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Designing Workplace Wellbeing Programs People Use

Design a wellbeing program employees choose voluntarily and managers can sustain.

Cohort6 weeks3 hours per weekCertificate

Who this is for

  • HR and people leaders
  • Occupational health teams
  • Program managers accountable for participation

Prerequisites: Access to a real or planned program to work on during the course.

What you will be able to do

  1. 01

    Diagnose why an existing program is under-used

  2. 02

    Design for voluntary participation instead of mandates

  3. 03

    Select measures leadership will accept

  4. 04

    Build a manager-support plan that survives quarter changes

Module preview

  1. 01

    Orient: why programs fail quietly

    Participation data and root causes.

  2. 02

    Learn: program architecture

    Offer design, access, and incentives.

  3. 03

    Notice: the manager layer

    Case observation of enabling and blocking behavior.

  4. 04

    Practice: design your program

    Build the plan you will actually run.

  5. 05

    Receive feedback: peer and faculty review

    Structured critique against a rubric.

  6. 06

    Demonstrate: leadership brief

    Present the program case and measures.

Practice and assessment

You leave with a complete program plan and a leadership brief.

Instructor

Dana Whitfield

Faculty, workforce wellbeing

Fifteen years building employee health programs across health systems and manufacturing.

Credential

Certificate of completion. Available as a team enrollment.