MeditationCoach can help businesses of all sizes in several ways:
Stress management programmes
Teamwork and productivity training
Career development
Management and leadership training
Change management
Stress management
Stress costs the UK around £3.8 billion a year. One in five workers in the UK, that’s 5 million people, suffer from it. An average sufferer takes 29 days sick leave a year. The Health and Safety Executive estimates 13.4 million working days are lost every year because of stress, depression, anxiety or medical conditions put down to stress in the workplace.
Work related stress has a direct impact upon businesses:
Increased absences
Reduced staff morale
Reduced productivity and staff performance
Increased staff turnover
Reduced motivation and commitment
Health and safety
Meditation is now a mainstream and cost-effective element of workplace stress prevention programmes and interventions. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 employers have a legal responsibility to protect their employees from stress-related illnesses. All companies are now required to carry out risk assessments for stress. If they don’t, they could find themselves open to legal action.
Personal and team coaching
Used as an add-on module to existing training courses or as stand-alone sessions, a short MeditationCoach programme can deepen the learning experience in personal or group coaching sessions. Studies of meditation highlight the following psychological effects within a relatively short space of time:
Improvement in problem solving and creativity
Increased job performance and focus
Increased sense of having control over one’s work environment
Improved empathy, self-image and self-actualisation
In the workplace these effects can have a positive and practical impact on productivity, teamwork, management and leadership training, career development, planning and change management.
A study of meditation in the workplace by the UCLA Graduate School of Management, California, came to the conclusion that the potential benefits to businesses would more than likely offset the low cost involved in creating and conducting meditation programmes in organisational settings.
Meditation in the workplace works. Email us today for more information on how we can help your business.
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“People are your greatest asset, and a healthy and happy workforce is likely to be a more productive one”
- Bill Callaghan, chair Health and Safety Commission
