Often – before the business objective, the mission or the trip – the primary consideration of travelling or deployed personnel is staying connected with the children they love.
Successful businesses and other organizations don’t shy from this reality, they embrace it. Why? Because they know that helping their travelling or deployed personnel stay connected with the children they love when they’re apart is vital to the success of any employee wellness and/or wellbeing initiative and, therefore, to enhancing workforce productivity, strengthening the organization’s bottom line and maximising stakeholder value, while also attracting and retaining the best possible talent. Happy, healthy employees are more effective and deliver greater results. Its not rocket science.
Unfortunately, while businesses and other organizations have been aware of the relationship between organisational performance and helping their personnel stay connected with the children they love, no dedicated providers have existed to help institutions identify and implement solutions. Until now…
On the basis of ConnectedApart’s unique APART Model, ConnectedApart can help you to develop simple, yet effective solutions specifically for your workforce, either to strengthen an existing employee wellness and/or wellbeing initiative or as a standalone offering. To discuss options: contact@connectedapart.com
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