Your next Wellbeing Audit. Seven things to look for when choosing yours…
Workplace wellbeing is starting to get its own healthcheck, and that is no bad thing. Here’s what to look for when choosing your next Wellbeing Audit.
Ever since the HSE introduced their Management Standards in the early 2000s wellbeing has slowly been working its way up the corporate agenda.
However, whilst the introduction of stress/ resilience/ wellbeing initiatives are typically brought in with good intentions, their presence can sometimes be as a result of reacting to something going wrong, i.e. COVID-19 or feeling that we should respond to the latest wellbeing trend. The compound effect of this can result in a wellbeing offering that isn’t sufficiently joined up, covering all the bases, or suitably signposted. It can also result in too much focus at the individual rather than the organisational level, or on symptoms, rather than causes.
This is where the Wellbeing Audit comes in. A chance to identify what is effective and what isn’t working, a good audit will identify potential risks or blind spots in your current offering, as well as opportunities for improvement yet to be discovered. Here’s what to look for when commissioning your next wellbeing audit:
A multi-method approach, i.e., more than a survey
Assesses wellbeing at an organisational, department/ team and individual level
Gathers both qualitative and quantitative data
Provides clear feedback on what is and isn’t working, highlight risks and provide clear recommendations
Underpinned by an open and collaborative approach
Informed by a clear methodology, framework or system based on the latest research and best practice
Is truly independent, i.e., not run by those responsible for your wellbeing offering. This could be drawing on the services of your Audit department, if you have one, or an external provider
Better@Work.
At Psychology Works, our approach to Wellbeing Audits is based on our deceptively simple Better@Work Model, a simple but innovative framework for building better business performance through wellbeing.
Designed to support both diagnosis and solution generation, it can be used to tackle both symptoms and causes and work effectively at an individual, team and organisational level. Equally important, it emphasises shared ownership and responsibility for wellbeing between the individual and the business.
The nature of the framework also means that it has the flexibility to be used for supporting the creation of holistic end-to-end interventions, or integrate with existing wellbeing initiatives. It helps businesses understand their relative areas of strength, development and risk across the four areas, and where needed, provide the framework for focusing effort into one or two critical areas- which makes it ideal for use an a framework for Wellbeing Audits.
The Better@Work Wellbeing Audit. Taking a full 360° approach.
When it comes to a wellbeing audit, we believe in taking a 360° perspective and going beyond the traditional employee survey. In our work we stive to tap into the full range of individual and organisational data available to not only provide a more rounded view, but more penetrating insights.
Broadly grouped into six primary sources these are:
Taking a partnership approach, we work with our clients to use the Better@Work framework and our 360 approach to develop and deliver bespoke Wellbeing Audits.
Pulling together a range of both qualitative and quantitative information gathered at the individual, team and organisational level, we use our proprietary Wellbeing Audit to develop deep penetrating insights into the risks, blind spots and opportunities unique to that organisation.
The Psychology Works’ Wellbeing Audit in action…
If our approach to wellbeing and Wellbeing Audits has piqued your attention, why not have read about how we used our 360 approach with a high risk high performing team at Pepper UK, as well as conducting an organisation-wide wellbeing audit for 3000 people at Transport for Wales….
Client Story: Unlocking peak performance. A 360 wellbeing audit of a business critical team at Pepper Advantage
Client Story: Charting a roadmap to better wellbeing. Tracks, trials and transformation at Transport for Wales.
Find out more…
If you would like to know more about how Psychology Works could help you with your next Wellbeing Audit, just give us a shout! On 01273 569314 or hello@psychologyworks.global.
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