you can't control the external events that lead to pressure, you can be proactive at recognizing stress and pressure, and consciously choose how you react. This allows you to use pressure to sharpen your focus and energize your work instead of being rolled by its force and dragged under its waves. In this course, you'll learn what situations are likely to trigger pressure, and how stress affects you physically and mentally. You'll also learn daily methods to make you more resilient to the challenges of pressure and stress, techniques for developing the mental flexibility to adjust to a high-pressure situation, and how to take action in the midst of one.
