From improving employee engagement and productivity to enabling your workforce to be ready to embrace change, the new Health and Wellbeing Good Practice Award will help you get sustained performance from your people.
What is Health and Wellbeing?
The health and wellbeing agenda is much broader than just encouraging healthy eating and physical fitness. It’s no longer enough to provide free fruit and gym membership and expect this to deliver a healthy and motivated workforce. Following research with employers, Investors in People believes good health and wellbeing practices encourage improvement, rather than just minimising sickness and injury. Employers told us that they saw wellbeing as being about issues such as stress, a sense of worth, security and morale. Some organisations have realised that job satisfaction is no longer easy to provide in the current climate and are focusing on achieving employee engagement.
What are the Business Benefits?
Organisations are having to constantly embrace change and innovation. One of health and wellbeing’s most powerful benefits is the contribution it makes towards securing the employee engagement companies need to deliver change successfully.
How does it work?
This new Award follows the same tried and tested formula as the Investors in People Standard. It is flexible and easy to use. The Award is outcome focused, outlining what you need to achieve, but never prescribing how. We follow an interview approach for assessments, consulting with representative groups across your organisation. Your Assessor will provide you with a detailed assessment report and can also offer additional support to help your organisation to further improve. On achieving this important new Award, you will be sent a certificate and there is a special logo (displayed above) which you can use on your stationery, website and recruitment advertising.
As a first step try the free health and wellbeing diagnostic tool – Health and Wellbeing Interactive on the Investors in People website. This has 20 multiple choice questions and only takes ten minutes to complete. The results will give you a clear picture of how well you are currently performing with health and wellbeing. The tool also features free downloads, templates, case studies and a database packed with good practice tips, including a selection of cost–free ideas. It helps you start working with health and wellbeing good practice or prepare for an assessment.
For further information on the Health and Wellbeing Award, download the information booklet below or call the IBP Helpline free on 0800 612 3098.
Related documents
Health & Wellbeing Information Booklet
Health & Wellbeing Framework Summary Table
Health & Wellbeing Case Study - BUPA Cromwell Hospital
Health & Wellbeing Case Study - American Institute of Foreign Study
