Wellness Index

The Wellness Index is a unique diagnostic tool that brings together the latest thinking and research in the field of people management and business performance.  It serves as a pivotal starting point for employers seeking to move from the old thinking of Human Resource Management into the contemporary integrated paradigm of Wellness Management, which offers clear routes to sustainable competitive advantage amidst the intense global market pressures of the 21st century.

The Wellness Index enables organisations to highlight how their performance and productivity is linked to the physical and psychological well-being of their workforce. This is done using online profiling tools and performance data. The results are benchmarked against UK, and where needed, European and international norms.

The Wellness Index will enable an organisation of any size to:


Within the organisation, it pinpoints ‘hotspots’ that might otherwise remain hidden, insidiously wreaking damage on staff morale and the bottom line.

The Wellness Index can be incorporated into the balanced scorecard reporting system. For commercial organisations, it is integrated into The Work Foundation’s High Performance Index.

It evaluates individual levels of well-being across the following domains:


This crucial information, when collected, collated and examined, indicates what percentage of the team have the resources to deliver consistently high levels of performance.

Research has clearly shown that this depends on the following criteria and inner capabilities:


Without The Wellness Index, these key factors which affect the judgement, creativity and productivity of all cadres of staff – from front-line customer service to chief executive – are impossible to determine.  Without such depth and scope of specific, measurable information, organisations operate in the dark, undertaking expensive team-building and employee welfare initiatives on a hit-and-miss basis.

A key feature of Wellness Management is that it brings together and enhances all the other people management initiatives that might already be underway.

What benefits does The Wellness Index offer?

 - It enables organisations to measure how well their employees are against the latest norms – there is a duty of care to know how well employees are.
 - It benchmarks how these wellness levels compare with other employers. This is being done in the UK and in other parts of the world.
 - It provides key insights into the links between employee wellness and personal, team and organisational performance and integrates these reports into with other management information.
 - It determines key wellness strengths and sources of competitive advantage and so that the organisation can build on them.
- It establishes common wellness standards and language across its supplier base.
 - It enables a better understanding of the determinants of absence levels and thereby makes it possible to reduce absence in a sustainable way by finding out what differentiates people with 100% planned attendance from others.
- It facilitates improved management of organisational risks of accidents and injuries.
 - It balances even better employer and employee responsibilities as each employee receives a Personal Wellness Profile™ which provides highly personalised, practical advice on how to the individual can manage personal wellness even more effectively. This is completed online and takes about 15 to 20 minutes.
Offers the opportunity to develop employee-led (as opposed to expert-led) wellness programmes based on detailed development reports.
- It is backed up by opportunities for all participants to network and learn from others through Regional Wellness Management Community Forums and virtually through a new Online Wellness Management Community.

All of these benefits are achieved in a way which is:

 

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Investors in People selected The Wellness Index to assess how well people were in a range of employers who are at the leading edge of adopting the new health and well-being standard. We are now partnering them to pilot The Wellness Index in Denmark.

The Wellness Index was originally developed in 5 languages: English, French; German; Spanish and Dutch and will be developed in other languages and countries including Australia and the Dubai.