Maaike Meulenbroek, CCO at paraDIGMA groep, a guest at BNR Zakendoen

Last week Maaike Meulenbroek, commercial director of paraDIGMA groep was a guest all week as a Business Partner on the radio program BNR Zakendoen. She sat down next to presenter Thomas van Zijl. From stress jerks to burn on, Maaike cited notable news items of the day and during the broadcast got the chance to tell more about (the vision and approach of) paraDIGMA groep and its labels. Among other things, she discussed the importance of prevention, happiness at work, mental health and absenteeism, the vitality scan and work-life balance.

Curious about what Maaike has to say? Listen to the episodes of BNR Zakendoen via the links below or via Spotify.

Monday

"Work pressure is almost never the only cause of burnout," Maaike Meulenbroek responds to the news of the day she addresses on the broadcast. But what then are the causes of burnout symptoms?

Listen to Monday's Oct. 24 broadcast here to find out:

Tuesday

How can you ensure lower absenteeism in your organization? By taking good care of your employees. paraDIGMA groep believes in a front-end approach. Maaike Meulenbroek says the following about this: "Of course it is important to have it set up properly within the organization for the employees who are already in absenteeism, but it is even more important to start working with the much larger group of employees with whom there is seemingly nothing wrong yet. ... Leadership and culture are most important, if your organization manages to have employees enjoy coming to work, you will find that absenteeism within that organization is much lower."

Listen to Tuesday's Oct. 25 broadcast here:

Wednesday

"If you manage to have genuine attention for your people as a manager at every level, even as a director, you can only do that if you have a team that is not too big. We see in organizations that when there is such a large span of control that executive has no time for precisely what he or she is good at, -namely, leading."

Listen to Wednesday's Oct. 26 broadcast here:

Thursday

Many organizations already want or are doing something with vitality. Yet it is mainly the people who are already more aware of vitality who take up a gym membership through their employer or the healthier choice in the canteen. How do you reach the group that does not do this of its own accord?

In this episode, Maaike discusses our vitality scan; the FITanalysis: "With this scan we can not only measure how vital the employee is, but we can map out how he deals with vitality based on someone's character traits, among other things. This allows you as an employer and manager to gain more insight into the behavior of your employees and steer towards vitality."

Want to know more about the FIT analysis? Then check out the website of our vitality label getFIT and listen to the Thursday, Oct. 27 broadcast:

Friday

Before the pandemic, the leased car and sports membership were most important, now research shows that the workplace itself and flexibility are now perceived as most important. Consider working from home. But, with rising energy prices, the first sounds are already emerging that it might be more attractive to come back to the office after all. How do we maintain the right work-life balance? "I think autonomy is one of the most important things you can give an employee to maintain work-life balance," indicates Maaike Meulenbroek during this broadcast. How exactly is that?

Listen to Friday's Oct. 28 broadcast here: