Corporate Wellness and Counselling
Our understanding is that great leaders are equally curious about themselves as about the world. They proactively seek feedback from others and learn from it. They admit that learning is a lifelong engagement and are committed to continued improvement. Most often leaders / managers assume they are emotionally resilient and know how to effectively work with people. However, the issue is the likelihood of overestimating oneself. Studies have shown that on average, people place themselves several points higher on scales of emotional intelligence than the people who work with them do.
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as WE are." - Anais Nin
The Self Awareness Deficits are:
- Over Estimation
- Under Estimation
"Self-awareness comes from deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions," said Stephen Covey (Author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People).
One of the most valuable skills a manager can have is a thorough, realistic understanding of themselves and the capacity for self-reflection. Ability to see oneself and reflect on one's own behaviour: what went well, what didn't go so well and how to improve in future.
The commonly experienced organizational stressors are:
- Lack of Opportunity for Growth or Advancement
- Work overload
- Being subject to bullying
- Uncertain or undefined job expectations
- Work - Life balance
- Job insecurity
- Lack of participation in decision making
- Seamless working hours
- Performance pressure and anxiety
- Pressures of a matrix organization structure
Coupled with individual agony
- Anger
- Fear
- Helplessness
- Loneliness
- Anxiety
- Frustration
- Relationship issues
- Health of parents/children
- Burgeoning financial commitments
- Fear of failure
- Overbearing sense of hopelessness
The expected outcomes of corporate counselling programmes are as following:
- To have a healthy people and task-oriented approach
- To manage and sustain company values at work.
- To be self-aware