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Create a Holistic Employee Wellbeing Program

Move beyond perks to an approach that targets employee needs and systemic barriers.

  • Wellbeing initiatives often do not align with employee needs, as they are regarded as perks offered to individuals (e.g. healthcare allowance) rather than components of a holistic program that addresses employee needs across multiple wellbeing dimensions.
  • If systemic barriers are not adequately addressed before a wellbeing program is implemented, its impact will be negligible.
  • The development of a wellbeing program is often relegated to a side-of-desk task that lacks adequate resources and involvement of key players.

Executive Summary

Critical Insight

  • Organizations must embed a focus on employee wellbeing into their day-to-day operations, culture, and leadership to thrive in today’s environment. This requires a shift from viewing a wellbeing program as a couple of stand-alone initiatives to understanding it takes an integrated and holistic approach to meet employee needs and address systemic barriers.

Impact & Result

  • Gather data and employee feedback to identify gaps in existing initiatives and uncover employee wellbeing needs.
  • Select the organization’s wellbeing priorities and build a program composed of initiatives that meet employee needs and address systemic barriers.
  • Create a customized and targeted communications plan to ensure employees are fully aware of the wellbeing initiatives being offered.

Research & Tools

1. Assess the current state and set program goals

Inventory current wellbeing initiatives, conduct an environmental scan, analyze data on employee needs, and identify systemic barriers and program constraints.

2. Review and select wellbeing initiatives

Plan to address systemic barriers, review current and identify additional wellbeing initiatives, create a shortlist based on feasibility and key player input, and draft a business case to present to senior leaders.

3. Prepare to launch

Draft a wellbeing initiative roadmap, create a communications strategy, identify training opportunities for managers, and plan an evaluation and iteration process for the wellbeing program.

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