Often the signs are there earlier. Professionals with weeks of unused leave. People who take on an almost excessive sense of responsibility. Always there for others, but never asking for help themselves. You see them gradually becoming more tired. Digging in even harder. Withdrawing socially. Becoming more easily irritated. Because they are used to solving problems with their minds, they keep going a little longer. Until the body finally draws the line and sick leave becomes unavoidable. What they need is not more knowledge or willpower. They need to learn how to read their bodies, so they can adjust earlier and continue functioning in a more sustainable way.
Sustainable employability within your organization
Regulation as antidote to sick leave
Employees who excel in knowledge-intensive organisations often spend more time in their heads, working on complex problems, than in their bodies. Sick leave in these cases is not a lack of motivation, but the result of high-performing professionals pushing past their limits for too long without noticing.
Failure is not about willpower, but about resilience
Prevent rather than cure?
Then it helps to gain insight into how to read and support the nervous system of your employees. Lichaamsvragen (Body Inquiry) helps you to look at your company through a body-oriented lens, to reveal the pitfalls you easily miss with a purely cognitive view.
PREVENTING SICK LEAVE, SUPPORTING VITALITY
Reducing sick leave: not only the right mind, but the right body in the right place
People are often selected for their cognitive abilities: their talents and their capabilities. But every highly specialised mind comes with a body. That body — and its nervous system — plays an important role in how someone functions at work. Taking this into account in recruitment, organisational processes, management and leadership helps create the conditions for people to remain resilient, healthy and sustainably employable.
Step 1. Recruitment
Sustainable selection
Don’t just select a brain, but also a nervous system that can function sustainably within your organisation. What does your company ask of people’s nervous systems, and which candidates are truly a good fit? And how do you recognise them during recruitment? I help you analyse this and train your recruiters to ask the right questions.
Step 2. Management
Sustainable employability and vitality
Caring for both brain and body is essential for long-term employability and vitality. What kind of environment do you create for the whole person within your organisation, so people can truly flourish? And how do you support employees in areas where the work itself cannot provide what they need? I help you identify opportunities for sustainable, body-aware organisational design and train your people to recognise the right signals
Step 3. HR and leaders
Early recognition of declining resilience
How do you maintain safety when someone in your organisation begins to struggle? How do you recognise early signs that someone may be heading towards burnout or absence? A loss of resilience does not have to lead to sick leave. Together we explore which stabilising interventions you can offer in time.
Step 4. Occupational health
Restoring resilience and reintegration
When an employee is no longer able to work, more talking is not always the solution. When resilience is depleted, recovery often begins with learning to recognise and respond to the signals of the body. Do you know how to recognise what a body needs — and how to support it? I can teach you. Prefer to outsource it? Ask about a clear and practical tailored programme.
Regulation as return:
✔ Shorter absence time
✔ Less relapse
✔ Higher sustainable employability
✔ Better stress resilience
✔ Retention of specialized talent
Who came before you?
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