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Wellness is not a destination — it is a quiet space you create within yourself. A space where your body feels safe, your mind feels light, and your soul feels warm.

Introduction

At the start of this decade, the pandemic emerged; locked us in our homes and forced the world to come to an eerie standstill. In these trying circumstances, we attempted to juggle our lives at home with day-to-day challenges at work. However, with the pandemic extending over a year and more, amidst combating everything from computer fatigue, managing household chores, children and elders around boundaryless work schedules, we forgot to take care of ourselves. This silently took a toll on the physical and the emotional well-being of many of us in our workspace. Holistic Well-Being whether a part of upper management, mid-level, or fresher an imbalanced life situation has seen a significant upward trend. As people leaders, it had become critical for us to address this issue…

Our approach to capability development

At NextWealth, we believe in a holistic approach to people development. In simple words it means happy, healthy and steadfast employees combined with proper skill-development regime can positively impact productivity and performance. Our capability model is built around this approach and thus plays a crucial role in supporting our employees from the ground up.

Outer Development focused programs impact organizational learnings like employee-centric induction, industry-based training, product and process training delivered by training teams. The model also gives employees a chance to invest in themselves and make their output more relevant to changing business landscape by leveraging e-learning courses on emerging technologies and practices in the AIML domain. Outer-Inner Development programs deliver a positive impact on behavioural nuances like effective communication, problem solving, negotiation skills and strategic leadership. The behaviour centric leadership courses potentially change the approach to teamwork, tone, strategy to help first time leaders navigate their new role and introduce senior leaders to new techniques to get the best out of their teammates.   Inner Development programs focus on emotional and inner well-being of employees by educating them on adopting a holistic lifestyle inclusive of physical health regime, introduction of cleaner and heathier diet choices and small steps toward practices like mindfulness and meditation.  To help the employees be candid about their problems and make full use of this program, we surveyed to examine the problems plaguing the employees as they navigated the work from home arrangement.

200+ leaders participated in the NextWealth Inner Wellness Survey and more than 75% of them showed interest in bettering their mental, physical, and overall well-being.

Our employees confronted a diverse set of problems, which impacted more than just their physical health. Some reported losing interest in most things, lack of sleep, worry, anxiety, restlessness, lower back pain, eye strain, and loss of appetite among other obstacles

Working through the solution

The survey helped us formulate programs that would help employees feel better physically, and emotionally. Ensuring the focus was on overall physical and mental well-being, we introduced our leaders to an integrated yogic practice called “Dinacharya”. This 21-day program focussed on

Pranayama (conscious breathing techniques)

Asana (workouts for physical well-being)

Simple meditative practices and

Sharing tips on clean diet and lifestyle

The intention of this 21-day program was to encourage leaders to realise the health benefits that such a program brings and to ultimately make it a part of their daily routine.

The program had allowed for fluidity to accommodate deadlines and their lives at home. Employees were free to join 30-minute-long online sessions in the morning or evening. Seventy-five of our leaders signed up to the program. Many reported partial or complete relief in the issues they had been dealing with all alone. Some of them even introduced their family members to these programs to reap the benefits of holistic health.

After the first program’s success, we organized another insightful program called “Recode Your Life” for our senior leaders. This program was designed to upgrade the code that determines the way they live and lead; by adding more heart and humanity into the mix and with that, truly grow their inner well-being. This helped further improve their emotional health and many employees continued with the sessions.

The way ahead

At NextWealth, we consider inner wellness to be as important as physical wellness, and we want to drive the message that happy and healthy employees are productive employees. We are glad our initial programs were appreciated and those who attended them found that it positively impacted their lives. While we started these programs to help employees overcome the stress of the pandemic, we have come to learn that its benefits go way beyond relieving us from the pandemic stress.