At the heart of every successful organization are employees who are focused and working at full productivity.  They are your organization’s most important asset. But in today's complex world, there are many issues that are bogging your workers down and putting a drag on their productivity and effectiveness.

In any given year, one in five employees will experience a significant and disruptive life problem that diminishes their productivity – problems such as substance abuse, depression, grief, or divorce.

But it's not always life's major problems that cause work disruption – sometimes just the stress of balancing work, life, and family issues can throw a good worker off kilter. At any given time, a full half of your work force will be coping with life or family issues that they carry to the job. Even your best workers can be faced with the challenge of being a caregiver, becoming burdened with debt or caught in the mortgage crisis, dealing with a health issue, or stressed by the family issues created by both parents working.

And as if all that’s not enough, smoking, poor nutrition habits, lack of exercise, and obesity are causing unnecessary disease and disability in your work force, and adding to your already overtaxed healthcare costs.

Together, these new and complex factors conspire to diminish the quality of your employees' lives, detract from your productivity, and increase your overall costs. 

In the past, employers could look to their EAP for help with troubled employees. But the traditional EAPs of the past simply don’t offer all the resources required to meet the complex needs of today’s employees.

But there is one organization providing real life solutions, not just for some but for all your employee issues - solutions that improve your employees’ lives and reduce costs for your organization.

An EAP with more benefits for your employees

Introducing ESI Employee Assistance Group, the EAP that provides more ― more benefits for your employees to address the issues which they face and more services for your managers to tackle the costly human resource issues in your organization.

ESI delivers more benefits, more services, and better results than any other EAP.  If you don’t have an EAP, we will help solve your employee issues. And if you do have an EAP, take a hard look at what it's doing for your bottom line. If your EAP isn't improving your productivity and reducing your costs, you may want to consider ESI.  

First, take a look at the extensive services we offer to your employees. ESI delivers expert counseling assistance and a broad array of other services, tools, assessments, information, and videos designed to provide comprehensive solutions for virtually every problem your employees face.

§  For those employees who face significant personal problems, we provide 24 hour counseling and a network of over 25,000 private practice counselors located throughout the US and Canada.  Plus, we offer support information for any challenges they face. 

§  Whatever the life issue, we have a solution. For those facing debt and mortgage issues, we offer financial counseling and legal assistance;

§  For those with aging parents, we offer specialized caregiver resources that includes counseling, and assistance in finding local elder-care services;

§  For those juggling work and family, we offer personal development programs and stress counseling.

§  Parents can find an array of services to help with their children, from locating daycare to dealing with complex issues of a special needs child or getting assistance and counseling for those who wish to adopt a child.

§  There are counseling and planning services with certified professional financial counselors who can help with retirement or college savings.

§  We even have specialized pet care services for the 50 percent of your workers who have a pet!

§  And for those who need to lose weight, stop smoking or get fit, we offer a comprehensive wellness program that helps your employees identify their specific wellness needs and then provides the services to help them improve their lives…and reduce your health cost.

Because we know it's not just the major issues that distract your employees, we help your employees to find solutions for everyday issues. Your employees can call or email a Personal Assistant for help on virtually any subject. Whether developing list of potential college scholarship sources, finding summer camp options for a child, or locating a trainer for a disobedient dog, we are only an e-mail or a phone call away.

ESI offers more employee benefits and solutions for your employees.  No other EAP comes close to delivering this level of benefits and services.  And no other EAP achieves our results.

Our utilization rates are double those of a traditional EAP and our broad range of solutions results in higher employee satisfaction. Nearly 99 percent of those who use our services report that they are satisfied with the help they get.

The EAP with more services for your H.R. managers and supervisors

Helping your employees is only one part of the equation – there's more.

ESI also provides an extensive menu of services to assist your managers and supervisors deal more effectively with people and productivity matters. We are the only EAP to maintain SPHR consultants to assist with critical human resource issues.

Our administrative referral program has proven effective in bolstering your retention by resolving issues and rehabilitating employees who have developed severe performance problems. And should your organization face a trauma, our specialized counselors are available to assist during crisis situations.

But we also provide your management team with an array of services designed to head off any problems before they can occur. To help you identify the best prospective employees, we offer specially discounted pre-employment screening. Plus, we can help you to create a drug free workplace; if your organization is regulated by the Department of Transportation, we offer comprehensive DOT approved compliance training and assistance.

And to ensure that your supervisors are fully versed in compliance duties, we offer an entire menu of online compliance training that has been certified by the Society of Human Resource Management for continuing education credit. Plus, our acclaimed Management Academy provides the trainings to assist your managers and supervisors develop the skills they need to deal more effectively with human resource issues facing your organization.

Cost reduction, quality, and satisfaction

The bottom line is that no other EAP comes close to offering the depth and breadth of benefits offered by ESI.  And no other EAP gets better results in improving productivity, reducing costs, and achieving member satisfaction.

Whether you're looking for your first EAP or looking to replace a program that isn't getting the results that it should, ESI can help you. Visit our website or request a quote to learn more about the better benefits and services you could be providing to your employees and your managers.

From ESI Employee Assistance Group