Why does mental health matter to corporate organizations?

Growing in awareness of mental health in your corporate organization matters! Mental health challenges directly impact employee absenteeism, performance, co-worker relationships, project management, healthcare expenses, and organizational profitability. What does mental health matter at work? Without organizational awareness and understanding of the implications of depression, anxiety, compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma and how to be sensitive to these issues across all of your employees, the entire organization, top to bottom...including your bottom line, is impacted. 

For decades, corporate organizations have worked hard to become inclusive of culture and diversity. However, they have lacked mental health inclusivity and awareness. Rather, the corporate culture has become focused on working longer hours, working through lunch, ignoring breaks, and has largely removed team building and relationship facilitation. These changes, while deemed to be supportive of the demands of innovation, have instead contributed to a culture of anxiety, depression, burnout, fatigue, absenteeism, mental illness, physical illness, and low morale. Our corporate culture must recognize that mental health must be attended to if organizations seek to grow and improve employee retention and financial growth.

Years ago, corporate training focused on diversity and inclusion. This has become a mainstream component of human resources and organizational management. We must invest the same degree of commitment to supporting employee mental health in the corporate world. Corporate training on how to recognize the challenges and become mental health aware as organizational leaders and employees is vital!

I have provided training to corporate organizations in healthcare and beyond. These conditions impact every segment of business. Ask me today about providing training to your organization and helping you innovate and improve your team's mental health.

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