Prioritising Employee Wellbeing: How The Walters Method Supports Your ESG and Business Goals
Prioritising Employee Wellbeing: How The Walters Method Supports Your ESG and Business Goals
1 April 2025
As organisations strive to meet their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives, investing in mental health and employee support has become a critical component of the “Social” pillar. The Walters Method (TWM) is an ESGmark® Certified company that can help you build a supportive, inclusive culture where employees feel valued, work collaboratively, and have access to support for personal and professional challenges.
What are the business benefits of investing in workplace wellbeing?
Prioritising your team’s wellbeing isn’t just about doing the right thing—it’s about driving business results, boosting employee retention, and enhancing overall performance. By fostering a workplace culture that prioritises mental health, your company can:
· Demonstrate a commitment to social responsibility: Proactively addressing stress, burnout, and emotional health shows you care about the people behind the business, strengthening your company’s reputation and ESG credibility.
· Enhance employee engagement and productivity: Teams that feel supported are more motivated, creative, and effective—reducing absenteeism and presenteeism (Wellhub, 2024).
· Improve talent retention and attraction: Companies that offer meaningful mental health support are more likely to attract and retain top talent (Forrester Consulting, 2021).
· Reduce costs related to stress-related absences: With stress being a leading cause of absenteeism (CIPD, 2023), providing support reduces lost working hours and associated costs.
How can The Walters Method help?
Beyond surface-level wellness perks, The Walters Method (TWM) can help your organisation to create a truly supportive culture with access to professional support and practical tools for tackling personal and work-related challenges. TWM teaches employees tools to recover their focus and energy when challenges in their professional or personal life are impacting on their health, wellbeing and ability to engage effectively at work. TWM is an evidence-based toolkit that transforms anxiety to calm confidence, low self-esteem to a solid feeling of self-worth, and negative thinking to self-supporting inner talk.
Results for the individual are often transformative. People feel empowered and clearer on their own values and purpose and that they have the means to support themselves to keep on track even at challenging times. This has a knock-on effect on the team. People will feel more valued, supported and aligned with the ethos of the company and hence more committed. They will be less encumbered by unresolved issues and so will have more to give.
TWM offers organisations both group and individual sessions designed to promote mental health, emotional resilience, and overall wellbeing:
· Team Workshops: a workshop for your team to teach simple exercises for reducing stress and finding healthier ways of dealing with challenges – both inside and outside of work.
· Confidential Individual Coaching: bespoke, confidential individual sessions for your team members that they can access directly when they need them.
Work with TWM to improve workplace wellbeing:
Your organisation can arrange a bank of sessions that your team can access directly and in total confidence. Most companies offer a single session for each employee through a simple booking system so they can select a convenient time and then, if needed, more can be arranged either by the employee directly with TWM Ltd, or through the company.
Contact TWM today to discuss the package that would work best for your team: email contact@thewaltersmethod.co.uk or call 07984115927.
Contact ESGmark® to discuss how we can support your organisation to demonstrate and improve its ESG credentials: email info@esgmark.co.uk or request more information.
Learn more:
CIPD (2023). CIPD | Workplace absences soar to highest level in over a decade, finds new report. [online] CIPD. Available at: https://www.cipd.org/uk/about/press-releases/workplace-absences-highest-over-decade-new-report/.
Forrester Consulting (2021). Shifting Tides: Changing Attitudes About Mental Health Care and the Workplace. [online] Modern Health. Available at: https://join.modernhealth.com/future-of-mental-health-2021-report-forrester.html.
Wellhub (2024). The State of Work-Life Wellness 2024. [online] Wellhub. Available at: https://wellhub.com/en-uk/resources/research/work-life-wellness-report-2024/.