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09 May 2017
by Liz Morrell

Employee Wellbeing Research 2017: Half of employers with a wellbeing strategy train line managers

Improving engagement from staff relies on company messages being reinforced by line managers and when it comes to wellbeing more than half of employers with a wellbeing strategy train their line managers, according to ‘Employee Wellbeing Research 2017: The evolution of workplace wellbeing in the UK’  from Reward & Employee Benefits Association (REBA) in association with Punter Southall Health & Protection.

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The report shows that overall around a third (31.7%) of respondents provide training for line managers to help them support and promote employee wellbeing. For those with an employee strategy this figure rises to 51.5%.

Where training is provided a further third (31.9%) make it mandatory for all line managers to complete, according to the survey results. The training covers a number of issues. Stress and resilience is most popular at 75.7%. This is followed by absence management (72.9%) and how to have difficult conversations at 65.7%.

“If line managers are to reinforce the wellbeing message then they need to understand and to buy into the strategy,” said Debi O’Donovan, director at the Reward & Employee Benefits Association. “Training them in such strategies is the best way of doing that and so it’s encouraging to see it’s something that so many employers are embracing.”

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Have you registered yet for REBA’s Employee Wellbeing Congress on 22 June? REBA’s Employee Wellbeing Congress is the best opportunity for senior Reward & Benefit practitioners, HR Directors and Corporate Wellbeing specialists to benchmark their wellbeing offering, to research strategies and to source tools to develop that offering moving forward. Register for Employee Wellbeing Congress

 

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