2022 Mental Health Virtual Master Class: How to Build a Workplace Wellbeing Strategy & Bulletproof Business Case For It

The word wellbeing is complex and often gets used interchangeably with several other terms. And establishing a common understanding and language around wellbeing is one of the very first things your organization must do to create alignment and buy-in around the topic. In this session, we’ll cover the following:

o Wellbeing? Burnout? Happiness? Engagement? Mental Health? What’s the difference?
o The Wellbeing Spectrum – from suffering to thriving – so you can get a sense for where you and your employees might currently stand
o The specific categories of wellbeing that lead to a thriving life
o Shifting your perspective to thinking about high wellbeing as synonymous with empowerment

Building a powerful business case for wellbeing requires you to look beyond the short-term gains and understand that there is a much bigger reason. The whole world is struggling, and people need their workplaces to care about them. In this session we will discuss:

o The global trends that show why wellbeing is important now and well into the future
o The role of wellbeing in the great resignation
o The role of wellbeing in a recession
o How it impacts specific populations and demographics

Wellbeing is not just “nice to have.” It impacts absolutely every aspect of your business. An employee who is well, is an employee who is empowered – mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. In this segment we’ll cover:

o How wellbeing optimizes individual performance
o How wellbeing it impacts all the core business metrics organizations care about
o Why it’s important to focus on BOTH engagement and performance

It’s not enough just to know the stats, you need to hear the stories. Leaders need to focus on wellbeing because it’s just the right thing to do. Hearing some stories about what it looks like to be struggling helps make this topic real. In this segment you’ll learn:

o The wellbeing challenges that employees, managers, senior-level leaders face
o What mental ill-health looks and sounds like
o What it looks like to be truly thriving

Workplace wellbeing includes so many components – perks, programs, manager training, meditation apps, changes to policies and benefits, employee education… the list goes on. In this segment, we’ll walk through how all those components fit together and how to incorporate them into your broader strategy. We’ll address:

o The role of the employee vs. employer in a wellbeing strategy and why that’s so important to understand
o The key barriers to wellbeing that create toxic workplaces
o The main organizational drivers of wellbeing

We aren’t interested in a wellbeing program, we’re here to build a long-term strategy where wellbeing is at the center of your culture strategy. In this segment we’ll address:

o The mindset shift that needs to occur at the leadership level
o How to weave wellbeing into your core ideology, and where employee engagement fits
o How to map wellbeing against the entire employee lifecycle

Once you understand what it takes to build a comprehensive strategy, we’ll walk through examples of organizations ‘doing it right.’ In this session you’ll explore:

o Specific best practices from organizations of all sizes that are forward thinking and in alignment with an authentic commitment to wellbeing
o Specific business leaders – CEOs and other senior level execs who are leading the charge on this topic and have made wellbeing a part of their personal mission
o How to start laying the foundation for your strategy - like building a common language, measuring wellbeing, and launching a training and education plan
o The very next steps you need to take to start making an impact in your organization right now

Have lingering questions or want to revisit a concept or two from earlier in the training? Use this time to get all your questions answered before the workshop comes to a close.