21st January 2020
2020: The Year of the Employee Idea: David Beeney – Breaking the Silence
This content was taken from our latest eBook: ‘2020: The Year of the Employee Idea: Employee Ideas from our global Engagement 101 Influencers’. To download the eBook in full. simply click here.
David Beeney
Founder
Breaking the Silence
My client Wave introduced Menopause Awareness Training as a direct response of two employees suggesting it was desperately needed and it has tangibly helped to improve employee engagement at Wave.
One was an employee who was having a very bad experience of menopause. It was affecting her confidence so badly that she was thinking of resigning and flagged this to Jane Austin the HR Director. She hadn’t found anywhere to really find out about menopause and wondered would Wave consider doing some awareness training for their employees. Another employee emailed Jane to say that Wave do so many things on wellbeing but she was struggling so much with menopause that it was hard to be in work and she wondered if they could introduce menopause awareness training. As a direct consequence of these two employee ideas, Jane began her search for something that was right and found the great Sharon MacArthur.
Jane would not have implemented this training without these two employees coming forward and Wave has gone on to provide many sessions for their staff. The feedback has been incredible from their employees – with women saying it has helped them feel so much better and more engaged in work – for two reasons; firstly that it was helping them manage their symptoms but secondly that they felt listened to in work and so appreciative of the support.
Yet the unexpected outcome has been one male employee who was staying away from home on the day he went to the training and he rang his wife and apologised for not really understanding what she’d been going through in the last six months, and a young female employee in Peterborough who said that her mum was going through it and as a result of the awareness she’d talked to her mum about it which resulted in the mum joining the Facebook awareness and support group and her going to see her GP for help.
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This content was taken from our latest eBook: ‘2020: The Year of the Employee Idea: Employee Ideas from our global Engagement 101 Influencers’. To download the eBook in full. simply click here.