Making Emotional Support a Priority
As a year has gone by since the COVID-19 pandemic started, life has pivoted. Daily habits and behaviors were forced to change. With that change comes an array of emotions. While the pandemic has slowed down some aspects of life, overall, employees still feel more stress than pre-pandemic. In fact, according to the American Psychological Association, nearly 8 in 10 Americans say the pandemic is a significant source of stress in their life.
Why Organizations are Offering Emotional Support for Employees
With the rise in stress levels, supporting employees' emotional health has never been as important. There is no doubt the negative impact stress has on the mind and body. Organizations can offer their support by making well-being a priority.
Well-being is not purely physical. An employee's subjective opinion on their well-being matters as it relates to their perspective of life satisfaction, job satisfaction and positively correlates with the performance. Subjective well-being can predict the following:
Health
Absenteeism
Self-regulation
Motivation
Creativity
Relationships
Job Turnover
What is emotional fitness?
Employees' experiences and overall emotional well-being are essential to their quality of life. But, being emotionally fit doesn't mean being happy-go-lucky all the time. Learning how to acknowledge and accept emotions takes practice and patience. When employees are emotionally fit, they can implement simple strategies to combat stress or negative emotions to guiding them towards positivity. Alyfe believes everyone can strive to grow their emotional fitness level and in turn, improve their subjective well-being.
How Alyfe is Helping Organizations Support Employees Emotional Fitness
While employees have certainly adapted to change and learned how to live through the pandemic, everyone frequently experiences new challenges that can trigger emotions. Learning about emotional fitness can help employees and provide organizations with a new and unique way to support their employees on their path to a healthier self. Alyfe helps to support employees emotional fitness with the following solutions:
Emotionally Fit is a challenge that teaches employees to accept their emotions and guide behavior toward a positive outcome. Everyone's path of emotional fitness is unique. What makes one person happy isn't going to make another feel the same way. Alyfe acknowledges that personalization is necessary.
The Emotionally Fit Challenge offers a fun game world experience and personalized tracking to emotional fitness themes like gratitude, mindfulness, social connection, sleep, and resilience.
Want a bundle of resources that your team can use at the local level for easy engagement to share emotional fitness tactics? With the Emotional Fitness Wellness Kits, you can find multiple types of resources like flyers, group activities, articles, a lunch and learn presentation, along with a guide and project plan for successful implementation with your employee population.
Be one of the many organizations that are taking steps to assure their employees have the assets they need to be emotionally fit. With your support, and Alyfe’s tools, your workplace, whether onsite or remote, can be a strong, healthy culture.