Why Mindset Workshops Work
WHY DO MINDSET WORKSHOPS WORK?
EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING IS LINKED TO PRODUCTIVITY
According to The Willis 2015 Health and Productivity Survey Report, Senior Management typically understands the link between employee health and workforce productivity. In fact, forward-thinking employers recognize that there is considerable value to a healthier workforce beyond the value of lower medical costs and are implementing a Value of Investment (VOI) methodology. VOI-focused organizations embrace a wider set of metrics than Return on Investment (ROI) focused organizations that include: absenteeism, worker morale, employee turnover, presenteeism costs, workers compensation, short- and long-term disability, employee loyalty, and tenure.
STRESS IS A MAJOR CONTROLLABLE HEALTH FACTOR
“75% of all chronic disease is caused by four factors: food choices and portion size, physical inactivity, stress, and tobacco use. These factors are also responsible for 81% of all hospital admissions, and these factors are controllable.”
Stress, for example, impacts individuals differently. Those individuals with more of a growth mindset use their experiences as a positive motivator to benefit them while those with a limited mindset are less capable of using their experiences to serve their growth and productivity. Therefore, the goal is not to decrease the level of stress or to erase it completely, but instead to change the mindset and reframe how stress is interpreted (See www.psychologytoday.com article).
According to WebMD, factors that can lead to stress are fear and uncertainty, attitudes and perceptions, unrealistic expectations, and change. These too are related to a person’s mindset.
MINDSET EXPANSION IS KEY
“For many years, the spotlight has been on stress’s negative aspects, including detrimental health effects, loss of productivity, and depression. This interpretation may be well intended, but the result of such perspective may be countereffective. The findings of these studies indicate that people can be primed to adopt a stress-is-enhancing mindset, which can have positive consequences relating to improved health and work performance. This does not mean that people should seek out more stress. But, it does mean is that people may not need to focus single-mindedly on reducing their stress. The message of this research is ultimately a positive one: eliciting the enhancing aspects of stress (as opposed to merely preventing the debilitating ones) may be, in part, a matter of changing one’s mindset.” – Alia J. Crum, Peter Salovey, & Shawn Achor
“Stress can have enhancing effects on health, performance, and wellbeing. The degree to which stress produces beneficial or harmful effects depends largely on the mindset through which stress is viewed.” – Alia Crum & Chris Lyddy
WORKSHOPS ARE DESIGNED FOR MINDSET EXPANSION & CREATE A PARTICIPANT-CENTERED ENVIRONMENT
Workshops are structured to embrace mindset expansion and participant revelations with the following elements:
- Open-ended questions
- Partner discussion
- Summary skills practice
- Trust building between co-workers
- Reframing skills practice
- Group discussion & brainstorming
- Free-flowing style to match the needs of the participants (including abandoning the entire framework and/or building it with participant feedback and expectations on the spot)
- Active listening skills practice
- Reflection space to decide what takeaway to try immediately as a new behavior
- Partner accountability
- No right answers or required information assimilation
- Space to consider values and beliefs aligning with expanded mindset ideas to execute new behavior
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