Healthy Manager Programme

Why do organisations need managers who deliver high performance through health and wellbeing?

Post-pandemic, global workplace sentiment surveys show that organisations that help staff create a healthy work-life balance are more likely to have higher performance, higher levels of engagement and less turnover and burnout.

Change has become part of the new workplace. Managing change takes skill and dealing with workplace complexities, hybrid working, flexible working, AI, changing customer requirements and corporate financial strain means that there is more to being a manager now that 5 years ago. Many managers are not properly equipped to deal with all that is expected from their role.

Trends suggest that staff look to managers to lead by example on a range of personal and professional behaviours including personal care and wellbeing to deal with all that is expected from their role.

Newly appointed and middle managers report the highest levels of stress within the majority of organisations, citing a lack of time, unrealistic work demands and problems prioritising between task and people management as key stressors. Managers today are not only looking after the day-to-day, they are performing.

Health is a key driver of performance at an individual and organisational level and to capitalise on it managers and leaders need to broaden their understanding of what health actually means from an organisational and individual perspective. If people believe their manager and organisation care about their health and wellbeing, they are positioned to perform.

Managers need an enhanced skillset to cope with the demands of their life and their role in a healthy and sustainable way. By using deep psychology, we tap into a deeper motivation. It’s about using a scientific approach to measure and manage the right indicators to deliver sustainable high performance.

Organisations that foster a culture of health and wellbeing are more profitable, resilient (better able to cope with change and shocks) and desirable workplaces.

HEALTHY MANAGER PROGRAMME:
BACKGROUND

This programme is designed to enhance managers skills and competence in influencing a climate of health and wellbeing. Participants learn what health and wellbeing means for them personally and how to influence their teams to shift their mindset and behaviours, enabling them to create a healthy balance and enhance wellbeing.

This programme is unique and based in science. The programme takes a salutogenic perspective, which centres on question, how can this person be helped to move toward greater health? This programme helps managers to identify the answer to this question for themselves first, and then for their teams.

Through this programme the link between high organisational performance and health is highlighted using a range of different perspectives. Participants are challenged to think critically about how to best lead and manage self and others toward healthy and sustained organisational performance.

This programme helps participants to understand how to cultivate a culture of health and wellbeing across their teams and throughout the organisation.

HEALTHY MANAGER PROGRAMME:
OBJECTIVES

The overall aim of the programme is to enable participants to deepen their management practice through the lens of high performance based on health and wellbeing.

More specifically, the programme will also;

Challenge participants to think about their behaviours and how they reflect health and wellbeing
Advance participants understanding in gathering, evaluating and using data to make decisions on personal and professional health and wellbeing
Extend participants overall management skillset so that their day-to-day management capabilities are enhanced through the application of a health and wellbeing approach.

Through this programme participants will develop competencies in the following areas;

Critical thinking and decision making

Communication
Building trust and psychological safety
Lead teams and influencing climate
Influence skills
Stakeholder management
Personal network development
Self-reflection and evaluation
Self-awareness and emotional intelligence

Healthy Manager Competencies

HEALTHY MANAGER PROGRAMME:
TIME AND FEATURES

The Healthy Manager Programme is designed to run over an 8-month period.

Individual Healthy Behaviour 360:

Each participant will complete a 360 Healthy Behaviour Survey at two time points, firstly, before the programme commences and secondly, after module 4 so that changes in behaviour can be monitored and assessed over time.

Anchor and Action days:

The anchor day is one day at the start to create the context of the programme for participants. The Action and Assessment day is the final one-day of the programme where participants work through final scenarios, submit their assessments and plan for their own continuous development.

HEALTHY MANAGER PROGRAMME:
TIME AND FEATURES

4 x 2-day modules:

Each module will focus on one core aspect of the Healthy Place to Work model; Purpose, Connection, Mental Resilience and Energy and Physical Resilience and Energy.

2 x 3hr virtual Action Learning Sets:

These sets are facilitated by a member of the Roffey Park Team and are designed to create an active space for participants to share learnings, seek peer support, solve problems and set new management practice goals.

Action Research Project:

Each participant will complete an action research project that has relevance to their workplace and management practice. The project will be updated by the participant as they progress through the programme and submit it prior to the final assessment day.

PURPOSE

Wellness Culture
Flow & Gratitude
Congruence
Organisation & Value

MENTAL RESILIENCE

Learning Mindset
Financial Wellbeing
Self Efficacy (job & career)
Self Efficacy (health)
Work Control
Work Demands

CONNECTION

Manager Support
Belonging
Relationships
Peer Support
Social Wellbeing
Diversity & Inclusion
Emotional Expression

PHYSICAL HEALTH

Work Environment & Safety
Energy & Rest
Fitness
Diet

HEALTHY MANAGER PROGRAMME:
JOURNEY

Certification & Continuing Professional Development

Participants will receive a co-branded certificate through Roffey Park Institute as recognition of their Continuing Professional Development.

Certification

Healthy Place To Work® is the recognised Workforce/Workplace Health standard, offering a new perspective on sustainable high performance. We partner with organisations across the globe, creating cultures with employee well-being at their core, providing data-driven insights to ensure higher organisational performance. We support our clients in creating sustainable and resilient workforce/workplaces while helping them achieve certification as a healthy workplace and be seen as an employer of choice. Our unique model draws upon research in fields as diverse as psychology, neuroscience, sociology, economics, health, organisational development, management/leadership, assisted by the deep expertise of academics, professionals and leaders in the human capital and health arena. Participating in the Healthy Place To Work® process enables organisations the opportunity to deploy employee health processes and initiatives that are proven to increase the health of the individual and the organisation alike and to be publicly recognised as a healthy workplace, enhancing their Employer Brand.

Roffey Park & Healthy Place To Work®

At Roffey Park Institute we’ve been championing people at work for over 75 years when we were established to support people to improve their wellbeing and return them to productive roles in industry. We are delighted to partner with Healthy Place To Work, an international organisation improving organisational performance through workplace health, together we will show you what creating a healthy organisation really means in today’s world of work, explore the 4 pillars of workplace health, develop an organisational culture and employee experience which promotes health while developing the leadership and management skills that create a workplace where people thrive.

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Health is the key
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