All of us experience personal problems at one time or another. When severe and distracting, personal problems interfere with our happiness, but they can also negatively affect our productivity on the job.
Personal problems can interfere with attendance or make us late for work. They can alter our behavior in undesirable ways, affect our attitude, cause us to be careless, increase our personal risk on the job, and adversely affect our decisions, demeanor, and interactions with others.
For these reasons, and because employees are every organization's most valuable resource, your employer has established an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
An EAP is a structured approach for helping employees and their families identify and resolve personal problems and concerns that may affect job performance. These problems and concerns may include emotional and psychiatric problems, alcohol and other drug-related problems, marriage and family problems, financial and legal problems, interpersonal conflicts at work, stress, vocational issues----almost any personal concern.
- Employee assistance professionals are specially trained and experienced at listening, asking the right questions, gathering the correct information, and helping you decide the best course of action to take to resolve the issue or difficulty you face.
It's True! When you meet with an employee assistance professional, he or she will greet you, set you at ease, listen, and help clarify the problem that brought you to the EAP. He or she will then discuss options for resolving the problem or issue and formulate a plan of action most likely to help you.
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