I’m a compulsive analyzer.  I will take a persons words that were said during meetings into my analytical mind and dissect people’s breathing patterns and hypothesize how their exhale meant a different message than words that were actual said. From there I will put together 6 maybe 7 conceptual ideas of how to handle said hypothesis and run those concepts through a beat down in my brain.  My wife can’t stand it, and she says I am in the wrong field of work, I should be more like that guy on the hit show “Lie to me”.

This anaylitcal curse gift, makes me a fantastic CEO and I’m quite positive gives me some sort of super-human sales representative “aurora” value-add, that others may not have. With the current H1N1 paranoia running rampant through the world, I decided to put my analytical curse gift to good work by working with our health &safety committee to ensure we mitigate and potentially eliminate, the spread of H1N1 throughout our workplace.

In all seriousness, we have opted as an organization to focus inward on our employee satisfaction throughout this flu season. Certainly we want to protect our employees and customers, but we also want to manage the perceptions of those that work for us as well.   It’s clear that employee satisfaction has a direct correlation on customer satisfaction, therby we feel that by managing employee perceptions that they: “must come to work even when sick for fear of losing their jobs due to truancy” or “must send their child to school sick due to fear of using too many sick days” ultimatley from the top providing them the clear message that those perceptions are in fact false, will allow them to take a deep breath and follow our Flu Season protocol this year.

Are we managing and looking for potential rogue behavior that may take advantage of our new leanancy to sick days? Absolutely.  In the end though, our employees are starting to feel that we support them, rather than the feeling that HR is running down the halls with clipboards to stroke off another missed day of work.

Our current priority is employee wellness and by focusing on that with flu protocols, we are able to better serve our clients through happier employees.

In case you are wondering, here are a few of our published protocols for staff which must be adheared to this flu season:

-At first sign of symptoms employees are not to report to the office, or immedialtey remove themselves from the work place.

-Sanitization stations have been installed within the office building

-Every employee has been provided their own hand sanitizers for their desk

-In the event of an H1N1 confirmed case, the entire office is sanitized

-Employees are required to stay home for an additional 24 hour period after symptoms and fever have been 100% cleared

I hope this helps bring light to what we are doing here at Vital Insight Group, now if you excuse me my analytical mind is beginning to wonder why I feel slightly warm and fluey now that I have written about flu symptoms.

What are you doing to ensure optimal workplace efficiency along with preparedness for this years flu season?