Let's Talk: Wellbeing - Lee Chambers,Psychologist and Wellbeing Consultant and founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing
1. How to Waste Your
Budget on Wellbeing
(And What to do
Instead)
Lee Chambers
2. A Very Quick Intro
• Lived Experience
• Industrial Knowledge
• Business Acumen
• Qualifications and
Expertise
3. What Can Strategically
Delivered Wellbeing Achieve?
• The obvious benefits – Sickness, Retention,
Engagement, Productivity
• The hidden costs – Mistakes, Conflict,
Accidents, User Experience
• The harder to measure benefits – Talent
Attraction, Efficiencies, Reputation, Innovation
• Increasingly important in the dynamic world –
an ability to be resilient and manage change
and stress, make decisions and solve problems
4. That Sounds
Amazing –
Where Can We
Get Some?
• It starts with strategy and a sustainable business
case
• Over 50% of UK SME’s don’t have a dedicated
wellbeing strategy – public sector leads the way
• Without a strategy, you are almost certain to fall
into the many pitfalls and traps that chasing
wellbeing will set for you
• Let’s explore a number of these issues that will
cause you to waste your hard secured budgets
5. Ways to Waste Your
Budget on Wellbeing
• No Data, Poor Data, No Measurement
• Low Engagement
• Reactive Purchasing
• Lack of Research
• Not Considering HR’s Barriers
• A Poor Workplace Culture
• Trying to Add Value before addressing
Fundamentals
• One Size Fits All
6. What Should
We Do
Instead?
Nobody buys in wellbeing to fail
It starts with simple questions
Gather data, find gaps, measure baseline
Ask employees; participation matters
Get designing; keep it simple
Launch it; let people know
Review, evolve, embed
7. Sustainability and Momentum: The Holy Grail
The benefits of wellbeing are compounding,
both organisationally and individually
Through measuring, evolution and embedding, it
becomes less work and creates its own business
case, and effective spend no matter the budget
It is easy to do more of what is working and
rapidly change what isn’t
For maximum impact, a simple strategy will be
your GPS to get to destination wellbeing and
performance
8. Current
State of
Play
A focus on Mental Wellbeing
A time for Financial wellbeing
Budgetary constraints
Evaluation leads to positive outcomes
Managers play a pivotal role
Leadership actions and behaviours
Presenteeism and Leaveism
9. An Optimistic Future?
More effort and
holistic support
More attention
from senior leaders
COVID as a lens New initiatives and
proactive actions
10. Things To Consider
Wellbeing
never stands
still
Financial
Wellbeing
Menopause
Management
and Mental
Health
Disabilities
and Long Term
Health
Who is looking
after HR?
11. A Final
Thought
• Take care of yourself
• Promote care of your team
• Develop a wellbeing culture
• Foster a wellbeing community