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Wellness-Centered Leadership
The impact of wellbeing on performance
Organizations are recognizing that employee well-being is not just an HR benefit but a critical driver of sustainable high performance and business success.
Key Workplace Wellbeing Challenges:
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Mental Health Crisis, The World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization estimate that 12 billion workdays are lost every year to depression and anxiety, costing the global economy nearly US$1 trillion.
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Leadership Capability Gaps, Many managers have not been trained to recognize and support employee wellbeing challenges.
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Organizational Design Flaws, Structural elements such as workload, role clarity and resources can systematically undermine employee wellbeing when they are poorly designed.
Effective Wellbeing Leadership Approaches:
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Wellbeing Skill Building, The WHO recommends manager training, to build managers’ capacity to prevent stressful work environments.
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Work Design Interventions, Realistic workloads and deliberate time for rest and recovery support sustained cognitive performance and creative output.
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Psychological Safety Focus, Google’s Project Aristotle ranked psychological safety first among the five dynamics of effective teams, ahead of dependability, structure and clarity, meaning, and impact.
Key Takeaway:
Mind Share Partners’ 2023 Mental Health at Work Report found that workers rated healthy, sustainable work cultures as more helpful than therapy and self-care resources. Wellbeing leadership is about how work is led and designed, not only about the benefits offered.
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References:
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World Health Organization. (2022). WHO and ILO call for new measures to tackle mental health issues at work. https://www.who.int/news/item/28-09-2022-who-and-ilo-call-for-new-measures-to-tackle-mental-health-issues-at-work
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Mind Share Partners. (2023). Mental Health at Work Report. https://www.mindsharepartners.org/mentalhealthatworkreport-2023
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Google. (2015). Understand team effectiveness (Project Aristotle), re:Work. https://rework.withgoogle.com/intl/en/guides/understand-team-effectiveness