Wellbeing is more than a buzzword or trend—it's becoming essential if you want to attract and retain top talent.
Today’s talent pool is looking for more than great benefits, they want the freedom and flexibility to decide how they get the job done.
The last thing any employee wants to be is micromanaged. The constant looking over the shoulder, dictating how tasks should be done and even discouraging decision making can create distrust and burnout.
When you foster an environment of autonomy, you’re giving your employees the freedom to decide how to get their work done and empower them to feel more confident in their actions.
Autonomy: I feel in control
Autonomy isn’t about letting go of deadlines, boundaries, or guidance. Studies show that workplace autonomy increases an employee’s sense of job satisfaction, loyalty, motivation, commitment, engagement, creativity, and overall wellbeing.
While autonomy will look different for every company, giving people more can significantly increase organisational commitment and is a powerful motivator.
Interestingly, research shows that although we might jump to offering financial incentives or rewards as a way of motivating our people, giving them more choices yield greater results.
Although proper financial compensation is incredibly important, the sense of freedom that comes with having more choices is an intrinsic motivator, boosting loyalty, commitment and engagement more than an extrinsic motivator like a financial bonus.
Wellworking™ with MindGym
With investments climbing into the billions, most organisations know that wellbeing is good for productivity. Higher employee wellbeing results in positive business impacts. Business leaders recognize this, but for many corporate wellbeing programs, ROI is low, and burnout and attrition are on the rise.
One reason might be that the investment isn’t going where it’s needed, as organisations are targeting wellbeing outside of work where impact is marginal at best.
Instead of acting at the periphery we need to ask ourselves where organisations can make the biggest difference. The answer? Creating the right conditions for wellbeing at work.
MindGym’s team of behavioural scientists have crafted our Wellworking solution based on the five drivers of wellbeing: certainty, competence, autonomy, belonging, and purpose to create a science-backed approach that focuses on developing the right conditions at work so organisations can succeed in helping their people flourish.
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