Wellness Starts Here
with your Part-Time Chief Wellness Officer
Wellness Starts Here
with your Part-Time Chief Wellness Officer
Hire a Fractional Chief Wellness Officer
Fractional CWO, a Pollack Peacebuilding Company, offers fractional or part-time Chief Wellness Officers (CWOs), also called Chief Wellbeing Officers. With a focus on preventing burnout, increasing employee health and happiness, and turning conflicts into opportunities, a Chief Wellness Officer is uniquely positioned as a senior executive wholly focused on elevating employee wellbeing while tracking ROI on wellness initiatives across various metrics.
What is a Chief Wellness Officer?
There’s a growing trend toward utilizing the skills of a Chief Wellness Officer, a senior leader who aims to enhance employee wellness throughout companies of all sizes. The CWO meets with individual employees to help assess wellness and also works with senior leadership to establish initiatives that encourage wellbeing among staff while paying attention to budget and ROI.
The CWO observes and tracks productivity, burnout and turnover among employees, and is responsible for insuring that employee wellness is optimized and supported. CWOs work with leaders at the senior level to improve employee wellness strategically especially during disruptive organizational change. As strategies are put into place, the CWO provides key metrics to show that individuals are feeling better and that this has a positive effect on the effectiveness and the bottom line of the organization.
Why Your Company Should Consider Hiring a Chief Wellness Officer
Burnout and stress are at an all-time high and continue to rise among people of every profession. This means any company that aspires to keep employees happy needs a senior leader with the experience, talent and skills to tune into the strategies that are required to enhance employee health. As many as sixty percent of staff members are experiencing severe stress that’s work-related. Signs of burnout include:
- Physical fatigue
- Low energy
- Motivation issues
- Lack of interest in work
Most employees are juggling both work and family responsibilities which may increase stress levels. When the individuals that make up the company are burnt out, it affects the productivity, innovation and bottom line of the organization. When organizations aspire to a culture that prioritizes health and happiness, there needs to be a senior leader who is focused on employee wellbeing. More and more companies are solving this challenge by hiring a CWO.
Without anyone in senior leadership committed to improving employee health and well-being, strategies and intentions aren’t likely to be achieved. A CWO prioritizes focus on employee heath and happiness and creates actionable strategies to support and improve employee wellbeing, with no other competing priorities. This is why it's so important to have an executive that owns these initiatives.
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When Is It Time For an Outsourced Chief Wellness Officer?
The mental and emotional health of your employees is essential since it helps them remain happy, productive members of the team. If you feel the mental health and wellness of your employees is waning, outsourcing a Chief Wellness Officer (CWO) could be the perfect solution. This type of professional is brought on to oversee and maintain workplaces where the wellness of team members is prioritized and supported. Below are common signs indicating that now is the ideal time to hire a CWO.
No Senior Executive Owns the Wellness Initiative
If your company’s wellness program isn’t owned by you or anyone else on the senior management level, it may be time to bring on a CWO. It's understandable that no one currently owns this area, since everyone typically has a long list of to-dos every day and monitoring the mental health and wellness of team members is not necessarily a priority. Rather than trying to juggle the wellness initiative in your workplace or asking fellow supervisors to take it on, hire a Chief Wellness Officer.
A qualified CWO has the experience and knowledge to review and reinvigrate the current initiatives, provide suggestions, and implement strategies that benefit the entire team. For example, say your current “Mental Health Monday” program has stagnated because employees feel it isn’t relevant to their needs. The CWO might rework the program to make it applicable to your team, such as gathering information to really understand what would make this program more pragmatic.
You Aren’t Entirely Sure How Wellness Levels Are Impacting Performance Outcomes
With so much to do every day, it can be challenging to determine how employee wellness levels are affecting their work performances. The bigger the company, the more difficult this becomes, especially if employees work in groups and their individual contributions are not necessarily clear. Your outsourced Chief Wellness Officer knows how to track employee well-being and happiness, and compare it to their production level.
How the wellness executive goes about this depends on what methods are most appropriate in your organization. These may include surveys, observations, or interviews, which expose data that can compare their current wellness level to their most recent or overall performance. An employee who feels burnt out or disengaged is probably not going to perform at the same level as a team member who feel inspired and invigorated.
You Do Not Have Clear Wellness Initiatives or Understand How Those Initiatives Are Utilized By Staff
Perhaps the wellness initiatives at your workplace have stalled or the program details remain unclear to everyone involved. Maybe you still don’t understand how the initiatives are put into use by the team, which is understandable since no one is really tracking this yet. An experienced CWO clarifies how the current programs are being utilized and what the human capital return on these programs are. By establishing programs that can track back to ROI, your employees will not only feel more well, your company will better understand how wellness positively impacts the bottom line.