CWHP-A Reflections: Unit WWC01

From leadership styles in a workplace or the workplace culture, support by our senior executives is a must in order to make changes to get buy in for organization change. External factors cannot be controlled, however, we can shift our focus to as we see changes to support our employees proactively to uncontrollable factors with market trends to unforeseen circumstances. Gradually planting that seeds into the stakeholders and leaders helps with implementing changes and being ahead of the challenges that we are about to face makes it easier for buy in. I think planning Pilot projects for us was the right choice as it build momentum and promoted employee excitement at the “what is next” approach and showed how we can help our employees with mental health challenges and small changes. I learned as I was going through this chapter how to involve the stakeholders and align our company values with wellness and if we have these values, we need to live by them. And budget was always the challenge as finding different ways to provide this support with costs staying low. I actually reached out to some benefits providers to get involved in our challenges. All companies have pain points and employee surveys are important it reveals many pain point and measures. Learning how to assess these surveys and where to make changes at high level assessment helps us understand the root cause. It is a block process rather than going to the pain points immediately and not actually understanding the root cause. I was also able to measure strategic objects by using scorecards which is not my normal practice. Scorecard will give you a broader perspective and a tool you can use to measure your health and performance strategy. I will use this in my next set of presentation to outline our goals for Health and Wellness. What stood out for me was taking an example of high workload and how to deal with it. This is very common in organizations I have worked for and often it is looking at processes and streamlining and making improvement but sometimes it is just in adequate staffing and we need to accept this and addressing this to making changes.