Employee wellness starts with feeling secure

The COVID pandemic has shone a spotlight on the wellbeing of all employees. That’s not to say it didn’t matter before, but for businesses like Icon Visual Marketing, whose staff are now primarily working from home, the pandemic has brought new challenges.

For Icon, wellness is about a positive mindset for our people.

It starts with working with our people to ensure they are clear about success in their job. Once that’s established, we work with them to track their progress and celebrate their successes. The manager’s role is to support employees to be successful as they track their achievements, rather than waiting for managers to tell them they are doing well.

Feelings of wellbeing are fundamental to the overall health of an individual, enabling them to successfully overcome difficulties and achieve what they want out of life. Past experiences, attitudes and outlook can all impact wellbeing.

At Icon we consciously and proactively build for wellbeing as part of good practice. It benefits each individual and it also benefits the company.

Late last year, and early this year we held a series of workshops with all staff in the room, which is rare for a medium-sized firm like Icon. We asked our people what we needed to do in the future to grow and prosper, and we’re now implementing some of what we learnt.