Wellbeing In The Work Place - Portable Creature Comforts

Why do we need to have workplace wellbeing? Because we spend so much time in the workplace even if your work place is home, it needs to induce wellbeing and make sure that your work life balance is suitable to your needs. Many professionals who go out to work will not have the creature comforts around them; if you are" hot desk-ing, outsourced, small office-ing, open planned, Nomad working", or moving from office to office, you know that it is not so easy to get your comforting and familiar things around you. However there are ways that you can achieve a holistic wellbeing in the workplace no matter what your work place looks like.

One of the issues which you might consider if stress is ruining your life is how to build a structure around you which you can take any where you work.

Why would you do this? Well most organization are demanding what they now call "Emotional Resilience" in their workers. What is this new concept? Well with the demand for workers not to be made ill by their work organizations are stating that their workers need to take responsibility for their resilience to the emotional impact of their job.

From gas fitters to social workers, you will experience stress as unique to you. As an employee you will therefore need to know what impact stress is having on your perception of reality, your thinking and on your behavior

It is not really a new concept, it's meaning is related to vigor in the workplace, and is measured on an individuals ability to complete work because they have the physical, emotional or cognitive strength to meet the demands of the job.

How will this affect some workers? Well basically if you do not know what the test for emotional resilience is you will not know how to prove it.

So what ways can you ensure you prepare yourself for things which may affect your well being at work?

Although there are thought to be 3 major ways of ensuring a balance life, which equally equate to wellbeing in the work place i.e. spiritual, physical and emotional wellbeing, you need to establish patterns to keep you on track to ensuring that you are achieving a balance in your life.

There are 5 key areas which workers may wish to consider in getting them to this balance

1. Awareness of your needs

An awareness of what your needs are, and what the demands of the job have on you as well as what your employer expects from you.

2. Self Care

How you intend to take care of yourself whilst you do your job and all available resources which are in side your organization as well as external to your organization need to be mobilized in order to care for you.

3. Career development or goals

Basically whatever you choose to take on to keep you motivated and stimulated and to achieve your potential both in work and in your own life.

4. A reviewing system which is effective

How you are going to keep yourself on track in order to achieve the things which you think are important and to ensure you get the right life work balance which makes a difference to you.

5. Positive mind frame

And finally being positive about yourself and what you are achieving or have achieved. This is especially important as the shifting of your emotional position at will so that you can affect the desired results for you, enhancing your thinking, and increasing the use of positive behaviors will have major benefits for you.

You do not need to be dependent on what your organization has to offer you alone, you can take some control and obtain emotional resilience and vigor at work whilst ensuring a healthy balance in your life. Your creature comforts now become mobile Assets which help to bolster your emotional resilience and are also transferable so you can take them with you no matter what environment you work in.

Gradle Gardner Martin is a Social Worker, Trainer and Author. Her new book "Inducing Wellbeing In The Work Place: A Workers Guide To Stress Management" available to buy from her website http://www.myworkplacewellbeing.com and at all book stores.