Time to give your employees some TLC?
June 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
Your best people have had a tough time over the last 18 months. They’ve stuck with you, and got on with the job. But they’re not exactly motoring ahead with a full tank. The warning signs of employee burnout are all there: lower productivity, higher levels of absenteeism, a lack of spark and happiness in the office. More deadlines missed. Unhappy clients, unhappy staff. Fresh thinking absent.
You are well aware that your employees need a chance to rediscover their passion for the job, to get back some energy and some motivation, so that they will come back to work refreshed, reinvigorated, and full of new ideas. At the same time, wouldn’t it be nice to find a programme that was cost-effective, didn’t take people out of the office for too long, and recharged your employees while giving them valuable leadership and team-working skills AND helping to meet the company’s social responsibility goals?
More and more people want to have the chance to travel widely, to see new places and meet new people, and to try to make a difference while they are there. Skills Venture makes this possible.
Rather than a conventional short-term volunteering project, where professional people waste their talents by building schools or clinics (much to the bewilderment of the locals), Skills Venture matches each employee with one or more African entrepreneurs, whose needs match the skills and experience of the volunteer.
The volunteer provides practical mentoring support and advice to the entrepreneurs, and helps to grow a business, create more jobs, and so to lift people out of poverty. All in as little as a week. It’s a great way for your employees to rediscover their energy and enthusiasm, while developing themselves and making a real difference into the bargain.
