HEALTHY LOSS RECOVERY
GRIEF AT WORK
With a background in HR I appreciate the emphasis on looking after your employees. The impact of loss on one of your senior team and key talent can have a significant impact on their wellbeing and performance. Giving them support with their grief at work when they are facing disruption from loss will help to improve their consistency and clarity.
The cost of grief to employers is huge but the Financial Cost of Grief in the workplace, is so hidden that if you search for the word “grief” on the Office for National Statistics website it will not only produce zero search results it will ask you if you meant “green”.
Through our experience we know that the number one symptom so common, almost universal, is a massively reduced ability to concentrate. We almost never hear about the emotional impact of death or any other loss.
IMPACT OF GRIEF
In a survey conducted by The Grief Recovery Institute on the impact of grief at work, responses amongst Management executives was:
85% of management level decision makers rated their decision making very poor or poor in the weeks following the grief incident that affected them.
60% of those responding fair, poor or very poor indicated that some of their decisions did have a direct negative financial impact on their company.
A further 30% indicated that their decisions may have had a direct financial impact on their company.
In other words only 10% were confident their decisions didn’t impact their company bottom line negatively!
Are you confident that your practices to support your executives that have experienced a loss is robust enough?
grief recovery specialist
I work with the Grief Recovery Method. It is the only evidence based grief recovery action programme for those tired of carrying the pain and want to feel better.
Many of us were taught how to acquire things but not how to lose things. The Grief Recovery Method teaches this life skill.
As an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist, I work with the griever over 7 sessions guiding them in taking specific steps to complete their loss.
The Grief Recovery Method is not therapy or counselling. It is recovery rather than discovery. A fully supported set of actions to help the griever move beyond the pain.
Recovery does not mean forget; it means having a healed perspective rather than living from the place of pain.
GRIEF EDUCATION
I also work with teams to help them understand more about grief, grief at work and grief recovery:
- Educational Sector – an offering to teachers on how to support children dealing with loss
- Corporate Support - Upskilling HR departments – local to the Warwick/Oxford area
- Professional carers including NHS staff, nursing homes, and charities
I can support with:
- Grief awareness training – upskilling
- Specialist grief HR advice – policies and procedures for those experiencing significant change or loss
- One to one sessions with employees