Corporate Choirs
From a corporate perspective spiralling costs, low productivity and low job satisfaction lead to high employee turnover. High-intensity work environments, heavy workloads and financial pressure lead to thousands of stress-related WorkCover claims every year. With One Voice is a holistic new program offering the opportunity to build a harmonious employee community and improve your bottom line. It can also have the positive effect of reducing the risk of illness and improving the well-being of employees. And one of the big areas where it can return on the investment is in improving employee morale and engagement, creative leadership and resilience skills.
A recent estimate claims that when recruitment, training, specialist knowledge and productivity are considered, it can cost up to 200 percent of an employee's salary to replace a skilled position (2007 Vedior Asia Pacific Employment Trends survey). The ABS estimates Australia has a workforce of 10.1 million people. Given that 18% of employees leave their jobs annually and with a conservative figure of 150 percent of an average salary of $55,660.80, the national cost of staff turnover to organisations is estimated in the order of $100 billion annually. (Info. from John Asquith, TalentDrain and 'Love Them Don't Lose Them", published by AHRI)
Benefits to the Organisation
- A positive and caring image
- Improved staff morale
- Improved communication between business units/integrate teams post-restructure
- Greater sense of company as a community
- Improved creativity and thinking "outside the box"
- Reduced staff turnover
- Reduced absenteeism
- Increased productivity
- Reduced healthcare/insurance costs
- A unique program that will attract talented employees to the company - "Employer of Choice"
- A corporate choir who can perform together at key company and community events and assist charitable organisations through the program.
Benefits to the Employees
- A creative, healthy work environment
- A greater connection to other employees and the company
- Improved freedom of expression and communication
- Improved self awareness
- Enhanced self-esteem, resilience and sense of wellbeing
- Reduced stress
- Improved morale
- Increased job satisfaction
- Increased skills for work/life balance and health protection
- Improved health
- A healthier family and community
- Being part of a united team (choir) who perform together at key company and community events and assist charitable organizations
Related Programs
- An annual corporate choir challenge – Battle of the Corporate Choirs
- Corporate choirs can help fund community choirs for less fortunate members of the community or partner with them.
- Guest artists can be engaged to perform with the choir for key events.
- Choirs can perform at key company events including company awards nights, launches, Christmas parties and at local hospitals, community festivals, aged care homes etc.
- Choirs can create a recording which can then be used on the company’s intranet and as a marketing tool.
- Choir members will be encouraged to complete wellbeing surveys every six months to assess the outcomes of the program.
Options
- Choirs from 20 to 300 people
- Recommended for a minimum of 12 months delivered weekly by outstanding choir leaders during school terms.
- Also available for 3 and 6 month programs and one-off CHORAL experiences at meetings, retreats and conferences.
Battle of the Corporate Choirs
All choirs from corporate Australia will be invited to participate in a major corporate choirs competition to be held in Melbourne towards late 2009. (Major sponsorship opportunities are available for this exciting inaugural event.)
'To sing in a choir and open your heart and voice and hear such a big sound surround you is to feel embraced. The magic of these experiences are transformational. To sing is a life-affirming experience and to sing with a choir puts that feeling into stereo. Do you want to feel joy?'
