{"id":18142,"date":"2021-10-15T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/15\/msig-investing-in-employees-wellbeing\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:05:00","slug":"msig-investing-in-employees-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/15\/msig-investing-in-employees-wellbeing\/","title":{"rendered":"MSIG investing in employees\u2019 wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b>MSIG Asia with CEO Alan Wilson invited employees across Asia to gain insights into building resilience &amp; mental readiness with Guinness World Record holder Chris Bertish<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Recognising the need to invest in caring for employees&#8217; mental wellbeing, MSIG has been ramping up online activities to engage its employees since the pandemic outbreak<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 15 October 2021 &#8211; As part of its continuous internal engagement&#13;<br \/>\nefforts for&#13;<br \/>\nthe wellbeing of its employees, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msig-asia.com\/\">MSIG Asia<\/a> invited its 4,700 employees across&#13;<br \/>\nthe region to take time off yesterday while a vast majority are still working&#13;<br \/>\nfrom home, to hear from international motivational speaker and best-selling author,&#13;<br \/>\nChris Bertish, at its regional townhall aptly themed &#8220;Readiness, Resilience,&#13;<br \/>\nResponsibility&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/186508\/Media-image.jpg#image-186508\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking virtually through Teams Live Event, Bertish&#13;<br \/>\nshared his personal stories on resilience, and the importance of being mentally&#13;<br \/>\nready in the face of challenges, even life-threatening moments. He urged MSIG&#13;<br \/>\nemployees at the end of his presentation: &#8220;If we build the readiness, we build&#13;<br \/>\nthe resilience, and we build it into a purpose greater than ourselves to be&#13;<br \/>\nable to give back to help others and look after ourselves, our clients and&#13;<br \/>\nnature, we can overcome obstacles, any challenge any change and we can&#13;<br \/>\nliterally achieve anything, even the seemingly impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a fireside chat with CEO Alan Wilson, they&#13;<br \/>\ntalked about the importance of trust which is fundamental to MSIG because as a&#13;<br \/>\ngeneral insurer being in the business of mitigating risk, at the heart of what the&#13;<br \/>\nMSIG sells is a promise that when something adverse happens then the company will&#13;<br \/>\nhelp them out. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking one of the most voted question from&#13;<br \/>\nthe floor about how Bertish got through 93 days in his expedition across the&#13;<br \/>\nAtlantic Ocean without a phone and connection to the outside world, Bertish&#13;<br \/>\nresponded by admitting he did not have any down time to feel lonely when he was&#13;<br \/>\noccupied with challenges such as navigation, leaks, paddling for over 15 hours a&#13;<br \/>\nday, the weather, and even sharks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The townhall received tremendously positive&#13;<br \/>\nfeedback from employees and directors from all across the region. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Chris&#8217; advice on building trust, resilience and mitigating risk is&#13;<br \/>\nparticularly applicable to our industry. Getting everyone to share a common&#13;<br \/>\npurpose is a good advice for MSIG Asia as we embark on ambitious goals for the&#13;<br \/>\ndecade!&#8221; &#8212; Ajit Nair, Board Director, MS First Capital<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Excellent session, and I found it very inspirational!&#8221; &#8212; Dato&#8217; Mohd&#13;<br \/>\nSallehuddin Din Othman, Chairman, MSIG Malaysia<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Chris&#8217; sharing on resilience and the power of teamwork is incredibly pertinent&#13;<br \/>\nduring these times.&#8221; &#8212; Amanda Lim, Human Resource Manager, MSIG Asia<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;It is so true that we have to take care of ourselves first and foremost&#13;<br \/>\nin the face of challenges. When we take care of ourselves, we can then be able&#13;<br \/>\nto give back to the people around us. This is the crux of mental wellbeing and&#13;<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t agree with Chris more!&#8221; &#8212; Eric Peter, Head of Internal Audit, MSIG&#13;<br \/>\nAsia<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad to have attended this inspiring session!&#8221; &#8212; Anindeta Dewi, Senior&#13;<br \/>\nManager, Claims, MSIG Asia<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the pandemic outbreak began in 2020, MSIG Asia, recognising the&#13;<br \/>\nneed to invest in the caring for the wellbeing of its employees, has been ramping&#13;<br \/>\nup engagement activities through virtual platforms. Besides yesterday&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\ninspirational talk by Bertish and a recent educational webinar on biodiversity,&#13;<br \/>\nwhich is a sustainability focus for MSIG, there were also online quizzes and&#13;<br \/>\nvirtual activities such as craft workshops with employees&#8217; family, workout sessions,&#13;<br \/>\nhealth talks, and festive activities such as for Christmas, the Mid-Autumn&#13;<br \/>\nFestival, Singapore&#8217;s National Day and more. <\/p>\n<p><b>More about Chris Bertish<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bertish is a Guinness World Record holder for&#13;<br \/>\nbeing the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddle board.&#13;<br \/>\nHe was named one of the &#8220;Top-100 Genius Icons&#8221; by Global Genius 100, and&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Leaders of Innovation and Creativity&#8221; by the Einstein Institute in 2018. He enjoys&#13;<br \/>\ntraveling the world to inspire others with his stories of courage,&#13;<br \/>\ndetermination and resilience in overcoming insurmountable odds to achieve&#13;<br \/>\nseemingly impossible goals and dreams, while raising awareness for challenging&#13;<br \/>\nocean conservation and climate change issues globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-15\/99232\/msig-investing-in-employees-wellbeing\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSIG Asia with CEO Alan Wilson invited employees across Asia to gain insights into building resilience &amp; mental readiness with Guinness World Record holder Chris Bertish Recognising the need to invest in caring for employees&#8217; mental wellbeing, MSIG has been ramping up online activities to engage its employees since the pandemic outbreak SINGAPORE &#8211; Media &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}