Why Have a faith based Marriage Coaching Benefit for Employees?
Employees in healthy relationships are more productive than those in unhealthy relationships and productivity affects your bottom-line. How to Get Started
Brief Facts
As an employer you deal with a lot of issues, but having motivated and productive employees should not have to be one of them. Marital issues lead to:
Higher absenteeism
Higher absenteeism and even more damaging presenteeism (present, but not productive).
Disrupts productivity
Divorce, which can disrupt productivity of a worker for as long as three years. The year following divorce, employees lost an average of four weeks.
Reduction in productivity
A reduction in productivity estimated to be a huge 40%, and it continues for up to one-year after a divorce where productivity remains down by 20%.
Higher turnover
Higher turnover. In one study, 9% of employees either had to leave their jobs as a result of divorce or separation, or knew a colleague who had.
Lower health
Divorcing individuals on average reported lower health, poorer job performance and a more negative mood at work. Nearly 44% of those going through a divorce agreed or strongly agreed that being in the process of a divorce had a negative impact on their work.
Higher rates of mortality
Even years after their divorce, men and women suffer higher rates of mortality, depression, illness in general, and substance abuse than do married people [all factors negatively affecting productivity]
Poor Mental Health
A critical review of the literature found 38 relevant studies with clear evidence that poor mental health (mostly measured as depression and/or anxiety) was associated with lost productivity (i.e., absenteeism and presenteeism).
What You Can Do?
- ZOffer a marriage coaching program as a low cost benefit and reimburse the cost when the employee completes coaching. We believe it is important for couples to have some “skin in the game.” Coaching is also a great enrichment tool.
- ZRefer couples you know who could benefit from marriage coaching.
- ZProvide information to employees about the availability of marriage coaching.
Marriage Coaching – An Affordable Solution with Exceptional Results
- 89% of the couples who were considering divorce before coaching were no longer considering divorce after coaching.
- Distressed couples report an average improvement over 100% after coaching (marriage is twice as good as it was)
- Distressed couples rate their coaching experience a 9.1 with 10 being the best.
- 86% of couples said the experience greatly exceeded or exceeded their expectations.
- Coaching is typically 10 weekly, 2+ hour sessions, at a cost of $30/hour.
- 9 out of 10 couples would recommend MarriageTeam coaching to another couple.
Introducing MarriageTeam as a Benefit
Business identifies MarriageTeam coaching as one of the benefits available for continuing marital growth or restoration. Options for consideration include:
- Give HR, Managers, and employees material on marriage coaching (one-page fact sheet, cards, or other brochures to be provided by MarriageTeam).
- Make the information available to all employees (www.marriageteam.org)
- Announce an addition to the care program in a newsletter (electronic or paper) and include a link to get additional information with info in subsequent newsletters.
- Add information and links to the appropriate employee page on the website.
- Put posters and brochures in break areas so people could pick them up when needed. (we provide)
- Provide MarriageTeam cards to managers and supervisors to hand out as needed. (we provide)
- Offer to pay some or all of the coaching cost once the couple completes coaching. That way the employee has skin in the game.
Employer Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the process for accessing services?
What is the process for accessing services?
- Employee completes the intake process online or calls 360 450-6042.
- MarriageTeam explains the program and completes financial arrangements.
o There is a one-time fee of $599 for coaching services.
o This is for 10-12 sessions that are 2+ hours (20-30 hours which is $20-30/hr).
o Money back guarantee that says if your coaching experience did not meet your expectations, we will refund everything but the inventory and materials.
- Once the intake is complete, MarriageTeam assigns coaches & monitors progress.
- MarriageTeam supports its coaches for the best possible couple outcome.
- MarriageTeam will respond promptly to concerns of the couple or business owner.
- Business can choose to reimburse the employee after completing the program.
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How does divorce hurt productivity?
Numerous studies confirm that divorce impacts productivity before and after the actual divorce.