The #1 Mistake in Workplace Well Being Initiatives #shorts

The number one mistake that you're making if you're seeing low returns from your investments in well being initiatives at your company is that you're solving and focusing your efforts on the wrong problem. You see, most companies focus on individual interventions. They might have an expert speaker come and talk about burnout. They might have a mindfulness teacher. They might have a nutrition specialist. But what they fail to recognize is that only 27% of well being is related to individual factors. Over 72% of it is related to demands and enablers in the job, team and organization. As per the recent report from McKinsey and Company, when it comes to burnout, only 3% are around individual factors. 97% are driven by demands and enablers at the job, team and organization level. So if you want to build a robust wellbeing strategy and make flourishing your competitive edge, you have to first start by understanding what are the biggest drivers in your environment that your people are facing. Second, you all have to look at it almost at a team or a function level versus a one size fits all and three, you have to then drive initiatives that address holistically the system. In addition to the individual interventions that many companies take.