Backed by science. Confidential results. Immediately actionable. The PERMA+ Wellbeing Evaluation turns the latest research on flourishing into a confidential, repeatable measurement that gives leaders the signal, and the next action, they need.
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In its simplest form, wellbeing is our ability to feel good and function effectively. Studies consistently show that when people experience higher wellbeing, both they and the organisations around them perform measurably better.
more likely to feel engaged
more likely to be productive
more likely to be satisfied in their job
less likely to experience unhealthy days
less likely to burn out
less likely to quit
fewer safety incidents
lower absenteeism
lower turnover
more likely to be seen as creative and innovative
higher customer ratings
higher above-average shareholder return
Source: The Wellbeing Lab, Australian Workplace Report.
Most workplace wellbeing measures and programs won’t tell you caring for wellbeing is challenging. We will. Three things that quietly undermine even the most well-intentioned programs:
It is healthy for people’s levels of wellbeing to ebb and flow as they navigate the inevitable ups and downs of work and life. Rather than chasing ever-higher levels of wellbeing, your goal should be helping your people improve their ability, motivation, and sense of psychological safety to actively and mindfully care for their wellbeing, even during times of challenge.
How are you measuring success?
Feelings of struggle and stress don’t have to undermine people’s performance, if they know how to respond to these signs as opportunities for learning, growth, and resilience. Normalising struggle frees people to talk more openly and honestly about the wellbeing challenges they’re facing, and to improve their ability, motivation, and psychological safety.
What messages are you sending about struggle?
Wellbeing beliefs, expectations, and behaviours spread through a complicated web of social connections at the “me”, “we”, and “us” levels. Building a thriving workplace or community environment needs informed, diverse, and sustained support to help people take tiny, but mighty, daily actions to care for their wellbeing.
Do you have a system to care for wellbeing?
What should we be measuring? Studies show that wellbeing is not a one-dimensional concept. There is not one number you can point at, or workplace dial, several factors together build a reliable picture. One way to understand, measure, and act on evidence-based approaches for caring for wellbeing is by drawing on Professor Seligman’s PERMAH Framework, which points to six factors of feeling good and functioning effectively.
Boost resilience by lowering stress and mindfully navigating emotions, even when overwhelmed.
Improve confidence and creativity by developing people’s neurological strengths, without overplaying them.
Fuel psychological safety by creating caring & stable connections, even if dealing with difficult people.
Make a sustainable positive difference for others, without burning out from painful fatigue.
Build grit and determination to keep starting and growing, so self-doubt doesn’t keep you stuck.
Maximise energy by eating, moving, and recovering wisely, even when life feels busy.
Depending on our values and goals, different numbers and profiles are best for different people. What matters is the ability to easily gather and understand this dashboard of wellbeing data and continue learning and prioritising the next actions.
We don’t just help you measure wellbeing: that only leads to more evaluation fatigue. Instead, we’ve done the hard work of translating the latest science into an actionable and impactful tool.
It takes less than five minutes to complete the evaluation, and it can be done on a mobile phone, iPad, laptop, or computer. Most importantly, everyone’s data and results are completely confidential and for their eyes only.
Everyone immediately receives their personal results in an easy-to-read report packed with actionable insights. Each person also receives everything they need to design their own easy-to-action wellbeing plan. No leader degree needed.
Everything, from the questions and results to the reports, guides and additional resources, has been designed through a strengths lens that normalises struggle and places an evidence-based wellbeing toolbox at people’s fingertips. We work with the world’s leading wellbeing researchers to continuously test the evaluation tool to ensure its reliability and validity.
Done for you reports and aggregated de-identified .csv files assessing wellbeing at the “Me”, “We”, and “Us” levels for teams and workplaces are available as soon as people’s data has been gathered. There are no drawn-out delays to analyse the data.
Our evaluation debriefing service helps individuals, leaders, and organisations interpret their results and take action. Our ongoing coaching sessions and wellbeing training programs are available to support positive action.
Evaluation data is only as good as the actionable insights it delivers. To provide timely and reliable wellbeing data, the PERMA+ Wellbeing Evaluation measures:
Understand how and where to prioritise your wellbeing efforts and investments with this simple but powerful snapshot that shows you the levels of thriving and struggle across your teams and workplaces.
Explore the impact people’s levels of wellbeing may be having on engagement, performance, and satisfaction in your workplace.
Evaluate the effectiveness of your efforts and investments to help care for wellbeing in your workplace, including confidence, willingness, and support.
Understand the strengths of current individual (“Me”), leader and team (“We”), and workplace (“Us”) actions to care for wellbeing and identify the potential risks or gaps that need to be addressed.
Understand the strengths of your workplace culture to support people’s psychological needs for belonging, mastery, autonomy, job resources, and meaning, and identify the potential risks or gaps that need to be addressed. The top three wellbeing struggles being experienced, the biggest barriers to caring for wellbeing, the people we turn to for help, and the most valued forms of workplace wellbeing support are also available to support positive action.
A growing list of countries are advocating, and in some cases (such as Australia) regulating, for workplaces to measure and minimise psychosocial (mental and social) hazards related to people’s work. To help we have two optional sets of questions and done-for-you reports that workplaces can add to the PERMA+ Wellbeing Evaluation if needed.
Frequency and effectiveness data is reported back to leaders for the teams for each hazard and the levels of psychological safety in the individual (“Me”), leader and team (“We”), and workplace (“Us”).
After all, while safety is a workplace requirement, studies continue to find that care is a business imperative.
The done-for-you individual, team, and workplace reports provided by the PERMA+ Wellbeing Evaluation are packed with actionable insights and tiny evidence-based practices that can be immediately applied. In addition, our workplace wellbeing coaches are always available to dive a little deeper.
Just for yourself, or for anyone in your team or workforce these 30-minute one-on-one coaching conversations go behind the numbers to help people prioritise what will have the most immediate impact when it comes to caring for their wellbeing. A safe space to ask any question or request further resources, this is a simple, affordable way to provide additional support.
Take accountability to the next level with the series of 4 x 60-minute one-on-one coaching conversations to help set clear wellbeing goals and design tiny wellbeing habits that will be filled into even the busiest of days. Experiment, adjust, and build the confidence and motivation it takes to care for wellbeing as the world around us keeps changing.
Whether it is for the whole team, your whole workplace, or just a leadership group, these 60–90 minute coaching conversations highlight the wellbeing strengths and challenges to identify the evidence-based wellbeing changes that are likely to have the biggest business impact. Engaging, educational, and energising live premise data has never been this much fun before this session is designed to help you turn insights into action.
Be it for leaders, teams, or wellbeing champions we provide one-on-one, triad, and group coaching to help amplify the ability to care for wellbeing across your workplace. We tailor the duration and number of coaching conversations to your context and provide quotes for you to share across your workplace as part of the coaching process.
Visit our offerings page to explore editions, Power-Ups and plans, or book a call with our team to talk through what a measurement program could look like for your workplace.