Evidence-Based Workplace Wellness

🛣️🌍 Promote Cultural Integration in the Workplace: Establish Boundaries with Consideration and Awareness.

Community care + self-care = workplace wellness! 💪🌟 Community care: Build a supportive and inclusive environment. Communication, collaboration, empathy, recognition, and appreciation are key. Let's celebrate achievements and support each other! 🤝❤️ Self-care: Prioritize your well-being too! Find work-life balance, set boundaries, and invest in your physical, mental, and emotional health. You deserve self-care and self-love! 🌈😌 Components of community care 1. Communication and Collaboration: Foster open and transparent communication channels. Encourage team meetings, check-ins, and feedback sessions. 🗣️💬 2. Mentoring and Peer Support: Establish programs or networks for guidance and support. Share knowledge, develop skills, and build camaraderie. 🙌🤝 3. Empathy and Compassion: Cultivate a culture of understanding and respect. Show kindness and support during challenges. ❤️🤗 4. Recognition and Appreciation: Create mechanisms to acknowledge contributions and achievements. Implement public recognition, rewards, and celebrations. 🎉🏆 5. Work-Life Balance: Promote boundaries and flexibility. Help manage time, set expectations, and encourage rest. 💼⚖️ 6. Diversity and Inclusion: Foster a welcoming workplace for all backgrounds and perspectives. Implement initiatives, training, and policies for equity and belonging. 🌍🤝 7. Wellness Programs and Resources: Offer physical, mental, and emotional support. Provide workshops, counseling, or flexible arrangements. 🌿🧠💪 8. Continuous Feedback and Improvement: Seek employee feedback for well-being and job satisfaction. Make necessary adjustments to enhance workplace wellness. 📝🔄

If you’re returning back to work after vacation, design and implement post vacation reintegration strategies to boost wellness and creativity.

Many individuals feel challenges returning to work after a vacation. There are many emotions and feelings (positive and negative) experienced during this transition period. Recent literature identified four dimensions of difficulties when employees return to work after a vacation: 🔹work-related challenges 🔹social-level difficulties 🔹general difficulties, 🔹feeling of dis-identification. The emotions and feelings reported by participants had both positive and negative aspects. Many companies lack strategies to facilitate the readjustment to work. Recognizing the main difficulties and emotions experienced by employees is crucial for designing intervention practices that support this transition, ultimately promoting motivation, well-being, and productivity. Furthermore, the emotions associated with this return period could potentially predict individuals' attitudes towards work, offering additional value for enhancing human resource management processes. Adopting post vacation reintegration strategies is way for organizations to establish healthy employees and sustainable workplaces.

Try ✨Mastery ✨- an essential psychological detachment strategy that is evidence-based. Other things you can try: 1. Emotional recovery: After experiencing burnout, you need time to emotionally recover and re-engage with your work. Seek counseling or therapy to address the root causes of burnout and develop new coping mechanisms to prevent it from happening again. 2. Rebuilding trust: Burnout can often cause you to lose trust in your employer or colleagues, and it may take time to rebuild that trust. You may feel like you were not supported enough or that your employer did not take your burnout seriously. It's important to have open and honest communication with your employer about your needs and concerns. Supervisor support is key! ❗️ 3. Re-establishing boundaries: Returning to work after burnout requires you to establish new boundaries and stick to them. This may involve setting limits on your work hours, taking regular breaks, and prioritizing self-care. WOW - working on wellness time. 4. Adjusting workload: After burnout, it's important to ease back into your workload gradually. Trying to take on too much too soon can quickly lead to burnout again. You may need to have a conversation with your employer about your workload and make adjustments to ensure that you have a manageable workload. 5. Rebuilding confidence: Burnout can often leave you feeling unsure of yourself and your abilities. It's important to focus on rebuilding your confidence and self-esteem. Set small goals and celebrate your accomplishments, practice self-compassion, and seek support from colleagues and mentors. Returning to work after burnout is not business as usual, and it requires a thoughtful and intentional approach. It's important to prioritize your emotional and physical well-being and make changes to prevent burnout from happening again. It is possible and you will find a renewed sense of purpose, meaning and productivity.

🤔 if workplaces are interested in and invested in eliminating and minimizing, quiet quitting, the goal should be sustainability vs burning people out to the point of quiet quitting.

In a state of overwhelm, we can forget strategies! Relearn how to close the stress loop through these seven evidence-based strategies. Wellness is active. I actually forgot i needed positive social interactions, laughter and affection.

Listen to the little voice that is protecting you, or be prepared to hit a brick wall at some point. Learn ways to reject work requests without burning bridges, burning yourself or compromising relationships. Here are 4 that I have used a lot this year. Learning to say no to work requests is an important skill that can help you manage your time and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Learn these or copy/paste these responses when you are running low on bandwidth. #2 and #4 are underutilized IMO. I've used some form of all 4 this year. I have them saved on my phone (to respond to texts) and work laptops, so I know when to use them. If you want to become an effective communicator, master the art of respectfully declining work requests to improve your productivity and well-being.

❌Creativity at work is not limited to artistic or performance-related activities such as crafts, dance or music. It encompasses a broad range of activities that involve thinking outside the box, generating new ideas, and finding innovative solutions to problems. I have provided five different ways that replaces can use creativity to improve workplace wellness. 😄

1. Identify employee strengths and interest - things may have shifted pre-and post burn out. 2. Assess job tasks - consider adding or removing job duties to improve job satisfaction. 3. Foster autonomy - provide employees with autonomy their job tasks so that they can get control over their schedules and have input in decisions that affect their job Burnout can lead to disengagement, low morale, and decline in job performance. By providing opportunities for job crafting employers can help employees regain a sense of control and purpose in their work, leading to greater job satisfaction and engagement. Employers would further benefit from increased productivity and creativity from employees were more engaged and motivated. Job crafting is an important tool for employees and employers especially to support employees that are returning to work after burn out.