Many organisations are seeing the value of having a wellbeing strategy in place in order to ‘walk the walk’ of taking care of their staff and volunteers effectively. These can cover known risks, planned actions and accountability for delivery and monitoring.
While a strategy document can be useful, it’s the collaborative process leading up to it where the real juice is found. With my support, you can:
* Engage your colleagues and set up a purposeful wellbeing group
* Select an appropriate wellbeing approach for your organisation and sector
* Develop a process for reviewing existing wellbeing levels, threats and supports (if appropriate), and monitoring these going forward
* Create an effective wellbeing strategy that acknowledges and integrates colleagues’ varied needs and preferences
* Run this process with your chosen level of support from me – from full facilitation to capacity building to guide/ critical friend
Carrying out a wellbeing review
It may be that you’d like to start your wellbeing work through a stand-alone review of colleague wellbeing, as well as the resilience threats and supports people experience. These processes can prove surprising and enlightening, and can be carried out in a light or a deep way.
For instance, we could include:
* Selecting your wellbeing approach
* Selecting and/ or developing an approach to gathering qualitative and quantitative information on colleague wellbeing + resilience
* Gathering and analysing the data
* Sharing and reflecting on the findings
* Deciding on next steps and ways forward, collaboratively
‘This was one of my happiest experiences of working with a consultant; in the voluntary sector, where we watch costs so closely, it is rare to find someone who is willing to apply expertise to a specific brief with the kind of skill, insight, flexibility and generosity you showed.’
– Pat Jones, Chief Operations Officer, Depaul International
Why work with me?
As well as providing consultancy support around wellbeing, monitoring and research, I’ve worked in charities in-house, with infrastructure bodies, local government and funders. I have sat in many of the seats around the sector table over the last 20 years.
I enjoy working collaboratively and creatively, and have expert facilitation and communication skills. You can see more about my background, ideas and ways of working on the rest of this site.
“Milla is a fantastic facilitator. Her “light touch” approach to managing discussions was great. This involved steering things and holding the space rather than suggesting how things ‘should’ be done, which engendered a sense of ownership of the process and of the product.”
– Caterina Violi, Information Officer, A New Direction
What’s next?
If you’d like to discuss wellbeing strategy + review support, please get in touch with me directly. I’m always happy to have an initial call for free.
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