THRIVE@WORK: Training programme for well-being at work for HR managers that want their organisations to thrive

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, workplace well-being constituted one of the most significant topics in professional and academic contexts. Employees have experienced an extreme disruption, leading to...

While many organisations already had good practices in place, the incorporation of well-being strategies in Human Resource policies was not widespread across companies. Thus, our objective was to enhance employees’ well-being, while simultaneously improving individual and company productivity and performance, fostering economic growth at both national and EU levels, through embracing new strategies emerged after the pandemic’s outbreak. The project aimed to address the interrelated issues of well-being, work-life balance and burnout, through a thorough and systematic approach, providing practical recommendations and solutions for businesses and organisations that aim to prosper and grow. Consequently, our goal was to enable HR professionals, managers and leaders to acquire new knowledge, skills and competencies in this rapidly changing world of work, through continuous education and training. Our project focused on enhancing employees’ well-being as well as the quality of their personal and professional life, through empowering company leaders to acknowledge the benefits of investing in well-being programmes and of maintaining employees’ well-being, mental health and happiness, considering it as a priority rather than a luxury.

Throughout the whole project implementation, the following main activities were carried out: -Exploratory secondary and primary research through online surveys with HR Managers/in-company VET trainers to delineate the current state-of-the-art. -Analysis of collected data to develop an EU Handbook, publicly available on the project’s website, summarising key findings on well-being programmes. -Development of the Training and Mentoring Programme, addressing the training needs of HR professionals/in-company VET providers in well-being and well-being programmes. -Train-the-Trainers workshop to exchange knowledge among partners and clarify important issues, before conducting the national pilot trainings. -Pilot workshops with the participation of 95 HR Professionals/Managers/CEOs who experienced informative and interactive training on well-being programmes’ implementation and provided us with feedback to refine and finalise the training programme. -Feedback on the training and mentoring programme from the National Advisory Boards in each partner country. -Development of the Online Training Platform for sharing the training programme, activities, news and articles, to foster knowledge exchange among HR Professionals and VET providers.

Resources and practical tools were developed as follows: 1. Primary and secondary research to extract key findings, resulting in the development of a Practical EU Handbook (PR1) for HR professionals which emphasised the importance of carefully designing and implementing well-being programmes to foster a positive organisational culture. Targeting HR professionals, VET trainers, CEOs, etc., the handbook was made publicly available through the project’s website. 2. The Handbook served as the basis for developing the THRIVE@WORK Training and Mentoring Programme (PR2), through joint efforts among the consortium, based on the expertise of each partner. The training and mentoring programme aimed to provide the target group with the required expertise to design effective well-being programmes, as well as to encourage them to educate and guide their colleagues and superiors on essential well-being principles and practices. 3. Design and development of the THRIVE@WORK Online Training Platform (PR3), providing the whole content of the training and mentoring programme, along with various activities and quizzes, for free (PR3). Anyone interested in following this learning path can do it even after the project’s completion.