Show Notes
Our guest today is Michelle Cooper who trained as a registered nurse before spending the next 15 years transforming safety culture and implementing systems in workplaces across New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Turkey.
She spent 5 years working for one of New Zealand's largest employers, Foodstuffs, to drive a culture of Health and Wellbeing before venturing out with her own consultancy to help small to medium-sized employers improve their safety systems and culture.
In this episode, we deep-dive into answering the following thorny questions.
1. How does employee wellbeing relate to company culture? 2. What is the role of leadership and role modelling in fostering positive employee wellbeing? 3. Why is it so hard to measure employee wellbeing in the workplace? 4. How do you ensure your wellbeing initiatives are relevant when you have a large and diverse workforce? 5. What are simple ways to make people feel valued? 6. How do you prevent burnout for those who are highly passionate and engaged in their work? 7. How do you have courageous conversations with employees that are not performing? 8. What are the key components of an employee wellbeing strategy? 9. What are the risks an employer faces if they don’t prioritise their employee's wellbeing? 10. How can you meet the 6 fundamental human needs in your workplace?
Learn more about Michelle Cooper https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-cooper-305799b/
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