Our approach goes beyond the traditional ‘hygiene’ factor of employee wellbeing, which usually includes providing facilities for employees to eat well, exercise and build social networks. This is insufficient for personal sustained high performance. What is required is an elevation in self-leadership and personal responsibility. We work on the 4 inner resources we all have access to, in order to consistently and reliably operate at our best:
The Flourish Initiative
Flourish: Beyond Wellbeing
Flourishing: maintaining a deep sense of wellbeing, meaning and purpose even in the face of challenge, uncertainty and adversity.
When people build their inner resourcefulness and have enhanced capacity and resilience they are able to consistently and reliably bring the best of themselves to deliver for the organisation whilst living a fulfilling and meaningful life.
‘Wellbeing: the state of being comfortable, health or happy’. Our health and wellbeing are essential but not sufficient for a highly challenging and demanding business environment.
‘Flourishing: developing rapidly and successfully: thriving’. Flourishing is beyond wellbeing and is essential for sustainable high performance, life fulfilment and business prosperity.
THE CHALLENGE
Around the world individuals and teams are facing relentless change and increasing demands. People are often overwhelmed, burned out, mentally depleted and emotionally drained from trying to keep up. These are the challenges business leaders face today and we help them to solve:
Change Fatigue
Leading to apathy and burn out from people trying to "tough it out" with no opportunity to replenish
Uncertainty
Leading to job insecurity and lack of psychological safety, people feeling confused
Overwhelm
With diminished ressources and financial cut-backs, people are having to do more with less
Self-Protection
To avoid the further burden of responsibility, risk aversion becoming the norm
Lack of Trust
Loss of confidence in senior leaders, being able to provide clarity and certainty
Engagement
People uninspired by lack of purpose and meaning, feeling undervalued and unappreciated
Why Flourishing matters
beyond wellbeing
"40% of what determines our fulfilment, satisfaction, sustainable happiness and wellbeing lies in our own hands".
The Flourish Initiative
Where to begin
BUILDING TRUE RESILIENCE
Shifting from the old style of resilience "toughing it out" to learn and embrace a new definition of resilience that is sourced from a deep sense of wellbeing.
ELEVATING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Each and every person has a contribution to make, recoginising this and committing to bringing this to the business each and every day.
DEVELOPING THE 4 INTELLIGENCES
Our 4 inner human resources can be developed and expanded to transform the way we live and lead: the intelligence of our body, emotions, intellect and spirit.
LIVING WITH MEANING AND PURPOSE
Feeling valued, knowing our lives matter and we have purpose is essential to fulfilment and activates the willingness to bring discretionary effort.