If you missed last week’s MAD World Festival of Workplace Culture, Employee Health & Wellbeing, or you simply want to revisit the content, we’ve put together a page of the presentations that we have permission to share, along with links to useful resources here.
We’ve had fantastic feedback to the event. Here are just some highlights gathered from posts on LinkedIn.
Judith Grant, Workplace Wellbeing Strategist and Consultant said:
What a great day at Make A Difference Summits! Another superb line up.
I especially enjoyed the panel debate hosted by Dame Carol Black. I was totally on the side of Peter Cheese, Dr Clare Fernandes MFOM and Vanessa Harwood-Whitcher who were arguing (if we had to choose a side) that institutional change beats individual interventions in achieving a healthy, happy workforce. Of course in reality we need a combination of both but the discussion was so entertaining and the arguments from both sides compelling. For me a strategic wellbeing approach always come back to the design and organisation of work, and more broadly the institutional systems and processes we operate in.
Jo Yarker, Professor of Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck University of London said:
Thank you Make A Difference Summits for an enriching day. It was wonderful to join Nick Pahl, Steve Iley (from Jaguar Land Rover) and Elton Dorkin (from Rio Tinto) for a panel discussion focused on empowering organisations to make informed decisions when purchasing wellbeing products and services.
Key takeaways from our discussion included:
- Leveraging evidence-based frameworks to navigate the complex array of available solutions.
- Embracing all wellbeing ideas from within the organisation to foster relationships that strengthen the foundation for your strategy.
- Addressing the gaps in public health provision to enhance the wellbeing of not only our working-age population but also our global communities.
Thank you to all who attended and contributed to this vital conversation on improving workplace wellbeing.
Max Brown, Workplace Wellbeing & Performance Strategist, Arthur Ellis said:
Loved going to my first Make A Difference Summits yesterday. Brilliant conversations and people buzzing around all day, 5 biggest takeaways 🍔 🍟 for me:
- To normalise neurodiversity, tailored environments must be created for neurodiverse individuals. This gets their unique talents and thinking stimulated – how are their needs being met along with the wider neurotypical workforce – what are your biases as an individual and how can you limit those – use ‘manual of me’? 📖
- True and lasting wellbeing change comes from institutional led programmes which drives a healthy, tailored ecosystem for individuals to learn, change and be well more often than not ✅
- Workload seen as the biggest issue in workplace which is unlikely to change, so we must change HOW work is done. How much engagement there is, how we lead, how we engage, how we work, how we surround ourselves, how we communicate 🗣️
- Financial wellbeing’s impact centres on how benefits are communicated to us – create dashboards, create networks – ‘share, dont delegate’ 💰
- Create access to networks for neurodiverse individuals – ERG’s and connect people through lived experience – personalise each person’s work experience through larger groups and space for people to share & connect 👯♂️
What were your key takeaways from the day? We’d love to know. Please send them to [email protected] or join the conversation on LinkedIn.
