How Red Umbrella Supports the Needs of Large Businesses
When it comes to supporting employees’ mental health, there are unique challenges for large businesses.
When it comes to supporting employees’ mental health, there are unique challenges for large businesses that might make offering the right resources much more challenging.
Safeguarding employees' wellbeing holistically requires a strategic approach capable of catering to the highly varied needs of a large and diverse workforce, sometimes distributed across the globe.
Having worked with a number of large businesses to help them devise effective wellbeing support strategies, Red Umbrella has the tools and expertise required to guide large organisations through the challenges.
What are the main employee wellbeing related challenges for large businesses?
Creating a supportive and inclusive environment
Creating a supportive and inclusive culture that prioritises mental health and aims to reduce stigma can prove to be difficult in large organisations, where circumstances may vary significantly across different departments and regions.
It is vital that all directors, managers, and HR teams are willing and able to provide adequate support to their teams regardless of these differences, helping build a culture of solidarity and ensuring harmony and unity across the organisation. This starts with ensuring all key stakeholders receive the right level of awareness training, equipping them with the knowledge needed to contribute to this key objective.
Remote and global workforces
Although the world has become accustomed to a new way of working, with more and more businesses moving towards hybrid or remote models, there are nevertheless challenges pertaining to supporting employees that work remotely. For these individuals, work-life balance may be more difficult, and some may feel isolated or disconnected, amongst other issues.
Large businesses are also more likely to have teams working in different parts of the world, creating potential communication and coordination challenges, making it more difficult to build trust between team members, and potentially giving rise to issues related to cultural differences.
Awareness and utilisation of resources
Within a large organisation, promoting the existence of wellbeing support resources and ensuring these are easily accessible to all employees may be a challenge, particularly in the case of multinational companies.
For instance, the availability of mental health resources and EAPs should be promoted to new employees as part of the onboarding process, preventing them from mistakenly believing there may not be any support in place. Additionally, employees should be actively encouraged to make use of available resources, meaning they should be aware of what these entail and how they work. It is instrumental that this type of information doesn’t get lost in the noise, which might be more likely within large organisations with pressing deadlines and targets.
Personalisation challenges
With large businesses having highly diverse workforces comprising individuals from different backgrounds and age groups, providing the right support systems becomes even more challenging.
Each employee may have unique needs that require nurturing through the right resources, and when there are hundreds or thousands of employees within a company, ensuring that each and every employee has access to the support they need becomes extremely difficult.
How does Red Umbrella guide large businesses through these challenges?
Mental health training at all levels
When it comes to providing mental health training within a large organisation, it is vital that this is differentiated to suit the needs of different teams. Red Umbrella provides a wide range of mental health training courses, ensuring this is taken into account.
Mental health awareness training, for instance, can be beneficial for the entire workforce, helping increase awareness of the importance of mental wellbeing in the workplace, educate individuals, reduce stigma, and ensure alignment within the business.
There are other types of training, however, that are pivotal for management and HR teams, ensuring those in leadership and other key positions are equipped with the tools needed to support their teams’ mental wellbeing and assist in the event of a crisis.
E-learning, webinars and online resources
Large, multinational companies have teams that are spread across several territories, making it vital that mental health resources can be accessed virtually, from anywhere.
Through the provision of webinars, e-learning resources and online training, large businesses can take care of their employees’ needs while ensuring a unified approach to mental wellbeing support.
Red Umbrella offers a plethora of different delivery modes for large organisations, as well as tailoring this offering to be specific to the business’ industry and the issues it may be experiencing at that point in time.
Mental health consultancy
Mental health consultancy plays a crucial role in helping large organisations develop and implement mental health policies that benefit both employees and the business as a whole. Even large organisations with a wealth of resources and tools at their disposal may not know where to start, and being able to rely on experts in the field is of fundamental importance.
As part of our mental health consultancy services, we advise businesses on what to consider from a people and culture perspective, what mental health policies to adopt and how to introduce them, as well as how to embed mental health into business culture, ensuring it becomes an intrinsic component.
Bespoke, flexible solutions
Catering to the varied and ever-evolving needs of large organisations with lots of moving parts requires an entirely bespoke and flexible approach.
To do this effectively, Red Umbrella starts by building an understanding of a business’s needs and objectives, specific issues and gaps, circumstances that are likely to arise or develop, and from there, create a plan that targets key areas effectively. As part of this approach, we aim to build a robust ongoing relationship with the business that allows us to continue to adapt our solutions as the business and its requirements evolve over time.
Do you have any questions regarding our services and the industries we work with? Reach out to the team through our contact page and we’ll be more than happy to advise you.
