Work well-being is crucial to achieving the employees’ maximum productivity. However, businesses are often found without a solid plan to help their workers cope with workplace adversities like stress. As a result, many employees suffer from burnout and chronic stress, ultimately declining their health. In these cases, it is not only the employee who will suffer the consequences, but it will also cost the business.

Together with our partners at the WELLy project, we wanted to reverse this situation by making work well-being an organizational priority. The first important step was creating the work well-being manager (WBM) professional profile and its certification at the EU level.

With our latest product, the “Manual for Work Well-Being Managers” we want to create a reference point for wellbeing managers on how to approach well-being inside their organizations. Additionally, the manual comes with a toolkit for well-being managers to help them realize the aim of preventing and combating work-related stress.  

Let’s find out more about this “Manual for Work Well-Being Managers” and how they can use it.

What is the Manual for Work Well-Being Managers?  

The “Manual for Work Well-Being Managers” offers a practical implementation of measures to prevent and combat stress from work. Essentially, this manual shows work-wellbeing managers how to manage and promote employee wellbeing inside an organization and support them. 

It offers a holistic and proactive approach to dealing with health and wellbeing issues at work, encourages occupational safety, improves the employees’ work performance, and reduces sickness absence.

In short, this manual helps managers do the following:

• Identify and address the workplace injury causes and ill health;
• Address the impact of an employee’s health on their work, like supporting people with disabilities;
• Promote healthier lifestyles to improve the health of the workforce.

Finally, the “Manual for Work Well-Being Managers” offers practical help in various strategies to manage mental health issues in the workplace. In all these, the work well-being manager is recognized as crucial in dealing with team members’ mental health problems at work. At the same time, it emphasizes the need for early intervention.

The manual for work well-being managers toolkit

Adding to the knowledge and information of the previous part of the Manual, the second part is the toolkit with practical resources and content.

In this section, managers can find various activities and tools that can enhance their role as work well-being managers to prevent and combat work-related stress.

This toolkit includes resources like videos, success or failure stories, multiple choice quizzes and external resources for WBM to deepen their knowledge further. Going through the toolkit, you will find the following number of resources in each unit.

Conclusion

We know how hard it is to keep everyone happy and healthy inside an organization, especially during difficult and busy times. Situations like these are certain to have a toll on employee well-being. For this reason, each organization should have a well-being manager who monitors the employees’ mental well-being and keeps stress at work as low as possible. 

With the work well-being manager being a new role, WBMs need as much help as they can get. We hope that the Manual for Work Well-Being Managers, which our experts in the WELLy project worked so hard to develop, will be a good starting point for them to begin their careers in improving employee mental health and reducing stress at work.

Find and download the Manual for Work Well-being Managers and the rest of the project’s outputs at the official website.