Nurturing Employee Wellbeing: A Business Essential in the New Normal of Work
Course at a glance
Join us in this 5-week, online course to understand why employers must engage in the personal wellbeing of their employees and how to create a strategy for employee wellbeing that will transform engagement, satisfaction and business productivity at your organization.
Lead Faculty:
Katherine Brune
Former SVP of Employee Well-Being & Benefits, SunTrust now Truist, Owner, WorkSprout & Future Workplace Fellow
Katherine has 15 years of experience working in the people arena. She is a thought-leader in employee experience and well-being programs. Some of Katherine’s greatest accomplishments include designing and introducing an industry-leading financial well-being program for a top financial institution now sold to hundreds of companies, creating a full-time storyteller job to spread purpose in action, introducing integrated health providers in onsite clinics to address the whole person, unleashing a campaign on mental health services, and leading early-career bankers through a super-charged development program. These and many more programs all have one thing in common – a focus on the employee and their ability to deliver their best.
Led by Top Practitioners Who Have Created a Strategy for Employee Wellbeing
This course will showcase the seven pillars in designing a strategy for employee wellbeing and share why employee wellbeing matters more than ever and how to make this a business imperative for yourself, your team and your organization.
Video Case Studies with Expert Faculty Members
This course will feature video case studies from experts in the field, HR pioneers and researchers who understand the drivers of employee wellbeing and how to translate them to an action plan to transform your organization. The video lessons are designed to deeply engage learners.
Five Week Online Course Building Your Holistic Employee Wellbeing Strategy
This course was designed to help you to understand the seven pillars of wellbeing, access an employee wellbeing resource roadmap, and create an action plan for change. Whatever your role, this course will enable you to understand the power of employee wellbeing, the connection to employee engagement and business results.
Recertification Credits & Digital Badge
Upon completion of this course, you will also receive recertification credits and a digital badge to build your personal brand and document your new skills.
Learners who complete this course are eligible for 8 re-certification credits from SHRM and HRCI.
FACULTY
Senior faculty to be announced soon!
OVERVIEW
What You’ll Learn:
Why employers must care about and learn to nurture the personal wellbeing of their employees.
How to create a strategy reflecting the latest research connecting employee wellbeing and employee engagement, satisfaction, and business productivity.
The seven factors of employee wellbeing and their impact on individuals, teams, and the organization.
We will explore how to get started in creating a culture and strategy for employee wellbeing as well as address the new challenges facing employees in the new normal of work.
Audience for Nurturing Employee Wellbeing: A Business Essential in the New Normal of Work is targeted to HR professionals with job titles in areas such as:
COURSE MODULES
Nurturing Employee Wellbeing: A Business Essential in the New Normal of Work Features Five Modules:
Each module takes about one hour of time which includes viewing videos, reading relevant articles, answering questions, contributing to the course and collaborating with other learners.
The Five Modules of Nurturing Employee Wellbeing: A Business Essential in the New Normal of Work include:
Module 1: Wellbeing Today, Why it Matters and How We’re Doing
We explore the state of employee wellbeing and examine research on why employee wellbeing is a business imperative today. We will review the current research linking employee wellbeing to employee needs and business results and detail our seven pillars of employee wellbeing, ranging from emotional, physical, financial, career, social connectiveness, mental health and purpose overlay how new challenges impact these wellbeing pillars. We will look at practices, policies, and technologies in your organization that either support or hinder a nurturing culture of employee wellbeing.
Module 2: Purpose, Mental, Emotional, and Social Connection Needed to Thrive
Too many companies only focus on what they do and how they do it. What’s missing? The “Why.” This module will start with why and how companies are focusing on what they do, and how they communicate this to employees. Next, we will focus on the increased investment in mental health, often perceived not to have a place in the workplace. This has changed in 2020! We will explore how “the great reset” of 2020 has influenced individual views on what we value, why we do the work we do, and how these intersect. We will explore how organizations are using a variety of tools from mindfulness to corporate funded mental health, mindfulness and exercise apps, to EAPs (that actually get used) to support employees and their families. We will also discuss how organizations have also funded caregivers not only for children but also for aging partners. We will showcase video case studies of HR Pioneers leading the way in understanding the impact of mental, emotional and social connection.
Module 3: Physical, Career, and Financial Health to Drive Wellbeing
We will feature HR Leaders in real-time video case studies addressing the physical, career, and financial health of employees. We will look at new ways employers are building their culture amidst a growing number of workers working from home, how they are supporting career planning in a VUCA world, understanding the changing expectations on employers to deliver purpose for a greater society, and proven solutions to assisting financially burdened employees. Finally, we will discuss how technologies and platforms can accelerate participation in wellbeing programs.
Module 4: Physical and Psychological safety in re-entering the Workplace
The place of work as we remember it will never be the same. Companies are challenged with providing greater physical safety measures, focusing on air quality, cleanliness, temperature checks, physical distancing, and (possibly) vaccine records. We will look beyond the physical safety and discuss how psychological safety is a critical part of the HR agenda today. We will explore how hybrid work environments allow for prioritization of employee wellbeing and part of the impact on total rewards offering for employees.
Module 5: Creating a Culture of Wellbeing
Wellbeing touches many aspects of the employee’s life and processes, programs, and policies at work. We will look at the important role of employee listening and meeting the needs of your employee population and how we equip leaders with this new skill. Most importantly, we will look at the importance of fostering your own wellbeing first. At the conclusion of this course, you will build an action plan to take your next step in nurturing your personal wellbeing and the wellbeing in your organization.
Course Design Principles
Nurturing Employee Wellbeing: A Business Essential in the New Normal of Work was designed to be highly engaging using our Learn, Review, Apply format culminating in a digital badge detailing each learner’s achievements and shareable on social media.
Learn
- Understand what Employee Wellbeing is and how it can be nurtured
- Assess and discuss how top companies nurture Employee Wellbeing to realize business results.
Review
- Reflect on the videos of top practitioners sharing why and how they nurture Employee Wellbeing
- Review short knowledge check questions following your exposure to videos, articles and other content
Apply
- Participate in discussion questions and exercises to apply your knowledge
- Build an Action Plan to educate your stakeholders