Globally, across almost every sector, businesses are facing an existential threat posed by numerous geopolitical and economic factors. But perhaps the biggest threat of all lies in the recent and seismic shift in the relationship between employer and employee. Employees are no longer willing to allow the quality of life and risk of poor mental health to be an acceptable cost for their professional ambition. But, far from being a risk, focusing on the good mental health of our people represents our greatest opportunity.
Globally, across almost every sector, businesses are facing an existential threat posed by numerous geopolitical and economic factors. But perhaps the biggest threat of all lies in the recent and seismic shift in the relationship between employer and employee. Employees are no longer willing to allow the quality of life and risk of poor mental health to be an acceptable cost for their professional ambition. But, far from being a risk, focusing on the good mental health of our people represents our greatest opportunity.
Our vision at CHX is of a World full of higher performing, more engaged, kinder organisations, with Leadership and Management able to create pro-social, highly engaged environments that enable their people to achieve all their career aspirations whilst staying and feeling well.
Building sustainable business cultures requires a new approach and how our people are doing and how our people feel sits at the heart of this sustainability. Health biases how they connect with the purpose of the organisation, how they connect with their leaders, how they connect with each other and how they connect with the needs of the business. Feelings signal the health of an organisation and feelings drive performance. Feelings are misunderstood; feelings are hard biological data.
of mental ill health stems from Mood and Emotion dysregulation (World Health Organisation data).
“When leaders view their workers not as resources, but as humans with individual goals, choices, and preferences, they are able to engage with their workforce in an elevated way that mutually benefits the employees and the organization.”
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“When leaders view their workers not as resources, but as humans with individual goals, choices, and preferences, they are able to engage with their workforce in an elevated way that mutually benefits the employees and the organization.”
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
J Krishnamurti
The outdated model of Resilience places responsibility for health solely on the individual. It assumes a person's mental or physical health issues are a pathological response to a healthy environment.
CHX take a different view; that health of an organisation is about shared responsibility between the individual, leadership and the working environment and that in many businesses, mental or physical poor health is actually often (paradoxically) a healthy response to a pathological environment.
Good health depends on individual, collective and institutional practices, and give that it critically underpins high performance, it needs to be lead from the top and applied throughout.
