ALTR the IMPACT Guide
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In these unprecedented times of uncertainty and external pressure, wellness in the workplace has never been so crucial to efficiency, performance and often commercial survival. It is universally recognised that the workforce can either be an organisation’s greatest asset or most crippling expense. In an environment when profit margins are being reduced to extraordinarily low levels, it may feel to Boards and Management Strategists that making the workforce work harder is the only way to improve efficiency.
Research has shown this to be entirely counter productive. The net effect for businesses using a traditional model of efficiency drivers is often an improvement to revenue which is eradicated by increased costs and the commercial impact of employee sickness and staff retention levels. Frequently businesses experience the loss of ‘goodwill’ from their employees and the environmental impact of industrial methods falls by the wayside. The annual UK costs of sickness absence is in excess of £29bn!
We ALTR the Impact of the workplace to optimise wellness for employee satisfaction and commercial success through a variety of innovative tools and resources. We recognise that offering a wellness rhetoric without proper investment, the odd ad-hoc wellbeing day or a short-term interventions can achieve short term change. At ALTR we work with organisations and individuals to create meaningful and sustainable change, to improve work-life balance and provide long term support to encourage enduring healthy habits.
MANAGEMENT, DIRECTOR & BOARD LEVEL IMPACT
Research tells us unequivocally that stress and anxiety negatively impact cognitive performance. What many corporate managers don’t realise is that the release of levels of cortisol associated with high levels of stress reduces IQ and creativity by up to 40% within 7 minutes! Depression and anxiety related disorders are statistically associated with lower cognitive functioning and concentration, stifling creative ability and significantly reduced general workplace performance to plummet.
The need for improved resilience, mental health and associated wellness is equally crucial across the workforce. It is equally essential for effective Business Management, both commercially and in terms of Leadership. The hyper brain/hyper body theory holds that, for all of its advantages, being highly intelligent is associated with psychological and physiological “over-excitabilities,” or unusually intense reactions to a perceived stressor, including a heightened tendency to ruminate and worry and to experience a disproportionately acute physical response to stress. Research shows that these two types of Mental Wellness issues are more common in highly intelligent people and interact with each other in a “vicious cycle” to cause both psychological and physiological dysfunction. This triggers the body’s stress response and cortisol release, leading to physical and mental health issues and chronic underperformance, which brings with is even more dysfunction.
Smart, hyper-intelligent minds come with a twist: they often bring a turbocharged response to stress. It's like having a high-performance engine, but sometimes it revs a little too hard. This means more rumination, more worrying, and even a body that tends to overreact to stressors. It's a cycle, really. Highly intelligent folks can get caught in a loop, where their intense thinking fuels stress, and stress, in turn, fuels more intense thinking. Cortisol gets into the mix, and suddenly, physical and mental health start to suffer. It's like a domino effect of dysfunction and underperformance. ALTR provides techniques to break the cycle and tap into that brilliance without the burnout!
Studies have consistently shown that:
• The main work factors cited as causing work-related stress, depression or anxiety were workload pressures, including tight deadlines and too much responsibility and a lack of support from line management
• The Professional occupations category has statistically significantly higher rate of work-related stress, depression or anxiety than the rate for all occupations - nearly 50% higher than for almost all other groups
• We can help organisations relieve the pressure on their workforce without compromising efficiency whilst helping individual employees relieve stress and promote long lasting, tangible benefit for all.
COVID IMPACT
The already alarming statistics have been exacerbated at an extraordinary rate by lockdown restrictions, employee isolation from colleagues and support networks. The Royal College of Psychiatrists noted a 43% increase in urgent cases being referred last year in the UK in 2023 and predicts an imminent tsunami of mental health crises in the UK, urging everyone to be prepared. The World of Business and Corporate can really make a difference to their workforce and to their long term efficiency and profit margin by taking proactive steps now to underpin the wellbeing of their teams. It has become almost crucial to long term commercial success to promote good mental and physical health practices within the workplace through education and understanding and by establishing organisation-wide support strategies and a positive wellness culture. Results are enhanced significantly by simultaneously creating an educated and resilient Management and Board level structure that will promote wellness and support for long-term individual, collective and corporate benefit.
Now is the time to invest in the workforce and turn your biggest financial commitment into your greatest asset. A real opportunity has presented itself through the Coronavirus pandemic for businesses to work smarter and to strategise to get ahead of competitors in this way. By focussing on Corporate wellness, organisations will benefit from a paradigm shift in the social and environmental culture within their organisation, reignite employee brand-loyalty and goodwill and underpin sustainable and meaningful holistic, human resource and financial improvement.
EDUCATION & TRAINING:
Preparation for caring professions, any career involving exposure to traumatic events or mid to high level management positions should, without exception, include mental health and resilience training. Training organisations can design a bespoke training packages specifically tailored to the needs of their students, which include science based approaches, resilience toolkits and access to resources for longer term support through their training and into their working life. We deliver in person or remote training in seminar, workshop or classroom based format and collate and share performance review data to enable results based analysis.
Access our range of seminars from which to build your package here. Bespoke courses may be available on request.
ALTR THE IMPACT:
This series of seminars can be tailored for any workplace, educational setting or profession. We combine highly effective practical advice with science, encouraging an understanding of the impact of work on life and how to achieve and maintain better balance.
• Stress, Time & Efficiency
• Managing Stress and Vicarious
• Trauma Awaken the Workplace for Commercial Success
• How to Assess and Improve Mental Health
• The Subtle Art of Achieving Balance
• Building Neurological and Psychological Resilience
• Breathing For Beginners : Science & Progress
• Bringing Subconscious Behaviour into Consciousness
• Insulating the Immune System
• How to set and achieve goals
• In Pursuit of Happiness
• The Importance of Purpose
• Gut Health : Taking care of the second brain
• The Vagus Nerve : The highway to holistic health
• Recognising & Changing the Internal Narrative
• The Science of Gratitude
• Understanding the Structure and Functions of Self
• Life After Covid
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