The Importance of Employee Counselling

The Importance of Employee Counselling

Introduction

 Today the latest trend in Corporate HR world is “Employee Counselling at Workplace”. In this competition world there are de-stressed employees in each and every organization. It’s difficult to find a tension free employee in an organization.

Figure 1. By Editorial Staff , 2015 (Source : "way to motivate their employee ",  Editorial Staff  )

Counselling helps the employees to come out from the problems, gives a new way to deal with the problems. Counselling shows how much the employer care for the employee. Counselling may help to identify the employee the work related problems and the poor performance

Organization’s has started Counselling at their office premises to retain the current employees, the talented employees . Organization hires a professional as a counsellor to deal with the following issues:

1. Traumatic Events

2. Relationship Issues

3. Physical Health

4. Personal Stress

5. Emotional Health

6. Bereavement

7. Work Relationship

8. Phobias

9 Family Issues

10. Financial Problems

11. Work Stress

Meaning of Employee Counselling

 Employees face lots of problems in day to day life, they may have problem with their subordinates, colleagues, boss, system of the work or may have problem in personal life.

This problem starts affecting their work, their career and their performance in job. Counselling is like giving advice, sorting out the problems of employees, guiding and helping them for the problem they face in office or in personal life.

Employee counselling is done to bring out a positive result from the de-stressed employee. In simple terms employee counselling is like a stressed person discuss about the problem or about the poor performance and other person consoles and try to sort the problem.

 Why counselling at Office Premises?

Employees face through the stress of completing the targets, work-load, meeting deadlines, relations with subordinates or colleagues, lack of time and higher responsibility.

Counselling helps the employees to come out from the problems, gives a new way to deal with the problems. Counselling shows how much the employer care for the employee.

Counselling may help to identify the employee the work related problems and the poor performance.

Benefits of counselling

1.   Helps employees to tackle with the problems effectively

2.   Employees are able to sort their problems

3.   Helps in decision making

4.   A new way to look at the perspective.

5.   Prevent termination from employer or resignation from employee.

6.   Reduces the cost of hiring new employee and training new staff.

7.   Smooth coordination between employer and employee.

Figure : The Importance of Employee Counselling vedio

Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEXPgPMiTI4

 Conclusion

 At the last employee counselling has a positive impact on the employee’s life as their problems are solved and they start stress free life.

Counselling increases the productivity of employee and the confidence about the work. The corporate world is getting changed and so the HR process also. Counselling not only helps employees but also show how much the organization cares for employees.

References

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