Is there a place in your organization to consider having a chaplain to help care for your employees? In this conversation, we discuss the concept, highlights, and benefits of having a chaplain in your organization. Listen to Larry Griffith, CEO of Corporate Chaplains of America, as he shares his insights.
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In this episode:
- What do corporate chaplains do and what kind of help do they offer to employees? (01:43)
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A chaplain cares for the hearts and minds of employees and their family members.(02:23)
- The importance of a culture of caring in the workplace (02:52)
- "They need a leader who cares. And when a leader cares for their people, then something magical happens: that team does things it could not do otherwise." (03:15)
- Do corporate chaplains relieve managers and supervisors of the need to provide care support for a staff member? (08:47)
- How chaplains come alongside people that don't have a faith basis (12:52)
- A manufacturing plant in Michigan, where a large constituency of the employees is Muslim, and they love their corporate chaplain. (13:06)
- Having caring conversations with an employee about work can give insights to leaders on how to make their workplace a flourishing workplace (19:40)
- Parenting teenagers has become so much more difficult in the 21st century (20:48)
- Dealing with aging parents has sky-rocketed as an area of concern of employees (21:12)
- How does having a chaplain make a better customer experience or maybe even impact profitability? (23:09)
- What are people struggling with? (28:54)
- Anxiety, depression, suicide ideation (29:03)
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"And I think as a leader or as an owner of a business or the leader of a church or nonprofit, we have an opportunity to really care for our people. And I think Corporate Chaplains provides a platform to care for your people in ways, quite honestly, that you can't and you're really not equipped to care for them." (36:25)
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