It is common to think of wellbeing as solely related to physical health, but any complete wellbeing definition must capture so much more.
Wellbeing includes the major components of a great life — an individual’s experiences and perceptions of what’s important. Ultimately, it represents how someone’s life is going. But wellbeing is not the same as wellness, which is a component of employee wellbeing.
Gallup has discovered five core elements of wellbeing:
Stressed-out and burned-out employees often inspire leaders to ask,
Fortunately, employee wellbeing is quantifiable, meaning that you can define wellbeing, measure it, understand it and transform it within an organization.
Learn how Gallup can transform wellbeing and create resiliency in your organization.
Create a culture of high development by using a strengths-based strategy to design your employee experience, from attraction to performance.
Remove managers who make employees’ lives miserable. Such managers are a tremendous risk.
Move the manager mindset from being a boss to being a coach who develops employee performance and has regular coaching conversations to provide meaningful feedback.
Managers and teams that share a bond of trust can begin to have meaningful discussions about wellbeing at work.