06 Dec
A truly effective wellbeing program is one which staff take responsibility for their own wellbeing. Too many times you go to an organisation and you see people thinking:
“The organisation will take care of it! The organisation will look after my wellbeing”.
How do you get people to take responsibility for their own wellbeing?
Not by a one size fits all – or telling them what to do.
Everyone knows you need to eat more vegetables, get more sleep, exercise more. You do it by helping people develop their own personal wellbeing plans for 30, 60 and 90 months.
The general expectation in the past has been “the company is going to do it all for us”. This is not one of our principles at workplace wellbeing.
Instead, we help your people to create a work plan, a life plan and a health plan. Going through the specifics of creating those plans, we actually get the people to identify:
- What are their objectives for their wellbeing?
- What are the roadblocks they are facing?
- How much time do they want to allocate to their wellbeing?
Then it gets down to issues and actions.
We can, as an organisation, identify some of the actions which are generic right across the board but there are many others that are specific to the individual.
That is when they have to step up and say “What do I need to do to take responsibility?”
We give guidelines, data and help your workforce to create sustainable, healthy habits. But the philosophy is one of personal accoujntability and never that the organisation is going to do everything for us.
As we like to say “I’m well, we’re well, all’s well.”
