Workplace Health Management: Retaining Skilled Employees
The qualifications are right, but there are interpersonal issues within the team, among managers, or with individual employees. Now what?
Termination — followed be yet another, often lengthy recruitment process, a new probation period and onboarding, all just based on the hope that this time it may work out? Or is there another way?
Counselling can offer a valuable opportunity to support employees one-on-one as they work through interpersonal challenges in the workplace or personal life crises — helping to retain their professional skills within the organisation.
Workplace Health Promotion
Does this sound familiar?
- A highly skilled employee repeatedly clashes with colleagues during the probation period because they ignore guidelines and team agreements.
- There are increasing complaints about the communication style of a long-standing manager and difficulties in interacting with them.
- An employee struggles to settle into her new role and be productive after a team or company restructure.
- An employee relocated specifically for the job. Everything started off well, but over the past few months he’s become increasingly withdrawn from the team and his performance is declining. Something may have happened in his personal life or at work—but no one can seem to reach him.
- A valued colleague is constantly giving 110% —and is now on the verge of burnout.
Situations like these are difficult for everyone involved. They cost emotional energy, time, and ultimately money. Sometimes it’s a simple matter of personalities not aligning — but often there are solvable causes behind issues like adjustment difficulties, repeated emotional outbursts, ignoring team protocols, or inappropriate communication.
Counselling, as part of Workplace Health Management (WHM), can offer a way to retain valuable staff and foster a healthier work environment.
The benefits of a strong workplace health management strategy are clear:
- Healthy and high-performing employees;
- Fewer absences and less production downtime;
- A more positive work environment, increased participation, and stronger motivation;
- Greater productivity and higher quality;
- Employees remain loyal and committed;
- Improved employer reputation and attractiveness.
When thinking of WHM, many consider flexible working hours, yoga or meditation courses or company sports programmes. By offering individual counselling, you can also actively support the emotional wellbeing of your staff — boosting resilience, performance and workplace harmony.
It doesn’t always have to come down to termination — especially at a time when skilled professionals are hard to find and recruitment is time-consuming and costly.
Company offer
Step 1
from 120 €*
- A confidential, 60-minute initial consultation with the commissioning party to understand the issue from their perspective and to assess whether counselling could be an appropriate measure.
- Together, we will determine whether collaboration with me is a good fit and discuss the next steps.
Counselling only makes sense if this type of support is genuinely wanted and accepted. No one can – or should – be forced into it. We can discuss how to explain the support offer to your employee or whether I should join the conversation if there are concerns that there may be negative, defensive reactions towards the offer initially.
Step 2
from 120 €*
- A confidential, 60-minute initial consultation with the potential client to understand the issue from their perspective and to assess whether counselling could be an appropriate measure.
- Discussion of goals and the next steps moving forward.
The conversation is entirely confidential, no information will be shared. It is solely up to the client to decide whether they wish to accept the employer’s offer of 12 additional counselling sessions.
No further explanation is required. A simple “yes” or “no” after this first consultation session is enough.
Step 3
from 1.560 €*
- 12 weekly counselling sessions
- 60 minutes each
- 100 % confidential
- Joint final session with the client and the commissioning party to support reintegration into the work environment.
* = The prices are exclusive of VAT and travel expenses (working hours plus a mileage allowance/train tickets, accomodation, etc.). Online sessions are possible and incur no additional costs.