Why Is It Time for the "Harmony Is Inside You" Tendency?

 Posted on May 03, 2024 in Business Coaching

Point A or Current Tendency in a Professional Environment

A professional environment encompasses different organizations with different lines of business (e.g., law firms, banks, medical centers, educational institutions, and more). However, professionals (e.g., lawyers, bankers, physicians, professors, corporate executives, private equity experts, etc.) are the ones who directly perform services, not organizations. And professionals define the climate of the organization in which they operate. In fact, in many ways, an organization is its professionals:

But as statistics and many other sources tell us, many professionals today have behavioral, psychological, or physical issues. For example, one influential recent study of lawyers reports that—among 12,825 American licensed, employed attorneys surveyed—"substantial rates of behavioral health problems were found:"

• 20.6% screened positive for "hazardous, harmful, and potentially alcohol-dependent drinking"
• 28% reported experiencing symptoms of depression
• 19% reported symptoms of anxiety
• 23% reported symptoms of stress.

Numbers like these should be a warning that many professionals are not on top of their well-being, i.e., are out of harmony. Indeed, an existing professional environment has a tendency for the out-of-harmony professionals to outnumber those in harmony.

As a result, regardless of professional role (i.e., Client, Employee, or Employer), we are forced to tolerate deleterious features of an existing professional environment that are common side effects of that tendency.

For example, rude and disrespectful behavior patterns from out-of-harmony professionals are widely tolerated, resulting in low morale and unwillingness to make organizational changes. There are many other deleterious features of an existing environment that professionals can recall from their own experiences.

These deleterious features have multiple consequences:

• as a Client, you receive service generated in an existing environment with its deleterious features. Ask yourself: Can you still receive high-quality service from an out-of-harmony professional?
• as an Employee, your well-being might be jeopardized because you are part of an existing environment with its deleterious features. Can you still deliver high-quality service?
• as an Employer, you provide service generated in an existing environment with its deleterious features. Can you still provide high-quality service performed by out-of-harmony professionals?

As these examples illustrate, we professionals have a shared interest in being a part of a productive professional environment that avoids the deleterious features of an existing environment, features that decrease productivity and impose needless costs on all professionals involved.

Why, then, are organizations still operating with their deleterious features, even though many helping resources are available and organizational policies constantly change in trying to address the problem? Apparently, simply having a yoga room or liberal vacation policies is not enough to avoid the deleterious features of an existing environment.

Point B or Desired Result: Shifting to a New Tendency (i.e., the "Harmony is Inside You" Tendency)

With this goal, the "Harmony is Inside You" tendency takes its starting point. The course "Harmony is Inside You: A strategic plan for sustaining harmony over the long run in a professional environment" is a unique course that applies knowledge on how to think strategically to the well-being of professionals. By building individual professionals' strategic plans for "Harmony is Inside You," a team of professionals can apply the power of strategy to their well-being. They can build the resilience, confidence, and motivation necessary for achieving professional and other life goals with high professional productivity.

Professionals with high well-being = business productivity = business growth

Let's create a trend for all professionals to be on top of their well-being in the long run!

Together, we can build a productive professional environment without the deleterious features of an existing environment.

Comments are invited at info@menteeinsight.com.

Best,

Katsiaryna Zinavenka

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