Supporting Health & Well-being
Caring for the personal health and well-being of their teams is a critical behaviour of successful leaders.
Team members value how their leaders show their consideration and support. Show and communicate your care through ongoing conversations that support wellbeing and success.
Check the hints and tips section for practical suggestions
Match the Tool to Your Need
- When managed well, stress has a positive impact on performance: However too much stress can have negative impacts on us. Learn more about how to Recognise the signs of stress in yourself and others so that you can take action to help.
- Use the Skill-Will matrix to understand the best way to support your team member and keep challenge at a healthy level.
- Psychological safety builds in stages. Use the Building psychological safety tool to see where your team sits and identify actions to strengthen it.
- Encourage individuals to use What is in your control to gain an understanding of those areas that they can and cannot influence and control.
- Help your team members take control of their well-being by encouraging them to prepare a Well-being@work plan.
- When people aren’t OK, their normal patterns of behaviour often start to change. We can pick up signs at an early stage that someone may need assistance using Recognise the signs of mental ill health.
- Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) is not just an “at-home” or private matter, sometimes you may observe changes in a team member’s behaviour in the workplace. Use the Recognise the signs of Family and Domestic Violence tool to help identify some of the behaviours that can indicate this is impacting your team member.
- Encourage your team members to use the Wheel of balance tool to understand how they currently divide their time and consider what they might do achieve work/life balance.
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Hints and Tips
- Create connection. Help your team members feel ‘seen, heard and valued’
- Lead by example. Team members are much more likely to get involved in wellness activities if they see that their leader is doing so.
- Stay active. Provide team members with the opportunity to stay active throughout the day. Transform your weekly sit-downs into one-on-one walking meetings.
- Show appreciation. Saying thanks is one of the easiest things leaders can do to boost employee well-being.