Wellbeing as a Practice
What are the stages for building a thriving team?
Hiring - Selecting new team members is the start of building a thriving team.
Onboarding - Orienting new team members to set them up for success.
Ongoing - Working with your existing team to integrate well-being practices.
Integration of wellbeing into your organization is a journey that starts with your hiring process. Building a culture of psychological safety, creativity, and productivity can have a virtuous relationship with how you hire, onboard, and create an ongoing culture of well-being.
When building a thriving workplace, start with a shared understanding of wellbeing, respect, and communication.
Drivers of Team Turnover
There is a clear connection between the work environment and the likelihood of leaving a job.
Paying people more money can keep them in a role, but the most common turnover factors are:
A sense of fairness and a positive work environment.
Healthy feedback mechanisms, a sense of autonomy, and involvement in making decisions.
Financial rewards and benefits (both health benefits and more intangible benefits like time flexibility).
High stress.
A strong market with other companies looking for people with similar skills
Onboarding - Acculturation and New Systems
“Acculturation is the process of welcoming new people into an existing culture and supporting them to understand how the culture works and how they can be successful. When you’ve focused on values in the hiring process, the onboarding process can be a space to achieve three goals:
- 1. Create new relationships
2. Provide clarity on expectations and norms
3. Convey information and provide a path for answering questions
There are three key ingredients to keep in mind when helping team members build new relationships:
Making time for each other
Building a connection around shared interests, values, and work
Make an achievable commitment and follow-through
Moving through these three phases supports progression in relationships.
Wellbeing Ingredients
Using Assessments
Assessments can provide your team with a shared language. This page reviews a variety of assessment practices for your company.
Productive Conflict
Many teams avoid conflict fearing that it must be adversarial. This section shows how productive conflict supports innovation.