Yesterday in the Observatorio de RH, we read that registration for the Healthy Company Awards remains open until September 15th. Almost two years ago, we explained our perspective on well-being at work and how to go beyond being a healthy company. Today, given what we are experiencing and sharing, we bring you the keys to a renewed outlook based on optimism and trust.
First, I must recover my “Smart & Calm” state
I heard Deepak Chopra explain this, and I understood the reason behind this phrase: a positive mind is a turbulent mind most of the time. This is because it is a mind in conflict with its negative thoughts. It struggles to introduce positive elements to bring happiness and well-being, even if only for a limited time.
Today, people’s demands involve integrating quality of life elements that allow them to grow exponentially and be SMART as individuals and organizations:
And how do you achieve a calm mind and a SMART organization?
By practicing self-observation and noticing how external events impact our inner state. This is the first dimension of Salutogénesis: the Comprehensibility of the SOC (A. Antonovsky, 1979).
Remember that Salutogénesis, the ability to trust life and focus on what generates health, can be learned. Working for your own health ensures individual sustainability as a complete human being (and from this, the sustainability of the healthy company is implicitly derived).
It all starts with developing a respectful and quiet outlook on our reality and that of every living being. A broad and neutral perspective that seeks to understand rather than interfere with the flow of life. This outlook focuses on what truly matters for growth: the holistic well-being of people, rather than mere economic growth.
From a Calm Mind to Survival
We are entering a critical post-Covid phase that is both complex and simple. It is complex to manage, yet simple to understand if we apply a renewed outlook driven by the purpose that guides us and gives us meaning.
In this new phase, we must give the best of our actions and our being. We must ensure that people no longer suffer for the sake of organizational economic growth. There are no sustainable organizations if we do not care for and sustain our people. There is no healthy company without this care.
It is simple because it is about making room for well-being and human development. Both go hand in hand. It is vital to reunite what has always been connected: human beings are happy and grow in well-being, health, and quality of life as they develop and reach their full potential.
From Surviving to Living, Fully
We cannot leave this potential undeveloped. We lose health and well-being if we do not contribute to what gives us meaning and helps us grow as humans.
In 1991, RUUT VEENHOVEN created the Happy Life Expectancy (HLE). This is a simple indicator that combines a subjective measure—life satisfaction—with an objective measure of quality of life based on outputs. In one of his publications, Veenhoven states:
To this end, several multidimensional indexes have been proposed. In addition to economic performance, these also recognize a country’s success in areas such as schooling and social equality. The most current indicator of this type is the Human Development Index. In this approach, quality of life is measured by inputs, such as the extent to which society provides conditions considered beneficial beforehand.
The basic problem is that we never truly know to what extent these valued provisions are actually good for people. An alternative is to measure the quality of life of nations by outcomes, considering how well people grow and develop in that country. This quality of life can be measured by the degree to which citizens live long and happy lives. This concept is made operational by combining estimates based on life expectancy records with survey data on the subjective appreciation of life.
We Are Talking About Quality of Life AND Human and Economic Growth
The 2019 human development reports by the United Nations Human Development Programme team already highlighted the need to refocus and reorient our systems and organizations, given the visible inequalities. Covid-19 has arrived in our lives, leaving its mark not only on our health, self-care habits, communication, and well-being, but also bringing economic and social impacts.
Uncertainty and change are the coordinates of this new daily roadmap we navigate. In these turbulent waters, the only thing that will make us strong and capable of gaining health and quality of life is our will to endure. If you look closely, this can only happen by investing in our development as human beings. This becomes a top priority for a healthy company.
If you are not satisfied with just surviving and want to truly live. If you want more than just 4 tips or 5 keys to enjoy and gain quality of life at work. If you commit to your health from its origin—meaning taking the journey from within—this is a moment of massive expansion. It is our chance to become who we truly are and leave the legacy we deserve to live.
No one else can do this for you. You only need to commit to improving your quality of life. Explore everything we have developed for you here, now also available online.
