How can I measure wellbeing in the workplace?
Find out about our wellbeing insight survey
Wellbeing Works’ founder and chief executive, Hamish Moore, explains how our clever, predictive wellbeing diagnostic survey tool ‘wellbeing insight’ (Wbi), can assist your organisation in improving wellbeing, engagement and performance amongst your staff…
“As employee wellbeing is a key driver to performance in the workplace, organisations and teams understand its importance. However, what many organisations fail to grasp is that measuring and analysing wellbeing can help to improve the performance and engagement of their workforce. That’s why we developed Wbi, to identify the areas that need improvement and offer data and advice to help implement positive changes toward areas of wellbeing, performance and engagement. Wbi is a proven tool which will provide you with data, specific to your organisation, neatly summarise the current situation within your organisation and pinpoint the factors that need to be addressed to allow for significant improvements to be made.
Furthermore, our tool was developed in conjunction with Newcastle University Medical School’s Professor John Matthews, who has carried out statistical predictive work for heart transplant surgery. Where other tools tend to be predictive at best (starting with general wellbeing indicators and ‘hope’) and are predictive, we’ve utilised Professor Matthews’ proven skills in this area to create an evidence-based, proven tool. It predicts future absence, future presenteeism levels and engagement.
Our clients have found the results and insight that our Wbi tool and Wellbeing Works provides invaluable. This highly-specific survey and diagnostic tool provides data, specific to your employees, teams and organisation, which we can use to provide you with rich insight to help you to implement organisational specific solutions that will work to drive improved performance across your organisation.
Our Wbi survey covers a range of matters including:
- current staff wellbeing levels
- causes of impaired wellbeing
- factors that will drive improvements
- returns you can expect from interventions
How does it work?
Wbi consists of a confidential, online questionnaire, which takes around 15 minutes to complete. Upon completion of the survey, individual employees receive an immediate, confidential Wbi wellbeing report. The organisation only receives aggregated data to help them:
- predict future absence levels
- cost of that absence
- predict future presenteeism levels
- identify causes of impaired wellbeing
- implement support for individuals identified as high-risk
- identify factors driving or impairing the levels of discretionary effort
- identify levels of resilience and factors that drive or impair resilience
- identify areas of reduced discretionary effort and its causes.
What does ‘discretionary effort’ mean?
Simply put, discretionary effort is ‘going the extra mile’. In the workplace, we can consider this in relation to performance – how we undertake tasks, the pace we work at, the quality of work we do and our attitude toward customer or client service.
Unsurprisingly, staff who feel highly motivated, engaged and well are more likely to exercise discretionary effort. Those with high resilience are more likely to sustain discretionary effort when circumstances change in the workplace.
While many organisations recognise the value of discretionary effort, few go to any effort to measure it. Wbi provides employers with tools and insight into the discretionary effort of their staff.
The data gathered from Wbi reports can help employers to implement positive changes in the workplace in areas such as managerial style, job constructs and effort through improving wellbeing and resilience levels.
Do you think your organisation could benefit from Wellbeing Works’ Wbi tool? Contact us today to find out more.
