Michigan Business Beat | Mark Ostach 3 Strategies for Employers to Follow in 2022

Jeffrey Mosher catches up once again with Mark Ostach, a Digital Wellness Author and Expert with Mark Ostach (his company and brand), Beverly Hills, Michigan Digital Wellness author and expert Mark Ostach works with organizations in Mid- Michigan, across the state of Michigan and in the U.S > to connect in a hybrid workplace. We've had you on previously last spring and summer, and now into 2022 it was a fitting time to reconnect. A surge of the omicron variant that causes the COVID-19 infection is disrupting the workplace once again. Digital Wellness expert Mark Ostach says employers need to continue to extend patience, encourage wellbeing measures, and flex with purpose. According to Ostach, there are 3 strategies for employers to follow to help cope with the ambiguous covid situation today in the workplace: Providing support for managers so they can spend less time worried about people working and more time keeping them connected through creative measures like virtual team building and thoughtful icebreaker activities to help break up the transactional nature of daily meetings Check in with employees on a regular basis to see how they are feeling and how you can support them. People who feel supported are less likely to feel overwhelmed. Oftentimes, just letting them know you are here for support, removes obstacles that they are working all alone. (How would you) Encourage wellness practices by modeling them yourself. It’s one thing to point to wellness policies and another thing to practice them during the work day. If you can show your staff how to live out wellness practices, they have more permission to do them as well. » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN’s YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNX… » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/