The manager's toolbox
Many managers are faced with challenges on a daily basis that can lead to stress and put pressure on themselves and their employees. With the Manager’s Toolbox, we want to ease the managers’ day-to-day working lives and promote good health and a work-life balance. The toolbox provides concrete solutions to everyday situations, such as managing sickness absence, handling changes in the workplace and preventing stress and poor well-being. As an add-on product, you can book a workshop or presentation by leading specialists in the field. Reach out to your Danica contact to learn more about the different add-ons.
Working life
New at work
Help your young employees get the best start to their working lives. The young people entering the labour market these years are called Generation Z, or Gen Z for short, the first generation of digital natives. In our experience, companies that actively plan how to best support their new young employees have a strategic advantage when it comes to attracting and motivating the talents of the future. This is why we have developed this plan and provide tips on how to be a leader to young employees.
Late career
The workplace culture is essential to a good working life – this also applies to seniors. It is therefore important that management discusses what the late career of seniors should be like. We have compiled some tips and examples which may be useful for you as a manager and the seniors in your team.
Well-being during periods of change
At a time of turbulence and uncertainty, the role of the manager is crucial in leading employees safely through change. This concept is designed to empower managers in this important task.
Health and well-being
Active breaks
Many experience physical problems that may be due to sedentary work. Did you know that a few simple changes can help reduce these problems? Here you will find tips on how you and your employees can incorporate more movement in your working day.
Mental breaks
Our aim is to help companies create the right conditions for enhancing their employees’ focus, balance and mental strength. Just ten minutes of mental training each day is enough.
HealthTech balance
Achieving mental strength in a digital world. In collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, we have developed a number of tools you can use in your company to help you and your employees balance your screen time. Balancing screen time is an important element of achieving or maintaining mental strength among your employees and in this way improving well-being and productivity in your company.
Difficult situations
Presenteeism
As a manager, you play an important role if an employee is suddenly showing signs of not thriving. In the folder ‘Are you thriving?’, we provide a number of different tools that are all easy to pass on and start using, and which can be used as the starting point for addressing well-being in the workplace.
Sickness absence
As a manager you play a crucial role if an employee is absent due to illness for a prolonged period of time, and there is much to consider when an employee is absent due to illness. We show you the typical steps during long-term sickness absence. You will get advice and guidance on how best to help your employees navigate through a period of sickness absence.
Return from illness
When your employee says that he/she is ready to return to work – full-time or part-time – after a long period of absence, it is a good idea to plan the return together. As a manager, you have an important responsibility to help the employee return to work safely. Some employees need more support and help than others at the beginning of the return-to-work process. We have prepared a guide for you with inspiration for what you as a manager can do to ensure the best possible return to work for your employee.
Support through life stages
Poor mental well-being in families
We all want the best for our children so they can grow up happy and harmonious. Regrettably, studies show that many parents take sick leave because their children are not thriving. Your employee can get help through the health package.
Menopause
Break the taboo and create a menopause-friendly work environment in which employees going through menopause are recognised and supported. This involves helping and supporting employees in managing symptoms effectively. If you approach this in the right way, you will increase the chances of retaining menopausal employees.
Well-being of managers
In order to be a good manager, you must be in balance yourself. Here you can get inspiration and specific advice on how to prioritise your own well-being in a busy working life.
Organising work
The flexible workplace
Get tips on managing employees who work in a more flexible set-up than the traditional framework.
Distance management
Over the past few years, many managers have been forced to ‘build the plane while flying it’ and have found themselves in uncharted territory in terms of working from home, on the go or some hybrid of these. As a manager, this may have felt particularly demanding as you have had to manage your employees remotely, and the distance between you may have seemed greater.
Employees with diagnoses
If you are a manager of neurodivergent employees, we offer tips on how to create a good neurodiverse workplace and reap the benefits of the individual’s skills and abilities.
