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Organizations rely on their employees to optimize company performance, which can suffer during employees’ personal life transitions. A divorce, issues with aging parents, family illness or death, mean time and focus often shifts to critical personal tasks and responsibilities. No matter how dedicated and conscientious, employees faced with outside appointments and responsibilities must often use regular business hours or take unscheduled leave to accomplish required tasks; this adds stress to the employee and their managers.
Retention of good employees over the long term is in everyone’s best interest, as replacement is costly and disruptive. Yet, the interests of the organization may be strained while an employee copes with and manages a period of personal life challenge.
The Financial Reality: $75 Billion Workplace Costs (of personal life challenges), include the following estimates:
- Death of a loved: $37.6 billion
- Divorce/Marital woes: $11 billion
- Family Crisis $ 9 billion
- Financial Trouble: $4.6 billion ( pre-recession)
(Source: Aurorawinter.com, The Wall Street
Journal)
Compassionate employers want to assist, but must
- balance company needs for cost-effectiveness and productivity
- maintain healthy boundaries between supervisors and employees
- respect personal privacy and foster organizational fairness
Springboard’s Life Management Resources include support via informational reports, newsletters, teleclasses, web-based communication, self study programs and downloadable MP3 recorded classes. As a web-based program, you control access in accordance with your company policies. Employees can access our resources from home, while traveling, during work breaks or outside of work.
We believe that a proactive approach of education and information may prevent or lessen the impact of a life transition. Although we work with people in a crisis, we prefer helping people avoid them! Articles and teleclasses by our network of experienced professionals are written for “lay” people on topics such as basics of estate planning, issues arising in divorce, single parenting, helping aging parents, financial literacy and more. Like a “wellness” program for life management, educational resources are available for everyone enrolled, and can also complement an EAP.
Life Management Resources: For the Whole Organization
Once in a transition, employees may register privately online for Transition • Points. A self-study modular program delivered to their email monthly, its focus is coping strategies, informational support to better manage challenges, and inspiration to move forward. It can enrich an employee acknowledgement program, such as for an illness or family death, by simply including a reminder of this benefit in correspondence normally sent from a supervisor or human resources.
Complex needs require personalized assistance with planning and/or managing a life transition. Springboard accepts private clients who need consulting services on a fee for service basis. Transition Services are valuable for complex business and financial issues or significant assets, when having a managed, coordinated team approach is both wise and cost-effective. For instance, Transition Services can help balance executive responsibilities with time-intensive and stressful life management demands, including:
- help with time-consuming aspects of referrals to professional advisors,
- appointment preparation and scheduling,
- coordinating communication between advisors and appointments,
- tracking and reminders for tasks.
Note: Services are in addition to the Life Management Program; employees receive a corporate rate as a value-added feature.
A Recap of Life Management Resources: It Reaches All Employees: Through web based informational resources
And, For Those in Transition: With extra assistance through Transition Points private online informational support
Also, For Complex Needs: Employees save if using Springboard Transition (consulting) Services
Email us now for a customized proposal for your organization that is:
- Affordable for company and employees
- Accepted and valued as an added benefit that respects privacy of individuals
- Accessible to everyone, all the time, and valuable tool to support managers/supervisors
- Adaptable to company policies, processes, and your employee assistance and acknowledgement programs.
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