Finding your Groov
Companies are searching for ways to retain and attract employees – and keep them happy. An innovative workplace wellbeing platform offers a suite of supportive solutions.
Talent retention is a hot topic for leaders across all industries, particularly in the wake of the pandemic shake-up.
There are sobering findings in new research conducted by antipodean workplace wellbeing platform Groov. In a survey of 1240 Australians and New Zealanders, Groov found that 37 per cent think about leaving their workplace at least once a week, with 20 per cent saying that they don’t feel their overall wellbeing is supported by their employer. Of those, 55 per cent consider quitting several times a week and 36 per cent say they have that feeling most days.
It’s a clear signal that companies of every size and stripe ignore workplace wellbeing at their peril.
“Money is important but people also want to feel valued, cared for and treated with dignity,” says Adam Clark, Groov co-founder and CEO. “If workforces don’t provide this support then they lose people – and the top performers and high potentials leave first.”
Groov draws on cutting-edge mental-health research to help Australian and New Zealand businesses transform their culture. “If you take the time to bake wellbeing into the workplace properly, the current issues around talent retention, recruitment, stress and burnout will hugely decrease or disappear,” says Groov’s other co-founder, All Blacks great Sir John Kirwan, who revealed his mental-health struggles after he retired from rugby union.
Behavioural change expert Dr Fiona Crichton leads the Groov clinical team.
She and Kirwan talked to thousands of workers and leaders about what they needed. “Groov is a platform that makes mental wellbeing easy to consume and deliver across an organisation,” she says.
Using Groov’s step-by-step playbook, the platform works across the organisational, leadership and individual levels. It enables companies of all sizes to tailor a mental wellbeing program that meets the needs of their organisation and their employees. The playbook helps each company build their program, rolling out modules and wellbeing rituals to staff, who also have access to the Groov app for individual wellbeing tools.
Companies partnering with Groov include Cisco, the NSW Department of Planning and Environment, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Fletcher Building in Australia.
Following an initial roll-out to their global IoT team, Cisco is now expanding Groov to sectors of its 20,000-strong global sales team.
“Our team’s performance is out of this world; we’ve had 18 consecutive quarters of growth and we have one of the lowest attrition rates in the wider sales and IT industries, sitting at around 2 per cent,” says Dave Wilson, managing director, IoT Global Sales, at Cisco.
“That’s not by chance. Our results are directly linked to our commitment to developing our people, looking after them and creating an environment where they feel valued.
“Businesses used to talk about wellbeing impacting performance and how results would follow. We’re on the other side of that journey and I can say that results did follow.”
Dr Crichton says that more than ever, people are speaking up about the importance of mental wellbeing in the workplace. “There is a generation who wants balance in their life and wellbeing to be a priority for their employers. If it’s not, they’ll be out the door to somewhere that does.”
Find out more and get a free information pack at groovnow.com