Workplace Wellbeing Plans in 2024
What are your workplace wellbeing plans for 2024? Whether your team will be working from home, HQ or a hub in 2024, I guarantee you that wellbeing will be high on the priority list for your people.
To help with your planning, we've documented all the resources, education and training that you can avail of from Workplace Wellbeing Ireland and our partners and friends in this article.
Whether you're a leader, a champion or an individual there is something for everyone at The Work Well Community in 2024.
For Leaders
In September 2024, we’ll welcome a new cohort of students to the Postgraduate Certificate in Workplace Wellness at Tangent, Trinity College Dublin. We expect the application process will open in the spring of 2024. As with previous years, places will be at a premium so make sure you are on the Work Well mailing list as we will announce details here when the application process is open.
If you’d prefer a fully online option that you can complete in your own time, the 8 Steps to Embed a Culture of Health programme is for you. The course takes participants through an evidence based 8-Step Framework for sustainable workplace wellbeing programme development. The very same framework underpins the PG Cert at Trinity.
For Champions
Wellbeing should be a shared value across the organisation, not something that is owned by one person or team. A team of wellness champions can support wellbeing leader(s) with the programme development, communication, organisation and feedback. The Wellbeing Champion training is delivered in person or online through Zoom across four workshops. Download the module overview here. N.B this course can be tailored and delivered for organisations just starting out or for those looking to re-invigorate an already established wellbeing champion team.
Mental Health Champions
Are you ready to support a friend, colleague, young person or family member who may be experiencing a mental health difficulty or in crisis with their mental health? Reach out to Donal at Mental Health First Aid Ireland to find out about their two day training programme.
Menopause Champions
Empower a team of your colleagues to play an active, ongoing role in ensuring menopause initiatives remain lively and relevant at your workplace. Reach out to Catherine O’Keeffe, the Wellness Warrior.
For Everyone
Workshops
Much like wellbeing and mental health, our live workshops are not just for special occasions. We offer workshops such as ‘The 5 Ways to Wellbeing’ ‘Positive Mental Health Conversations’, ‘The 5 Components of Physical Fitness’ and more all year round and we can also develop bespoke workshops and lunch and learns to meet your requirements.
The Work Well Podcast
On The Work Well Podcast we interview workplace wellbeing thought leaders and industry professionals to discuss how employers, employees and entrepreneurs can lead the way by creating and sustaining the healthy, safe and well workplaces of the future. Recent highlights include discussing the past, present and future of workplace wellbeing with Professor Sir Cary Cooper and a conversation on the policies and legislation supporting healthy work environments with Senator Emer Currie. See below for podcast sponsorship opportunities.
Work Well Webinars
We have a back catalogue of webinar material that would make Mick Jagger jealous. You can catch up on any of our Work Well Webinars on our YouTube channel. If you'd like an introduction to the 8 step framework for embedding a culture of health then this webinar is where to start.
Financial Wellbeing
You’ll find details of all the financial wellbeing options available to you and your colleagues in this Work Well Webinar. This includes organisations I have worked with and highly recommend including Employee Financial Wellness, Jim and the team at Eolas Money and Money Coaching Ireland.
live events
Workplace Wellbeing Ireland will host a series of live and in-person events across 2024 at leading Dublin and Cork workplaces. At out our most recent events we discussed Domestic Abuse Policies in Irish Workplaces at Grant Thornton and we spoke about What Judgment Feels Like at the NTMA. Could your workplace host a Work Well Live event in 2024? Find out what’s involved through this link.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Workplace Wellbeing Ireland has an exciting schedule of events and content planned for 2024 including our Work Well Live events series in Dublin and Cork, our Work Well Weekly newsletter as well as Season 6 of The Work Well Podcast. If your organisation would like to position itself at the centre of our growing Work Well Community then you can download our partnership prospectus to see all our options.
Physical Wellbeing
parkHIIT @ Work
parkHIIT is a social enterprise with a vision to advance physical, mental and social wellbeing for people of all ages and backgrounds by promoting the importance of resistance exercise in community based public spaces. We also offer midweek workouts for organisations that want to support the physical wellbeing of their colleagues. If you'd like to support a social enterprise while at the same time supporting the physical wellbeing of your colleagues then check out parkHIIT @ Work.
Gym Management
If you’re in the lucky position of having a gym onsite at your workplace then you want to have the best people in the business managing that gym. That’s Fitvision. If you’d like an introduction to Mark the CEO then drop me a line.
Nutrition Ideas
Feeding Your Potential
Fuel your body for work and play. 'Feeding Your Potential' is a Workplace Wellbeing Nutrition Course that empowers colleagues to make healthier choices with the tools and the knowledge to do so.
Book a live healthy cooking demo or sign up to a 6 week perimenopause cooking programme with Fiona’s Food for Life
Podcast: How Nutrition Can Enable High-Performance with Kate McDaid
Fruit Partner: Fresh fruit and snack packs delivered weekly by The Fruit People
Revolutionise your workplace canteen with Food Choice at Work’s scientifically proven programme that integrates environmental re-engineering and detailed nutrition education. If you’d like an introduction to Fiona the CEO then drop me a line.
Online Programmes
Self-Care for Working Parents
On this course, Clinical Psychologist Dr. Malie Coyne supports working parents to balance the many demands placed on them by helping them to cultivate compassion for themselves and their children, whilst creating a healthy work-life balance which truly aligns with their values.
Managing Stress at Work to Improve Wellbeing
We can achieve well-being within our work and personal lives if we are equipped with sufficient resources to balance against the daily demands we face. In this evidence-based module, underpinned by the Job Demands Resources Model and Conservation of Resources theory, Dr. Jennifer Hynes explores the psychological, social, physical and financial drivers of well-being in life.
How to Boost Energy, Increase Productivity and Eliminate Procrastination
Just like an athlete, or any leading performer, if you want to win the day, it’s critical that you start on the right foot. That’s why morning routines are so important. They prime you for the day ahead, motivating you, energising you, and helping you to take positive action as you go about your day. Join Brian Pennie as he highlights key techniques including gratitude, visualisation, affirmations and mindfulness to demonstrate how routines don't have to take time, they make time.
Thank You
I'm sure you have a lot going on at present so thanks very much for reading all the way to the end of this article. I have never been more excited by the positively changing landscape and the opportunities that are out there in this space and will continue to do all I can through Workplace Wellbeing Ireland and the Work Well Community to promote wellbeing in our workplaces throughout 2024.
Yours in health,
Brian
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian Crooke is a wellbeing educator, speaker and adviser, empowering Irish organisations to promote and sustain wellbeing within their workplaces.
He is the founder of The Work Well Institute and the Workplace Wellbeing Ireland community and is Course Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Workplace Wellness at Tangent, Trinity College Dublin. He is the host of The Work Well Podcast.
In his spare time, Brian is bringing free resistance training to every county and community in Ireland through his parkHIIT social enterprise.
THE WORK WELL COMMUNITY
The Work Well Institute - Our online education hub.
Our Workshops - Bespoke and tailored options available.
The Work Well Forum - Our private LinkedIn group.
The Work Well Podcast - Conversations with thought leaders.
The Work Well Webinars - Our back catalogue of live panel discussions and expert led presentations.
Our Services - Talks, workshops and bespoke programmes.
The Work Well Newsletter - community news and updates.
parkHIIT @ Work - Tailored resistance training workouts: online or on site.