THINK GLOBAL PEOPLE EXPAT WELLBEING
much as their colleagues would like them to. Moreover, 45% of employers said they find it difficult to make communication of health and wellbeing support relevant since the pandemic began. Iain Laws, CEO at Towergate
Health & Protection, says: “Our research tells us that employers are finding it harder to target specific messages at specific groups of their workforce. This has been the case since the start of the pandemic and is perhaps an indication of the challenge in keeping up with the rapid changes in working habits. Health and wellbeing support and its communication must be agile to adapt to these altering needs.” The majority of employers (56%)
state they have changed the way they communicate health and wellbeing support since the pandemic began. Hybrid working is a major factor, with 44% of employers saying they find it more difficult to communicate the support they offer employees because many work from home all or some of the time.
PERSONALISED SOLUTIONS Towergate’s research results also suggest that personalised support is the most effective solution in meeting the needs of employees now that so many circumstances have changed with the pandemic. Relevant benefits are more valuable, but communicating to different groups, across different channels, can be a challenge, says the broker, and also means offering tailored communication.While the pressure is on employers to provide ever wider choice of channels of communications, as the Think Global People and Relocate Awards highlight, there are now a great number of apps, hubs and online options to cater for communication preferences. Says Towergate Health & Protection, while the demand for communication channels is growing, and hybrid working is making a mix of options even more vital, technology is keeping up so employers can have access to powerful tools to make the challenges of communication easier. Concluding, Iain Laws says: “The clear need for health and wellbeing support to reach more people on a more individual basis means that effective communication of this support is critical.”
Embracing ambiguity & creativity
A key theme of the Hubs at the Future of Work Festival was looking at how managers and leaders redefine their role in this new world. Not only do they have a potentially disparate workforce to manage, but the world of business has become more unpredictable and fast-moving. New skills and new ways of thinking are needed to future-proof leadership qualities and business. The following day, Peter led a creativity walk and art session outdoors where
guests were able to experience for themselves the power of capturing ideas and emotions through colour and drawing with pastels.
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PETER MOOLAN-FEROZE trained as an artist at London University and then at The Royal Academy of Arts, London. At the Future of Work Festival, Peter was talking about creativity and ambiguity and how to adapt to change. “The world is changing at a rapid pace and
managers are facing huge uncertainty,” he says. “When I work with managers and leaders, I encourage them to embrace the unknown ambiguity by using their imagination, something
that artists naturally embrace. More and more business managers are starting to see the benefits of that. “It’s about being able to react in a more spontaneous way that
combines experience and inexperience, intellect and emotion, observation and imagination and intuition and empathy. If you don’t give managers time to explore themselves, how can they be creative and how can they respond to uncertainty? Picasso is quoted as saying that even a small piece of thread offers a significant role in a future picture. The smallest thing can suggest or inspire an important development and that can be as simple as changing or adapting language or making small changes.”
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