WELLBEING IN THE WORK PLACE
Wellbeing in the Workplace
MANAGING FOR WEALTH & HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE DEVISING YOUR WELLBEING AT WORK STRATEGY
In my first article the emphasis was on the reasons ‘why’ it makes sense for more businesses to embrace wellbeing in the workplace practices. There were examples of tangible ROI’s and there are now many examples and case-studies to demonstrate that additional wellbeing approaches can impact very positively on the bottom line.
• Create ‘The Vision’ – What do you want to achieve? What is going on in your organisation? Analysis needs to take place and there is likely to be an idea of potential health issues already
• Review Current Resources / Practices – what does the organisation already have in place? Environment, structure, culture and business activities that will impact on your workforce that needs to be taken into consideration and integrated. Evaluate your current state of play
But exactly where does an organisation actually start? and who should be responsible? Influencing wellbeing is a big topic and covers a multitude of areas, physical mental and emotional.
JOINED UP THINKING My experience to date tells me that it usually falls to either the person responsible for human resources/ personnel practices or for health and safety with often these post holders doing different things to contribute, or each thinking the other should be responsible. Very often the thinking behind the subject is not well thought out, or joined up. Whilst many organisations are actively working toward implementing wellness approaches it has not been embraced as part of the organisational strategy with defined objectives and there can be adhoc practices without any measurement of their effectiveness.
In order to focus the efforts it does need a plan.
• Involve People – identify a person/s and allocate responsibility and accountability, create a team of interested people and get them involved and engaged as early as possible
• Formulate an Action Plan – start to create an action plan and framework and identify key result areas/key performance indicators/return on investment outcomes
• Develop Your Programme – having identified your priorities look at the next 12 months with specific milestones for achievement. Be realistic, there will be things that are necessary to do and things that may be nice to do. Focus on the priorities and budget
• Find Your Partners/Suppliers – link with those people/organisations that can provide the expertise and resources to help you facilitate the successful achievement of your action plan and programme delivery
• Communicate and Engage Your Workforce – raise awareness of what the organisation is doing and why, getting people interested and on board. Use specific and targeted campaigns helping to educate individuals and fostering a deeper understanding of the lifestyle health choices they may make – and their consequences
• Launch Your Wellbeing in the Workplace Programme – how do you communicate messages/new initiatives in your business currently? Can these be utilised or do you need to devise a new way of doing this?
• Evaluate Your Programme – the evaluation needs to take place throughout, gathering feedback and establishing results, tweaking where necessary
• Repeat – Based on results and learning the plan and milestones for the next year is established, building on the successful results achieved
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