Eiger Regulatory Partners in partnership with JBE Health are a leading provider of emotional health and resilience training courses and tools.
Why is emotional health such a critical, but under developed subject in the financial services industry?
Health check questions: how are you meeting FCA expectations on providing effective mental health and emotional health support to your workforce?
How to Cope During the Coronavirus Crisis
This pandemic presents challenges unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before and inevitably some of your employees will be feeling anxious about their health, unsettled by having to work from home in isolation or whilst juggling the demands of their family and apprehensive about the economy and their future.
Whilst the ultimate impact of Coronavirus on all our lives remains unclear, wouldn’t it be reassuring to know that your colleagues have access to a resource specifically created to help them, emotionally, get through the difficult weeks and months ahead?
Emotional Health expert, Jon Bockelmann-Evans, surveyed a number of his clients and based on what they told him would be most valuable for their employees, he has created a concise online training course that people can watch time and again to help them cope with the emotional and psychological challenges of the situation.
What is emotional health and why does it matter?
Emotional health is the often over-looked but vital component that binds together and supports our physical and mental health. If we don’t pay attention to our Emotional Health (EH) then we may end up neglecting our physical health and we can become vulnerable to mental health problems.
By understanding the building blocks of how to be Emotionally Healthy and knowing how to monitor and if necessary improve one’s EH, individuals are far more likely to be at their very best within the workplace and outside of it, and are far less likely to experience mental health issues.
Why is emotional health such a critical, but under developed subject in the financial services industry?
The financial services industry is an exciting, dynamic and competitive sector. It attracts high achieving individuals who accept that the rewards available in terms of career progression and remuneration will be matched by high expectations for them to perform well and deliver in their work role.
Long working hours and a mentality that the job comes first have, historically, been the norm.
Emotional Health is an under developed subject in our society in general. In recent years, the focus has been on ensuring that the stigma associated with mental health problems has been overturned, and rightly so. However, an unintended consequence of this is that there are significant numbers of individuals who don’t have mental health problems but who are, because of life circumstances, at risk of experiencing emotional health challenges which are going unnoticed and unsupported. If these are left unattended they could manifest as more serious mental health issues.
The culture in financial services is about performance, excelling, competing and dedication. It’s not surprising therefore that a significant number of employees in the sector fall into the category of being at risk of developing emotional health issues – which are relatively straight-forward to address – but which if over-looked may in time develop into mental health problems – which can be much more difficult to address.
What are the commercial benefits of improving emotional health within your workforce?
- Improved employee performance
- Optimal organisational productivity
- Maximum employee engagement
- An emotionally healthy workforce make good decisions
- Reduced absenteeism, presenteeism and staff churn
- Reduced disputes and conflict
- It demonstrates corporate responsibility
Health check questions: how are you meeting FCA expectations on providing effective mental health and emotional wellbeing support to your workforce?
- Do your Managers know how to do a simple Emotional Health Audit that would immediately provide them with meaningful information about the emotional health of their teams? Someone may have low scores if assessed for mental health issues, which means you don’t think they require any support, but significant scores for emotional health issues which left unattended could result in mental health issues arising in the future.
- What is the level of employee absence within your organisation due to emotional health issues? These figures could act as an early-warning system of potentially more serious and long-term mental health problems.
- What resources are available to staff and are they adequate?
- How much does your organisation spend on employee emotional health training and support?
How can we help you?
Jon Bockelmann-Evans from JBE Health has been helping high achieving individuals and teams from global companies such as Nike, Dow and Merck to effectively manage the challenges in their lives for 20 years and is an acknowledged expert in resilience, emotional health and wellbeing.
His live workshops, leadership development courses, conference keynotes and online training sessions contain a unique blend of powerful techniques, strategies and tactics drawn from his clinical experiences and the fields of physiology, psychology and personal development that provide attendees with genuinely effective, practical help for dealing with the challenges that so many high achievers encounter in the workplace and at home.
Jon can also help managers and leaders to learn how to easily monitor the emotional health of their teams with simple to use assessment tools. These can;
- help you to fulfil your FCA obligations to provide mental health and emotional wellbeing support to your workforce and
- provide an early warning of potential mental health issues in a team member, the impact of which on both the individual concerned and the organisation, if addressed quickly, could be mitigated.
The real challenge in any sector, but especially in financial services is not awareness of emotional or mental health issues. It is not even the perceived stigma that may still exist or people’s reluctance to talk about problems or seek help. The real challenge for any individual experiencing a serious emotional or mental health problem is a practical one, namely ‘What can I do right now, in this moment, to feel a bit better, to get through the day so that my life doesn’t feel like it may fall apart?’ And ‘How can I be at my best when I really need to be?’
We can help you answer those questions.