Why Healthy Workplaces?
Healthy, engaged employees are the foundation of a thriving organisation. The Healthy Workplaces programme was designed to help businesses across the London Borough of Merton create healthier working environments by improving both physical and mental wellbeing through practical, evidence-based support.
In April 2018, Merton Council commissioned Healthy Dialogues to design and deliver an engaging workplace health and wellbeing programme for local businesses. The programme focused on organisations within Merton’s three Business Improvement Districts (BIDs):
- Willow Lane
- South Wimbledon Business Area (SWBA)
- Love Wimbledon
What we did
The programme combined behavioural science, workplace engagement and practical health initiatives to help businesses embed health and wellbeing into everyday working life. Including:
- Workplace health and wellbeing needs assessments.
- Implementing behavioural science to develop tailored engagement strategies.
- Promoting Mini Health MOTs for employees (with One You Merton).
- Promoting the programme across the borough.
- Delivering a monthly breakfast seminar series covering timely health and wellbeing topics aligned with national public health campaigns.
Results
The Healthy Workplaces programme successfully increased awareness of health and wellbeing at a grassroots level across Merton businesses. Feedback from both employers and employees was overwhelmingly positive, with organisations seeking additional support following the workshops.
Our evaluation showed measurable improvements in participants’ confidence and motivation to make healthier choices:
- 100% set a personal behaviour change goal.
- 96% felt more confident about making positive health changes.
- 80% felt better equipped with the skills needed to improve their health and wellbeing.
Client testimonial
“Healthy Dialogues is an enthusiastic, professional and committed team that is delivering on its promise of providing the London Borough of Merton’s external Healthy Workplace programme at grassroots level.
The team had a clear vision of delivering a behaviour change based wellness programme that could be easily implemented by businesses in the Merton area.
Thanks to consistent messaging and a defined programme, Healthy Dialogues was able to drive good levels of engagement and affect positive changes in mental health & general wellness for participants.
The trainers conducting the workshop have been highly knowledgeable and engaged the audiences successfully on various topics including Stress Management, Mental health and Physical Health management.
We are very pleased with the results of the Healthy Workplaces programme and can highly recommend Ashlee & her team to lead on health transformation programmes.”
Rebecca Spencer, London Borough of Merton