The Impact of Implementing an Employee Wellbeing Program
Creating a mentally healthy workplace and arming employees with coping mechanisms and resilience training has a range of benefits for an organisation and its workers.
Workplace wellbeing is more than offering an employee assistance program or having a zero-tolerance policy on workplace bullying. Positive workplace wellbeing is underpinned by an understanding that work (and the stress that so often comes with it) has impacts reaching beyond the work environment into each employee's mental and physical health, and personal life.
Nearly a quarter of workers believe they have a mental health condition that their workplace caused or made worse. But broaching topics around mental health in the workplace is still heavily stigmatised, leading many workers to believe they have to cope without mentioning stress or poor mental health.
This has significant consequences for individual employees as well as the wider business. A quarter of workers suffer from mild depression, which leads to absenteeism of 50 hours per person per annum. The amount of serious injury claims made in workers compensation claims, including mental injury claims, has tripled as of 2021.
Implementing effective health and wellbeing programs in the workplace is key to creating a safe environment that yields positive impact for employees and organisations
Early intervention programs result in a five-fold return on investment due to increased employee productivity. Employees who experience states of positive mental health perform beyond the required tasks of their job, and thriving employees are more creative and explore their environment for new opportunities.
8 out of 10 employees in a thriving workplace plan on staying for another year, doubling the retention of workplaces that aren’t thriving.
Thriving workplaces have the ability to become the disruptors in their industry, driven to the forefront of the composition by motivated, passionate and committed employees.
As an employer, you have an important role to create the kind of workplace where employees can perform at their best.
BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYEES
1. Training
Mindfulness and meditation training sessions and workshops facilitated by psychologists.
2. App
Premium app content for our program so employees can access training at all times.
3. Support
Tools to ongoing support to help embed the program into your workplace culture.
4. Reporting
Analytics and reporting on employee engagement with the training and app program.
Mental fitness training to bolster workplace wellbeing
Our 60-minute face-to-face or digitally delivered mental fitness workshops are led by highly qualified facilitators and leave staff inspired and empowered with knowledge and tools to improve stress management, enhance daily clarity and connection and boost overall wellbeing.
FOUNDATIONAL WORKSHOP 1
Mindfulness Essentials
A highly practical and engaging overview of the role and relevance of mindfulness in the workplace and beyond. This workshop provides a road map to harness the benefits of everyday mindfulness practice.
FOUNDATIONAL WORKSHOP 2
Calm (Stress Management)
Bring a sense of calm to work and life even when things get hectic. This workshop teaches workers how to ride the wave of stress and effectively manage emotional responses with mindful mindsets and practices.
FOUNDATIONAL WORKSHOP 3
Clarity (Focus)
Enhance focus, performance and innovation. In this workshop workers learn how to reclaim mental capacity, bring clarity to thinking and reduce feelings of overwhelm by developing attention and awareness skills.
FOUNDATIONAL WORKSHOP 4
Connection (Relationships)
Strengthen connections with colleagues to bring energy and satisfaction to each day. This workshop is all about enhancing work relationships, self-compassion and teamwork to improve quality of life both in and out of work.
STAND ALONE WORKSHOPS
Sleep & Work Recovery
Understand the role of mindfulness in sleep and work recovery. Learn practical tips for better quality sleep at night and more effective recovery from the pressures and demands of work.
STAND ALONE WORKSHOPS
Resilience
Improve adaptability and emotional management in the face of challenges and uncertainty. In this workshop, learn how to develop psychological flexibility and use mindfulness as a foundation for building resilience.
Leadership program
Creating a Thriving Team Culture (2-Part Workshop Series)
Smiling Mind’s Leadership Program provides leaders with the understanding, knowledge and practical tools to foster good mental health and wellbeing of their people at a personal level and develop positive wellbeing cultures within their teams and organisation.
Across two 90-minute workshops, learn mindfulness-based social and emotional skills to more effectively manage yourself and foster the development of a high performing and mentally fit team, as well as broader organisational culture.
This program will deliver the highest impact for any workplace wanting to launch a long-term and effective mindfulness led approach to employee wellbeing and success.
WORKPLACE APP CONTENT
Your team will get access to our premium workplace app content
Specialised app content enables a sustained, long term approach to embedding mindfulness in your organisation.
40+ specific guided meditations, activities and videos covering the following topics:
Everyday Mindfulness: Getting started, moving with awareness
Calm: Stress, sleep, and change management
Clarity: Building concentration and focus
Connection: Self awareness, mastering relationships and bringing out the inner leader
Mindful Mastery: Decision making, resilience, and mindful communication
REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
Your team will be encouraged to self-report on a range of validated measures, providing you with a clear indication of the program's impact on employee wellbeing and engagement. A report will detail the changes in pre and post program survey results, helping to give you a better picture of your workplace wellbeing.
What sets us apart?
#1 Wellness App
Trusted by over 6M people and hundreds of globally leading organisations.
Not for Profit
Your investment funds our work in schools helping kids learn skills of mental fitness.
100% Evidence Based
Our workplace wellbeing program is created and delivered by organisational psychologists.
ORGANISATIONS BENEFITING FROM OUR WORKPLACE TRAINING
Smiling Mind has delivered its leading workplace wellbeing program to organisations big and small with some incredible results. Below are just a few of the clients who have championed employee mental health by completing our workplace wellbeing programs.
