Engaging Managers In Workplace Wellbeing

Managers play a central role in successful workplace wellness initiatives. Unfortunately, employers struggle getting managers to embrace their role in fostering the wellbeing of direct reports, which significantly diminishes  workplace wellness programs’ ability to achieve their full potential. 

In this podcast, Scott Behson, a professor of management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, discusses the role of managers in shaping workplace wellness initiatives and provides strategies for engaging, training and holding managers accountable to support wellbeing initiatives, including:

• The central role of managers in workplace wellness 
• How manager disengagement hinders wellness initiatives
• How CEOs can ensure managers support employee wellness
• How employee feedback improves wellness initiatives
• Examples of companies who’ve achieved manager buy-in 

Scott is a speaker, consultant and the author of The Whole-Person Workplace: Building Better Workplaces Through Work-Life, Wellness and Employee Support. He’s been featured at the UN’s International Day of the Family and the White House’s Summit for Working Families and appeared in Harvard Business Review, Time, Fast Company, NBC, CBS, NPR, and Bloomberg Radio.